Download or read book Catholic Women s Colleges in America written by Tracy Schier and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003-05-22 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 150 colleges in the United States were founded by nuns, and over time they have served many constituencies, setting some educational trends while reflecting others. In Catholic Women's Colleges in America, Tracy Schier, Cynthia Russett, and their coauthors provide a comprehensive history of these institutions and how they met the challenges of broader educational change. The authors explore how and for whom the colleges were founded and the role of Catholic nuns in their founding and development. They examine the roots of the founders' spirituality and education; they discuss curricula, administration, and student life. And they describe the changes prompted by both the church and society beginning in the 1960s, when decreasing enrollments led some colleges to opt for coeducation, while others restructured their curricula, partnered with other Catholic colleges, developed specialized programs, or sought to broaden their base of funding. Contributors: Dorothy M. Brown, Georgetown University; David R. Contosta, Chestnut Hill College; Jill Ker Conway, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Carol Hurd Green, Boston College; Monika K. Hellwig, Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities; Karen Kennelly, president emerita of Mount Saint Mary's College, Los Angeles; Jeanne Knoerle, president emerita of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College; Thomas M. Landy, College of the Holy Cross; Kathleen A. Mahoney, Humanitas Foundation; Melanie M. Morey, Leadership and Legacy Associates, Boston; Mary J. Oates, Regis College; Jane C. Redmont, Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley; Cynthia Russett, Yale University; Tracy Schier, Boston College.
Download or read book Women s Colleges in the United States written by Irene Harwarth and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women's colleges have had a long and prestigious role in the education of American women. This volume offers insights into the continuing significant role of women's colleges in higher education. It provides a brief history of women's colleges in the U.S. in the context of social and legislative issues that have affected the country, examines how women's colleges have managed to survive in an era of coeducational institutions and equal opportunities in education, and identifies the unique features of women's colleges that make them attractive to young women. Charts and tables. Extensive bibliography.
Download or read book Social Living in Catholic Four Year Colleges for Women written by Anna Hazel Shinn and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catholic Women s Colleges and Social Life written by James Michael Lee and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Status of Freshman English in Selected Catholic Women s Colleges written by Mary John Francis Schuh and published by . This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Study of Social Living in Catholic Women s Colleges in the United States written by Anna Hazel Shinn and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Challenged by Coeducation written by Susan L. Poulson and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenged by Coeducation details the responses of women's colleges to the most recent wave of Women's colleges originated in the mid-nineteenth century as a response to women's exclusion from higher education. Women's academic successes and their persistent struggles to enter men's colleges resulted in coeducation rapidly becoming the norm, however. Still, many prestigious institutions remained single-sex, notably most of the Ivy League and all of the Seven Sisters colleges. In the mid-twentieth century colleges' concerns about finances and enrollments, as well as ideological pressures to integrate formerly separate social groups, led men's colleges, and some women's colleges, to become coeducational. The admission of women to practically all men's colleges created a serious challenge for women's colleges. Most people no longer believed women's colleges were necessary since women had virtually unlimited access to higher education. Even though research spawned by the women's movement indicated the benefits to women of a "room of their own," few young women remained interested in applying to women's colleges. Challenged by Coeducation details the responses of women's colleges to this latest wave of coeducation. Case studies written expressly for this volume include many types of women's colleges-Catholic and secular; Seven Sisters and less prestigious; private and state; liberal arts and more applied; northern, southern, and western; urban and rural; independent and coordinated with a coeducational institution. They demonstrate the principal ways women's colleges have adapted to the new coeducational era: some have been taken over or closed, but most have changed by admitting men and thereby becoming coeducational, or by offering new programs to different populations. Some women's colleges, mostly those that are in cities, connected to other colleges, and prestigious with a high endowment, still enjoy success. Despite their dramatic drop in numbers, from 250 to fewer than 60 today, women's colleges are still important, editors Miller-Bernal and Poulson argue. With their commitment to enhancing women's lives, women's colleges and formerly women's colleges can serve as models of egalitarian coeducation.
Download or read book Different Destinies written by Kathryn Louise Oakley and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Catholic Colleges for Women in the United States of America written by Sister Mary Mariella Bowler and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Status of Religion in Catholic Women s Colleges written by Sister Joseph Aloysius Geissert and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Advisory Board in Four year Catholic Women s Colleges in the United States 1964 written by Mary Martin Fitzpatrick and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Educational Research Monographs written by Catholic University of America and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Endowment and the Catholic Women s Colleges written by M. Francesca Brownlee and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Study of Play Selection in Catholic Women s Colleges in the United States written by Bernardine M. McNeany and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Liberating Sanctuary written by Jane Lamm Carroll and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred years ago, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet founded a college designed to unite women’s intellectual and spiritual development: The College of St. Catherine, now St. Catherine’s University. Is such an institution, a women-built and women-led Catholic college, an anachronism today? How has a century of changes in the Catholic Church and women’s roles affected St. Catherine’s? Addressing these and other questions in a scholarly and engaging manner, Liberating Sanctuary: 100 Years of Women’s Education at the College of St. Catherine challenges prevailing assumptions about the history of women’s education. The essays in this book, edited by Jane Lamm Carroll, Joanne Cavallaro, and Sharon Doherty, examine key figures, decisions, and ideas over the College's 100 year history, linking the story through a central theme: the paradox of institutional goals that seek both to liberate and constrain women. Since its founding, St. Catherine's has promoted women's leadership and autonomy, sometimes by design, sometimes by accident, sometimes despite stated aims.
Download or read book An Evaluation and Exposition of Speech and Drama in Catholic Women s Colleges in the United States written by Mary Marguerite Butler and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pursuing Truth written by Mary J. Oates and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Pursuing Truth, Mary J. Oates explores the roles that religious women played in teaching generations of college and university students amid slow societal change that brought the grudging acceptance of Catholics in public life. Across the twentieth century, Catholic women's colleges modeled themselves on, and sometimes positioned themselves against, elite secular colleges. Oates describes these critical pedagogical practices by focusing on Notre Dame of Maryland University, formerly known as the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, the first Catholic college in the United States to award female students four-year degrees. The sisters and laywomen on the faculty and in the administration at Notre Dame of Maryland persevered in their work while facing challenges from the establishment of the Catholic Church, mainline Protestant churches, and secular institutions. Pursuing Truth presents the stories of the institution's female founders, administrators, and professors whose labors led it through phases of diversification. The pattern of institutional development regarding the place of religious identity, gender and sexuality, and race that Oates finds at Notre Dame of Maryland is a paradigmatic story of change in US higher education. Similarly representative is her account of the school's effort, from the late 1960s to the present, to maintain its identity as a women's liberal arts college. Thanks to generous funding from the Cushwa Center at the University of Notre Dame, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access (OA) volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other Open Access repositories.
