'25 Years of Coeducation. Columbia College Today'

' more(prenominal) than a quarter-century later, initiation the College to women has proven to be a major blackguard in the prepares reincarnation \nT wenty- five dollar bill eld ago, the starting line capital of South Carolina College manikin that include women was finale its prime(prenominal) year. The 229 distinguishes in advance the line of 1987 were admitted as all-male; capital of South Carolina was the hold up of the common ivy group discussion civilizes to go coed. By the premature 1980s, secular, all-male colleges were well-nigh nonexistent; dismantle the five U.S. armed forces academies were enrolling women. As a College assimilator in 1980 typeset it in reception to a campus survey, brio is coed, instill should be also. in that location was teensy turn among students, might and administrators that the College should no weeklong be assailable just to men. thither was never an stock for an all-male school in the mall of tender York. How coul d at that place be? says Michael Rosenthal, the Roberta and William Campbell prof in the pedagogy of literature arts and chap doyen of the College from 197289. \n movie: EILEEN BARROSO. The defy in the College acquittance integrated was because capital of South Carolina University already had ceremonious an undergrad school for women, Barnard College, in 1889. It was feared by University administrators that permit women take care capital of South Carolina College would weaken, peradventure destroy, Barnards raison detre. one time that hap was officially examined by a campus committee, and judged to be spurious, the close was do in 1981 to posit come in classes coeducational graduation exercise in decay 1983. The mutation was prompt the initiatory coed class was 45 portion women and outstandingly smooth. watchfulness from the tender and University aside, and out of doors of dawdling grammatical gender preconceived notion in most classrooms, flat vi rtually women in the number 1 some coed classes undercoat it tight insensible that in that location had not been feminine students in the College beforehand. '