Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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The Vassar Miscellany
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 474
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The Vassar Miscellany Monthly
Author: Life and Writings of Henry David Thoreau
Author: Henry Stephens SaltLife of Henry David Thoreau
Author: Henry S. SaltPublisher: London W. Scott 1896.
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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"Keep the Damned Women Out"
Author: Nancy Weiss MalkielPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 069118111X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
A groundbreaking history of how elite colleges and universities in America and Britain finally went coed As the tumultuous decade of the 1960s ended, a number of very traditional, very conservative, highly prestigious colleges and universities in the United States and the United Kingdom decided to go coed, seemingly all at once, in a remarkably brief span of time. Coeducation met with fierce resistance. As one alumnus put it in a letter to his alma mater, "Keep the damned women out." Focusing on the complexities of institutional decision making, this book tells the story of this momentous era in higher education—revealing how coeducation was achieved not by organized efforts of women activists, but through strategic decisions made by powerful men. In America, Ivy League schools like Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth began to admit women; in Britain, several of the men's colleges at Cambridge and Oxford did the same. What prompted such fundamental change? How was coeducation accomplished in the face of such strong opposition? How well was it implemented? Nancy Weiss Malkiel explains that elite institutions embarked on coeducation not as a moral imperative but as a self-interested means of maintaining a first-rate applicant pool. She explores the challenges of planning for the academic and non-academic lives of newly admitted women, and shows how, with the exception of Mary Ingraham Bunting at Radcliffe, every decision maker leading the charge for coeducation was male. Drawing on unprecedented archival research, “Keep the Damned Women Out” is a breathtaking work of scholarship that is certain to be the definitive book on the subject.
Life of henry David Thoreau
Author: Equivalence
Author: Amanda L. GolbeckPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1351751913
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 563
Book Description
Equivalence: Elizabeth L. Scott at Berkeley is the compelling story of one pioneering statistician’s relentless twenty-year effort to promote the status of women in academe and science. Part biography and part microhistory, the book provides the context and background to understand Scott’s masterfulness at using statistics to help solve societal problems. In addition to being one of the first researchers to work at the interface of astronomy and statistics and an early practitioner of statistics using high-speed computers, Scott worked on an impressively broad range of questions in science, from whether cloud seeding actually works to whether ozone depletion causes skin cancer. Later in her career, Scott became swept up in the academic women’s movement. She used her well-developed scientific research skills together with the advocacy skills she had honed, in such activities as raising funds for Martin Luther King Jr. and keeping Free Speech Movement students out of jail, toward policy making that would improve the condition of the academic workforce for women. The book invites the reader into Scott’s universe, a window of inspiration made possible by the fact that she saved and dated every piece of paper that came across her desk.
Documents of the Senate of the State of New York
Author: New York (State). Legislature. SenatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 1538
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John McAndrew's Modernist Vision
Author: Mardges BaconPublisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1616897864
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
John McAndrew's Modernist Vision tells the compelling story of the architect, scholar, and curator John McAndrew, who played a key role in redefining modernism in the United States from the 1930s onward. The designer of the Vassar College Art Library—arguably the first modern interior on a college campus—and the curator of architecture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York from 1937 to 1941, McAndrew was instrumental in creating a distinct and innovative aesthetic that bridged the European modernist lineage and American regional vernacular. Providing a fascinating glimpse into McAndrew's life, his associations with important architects and artists, and the historical context that shaped his work, this book is a thoroughly researched testament to a man who left a powerful mark on the evolution of American architecture.
Higher Education for Girls in North American College Fiction 1886-1912
Author: Gunilla LindgrenPublisher: Coronet Books
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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