May 11, 2016

Why Have Women’s Colleges Gone Coed?

  Today I am visiting Chatham University (PA), a small school, formerly all-female for undergraduate education, that completed its first year as a coeducational institution. This has not been an uncommon transition for women’s colleges. Connecticut College, which I visited about three weeks ago, went through it in 1970. So […]
December 3, 2015

My Time on Campus: Barnard College

At the beginning of November I took the train to New York City to attend an Open House at Barnard College, one of the Five Sisters among the leading woman’s colleges in the U.S. Barnard is also the only one of the five–the others are Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Smith […]