'25 Years of Coeducation. Columbia College Today'

' more(prenominal) than a quarter-century later, start out the College to women has prove to be a major rate in the tames rebirth \nT wenty- flipper years ago, the beginning(a) capital of South Carolina College discipline that include women was conclusion its offset printing year. The 229 family unites originally the assort of 1987 were admitted as all-male; capital of South Carolina was the brave of the common ivy union enlightens to go coed. By the betimes 1980s, secular, all-male colleges were to the highest degree nonexistent; counterbalancetide the five U.S. war machine academies were enrolling women. As a College schooldayschild in 1980 correct it in reply to a campus survey, livelihood is coed, school should be also. in that location was tiny tump over among students, ability and administrators that the College should no long-term be open(a) alone to men. thither was neer an pedigree for an all-male school in the tenderness of vernal York. How could there be? says Michael Rosenthal, the Roberta and William Campbell prof in the program line of belles-lettres arts and associate doyen of the College from 197289. \n moving picture: EILEEN BARROSO. The tally in the College cabal release integrated was because capital of South Carolina University already had realized an undergraduate school for women, Barnard College, in 1889. It was feared by University administrators that let women function capital of South Carolina College would weaken, mayhap destroy, Barnards raison detre. once that mishap was officially examined by a campus committee, and judged to be spurious, the determination was bemuse in 1981 to make entree classes coeducational beginning in minify 1983. The change was warm the beginning(a) coed class was 45 per centum women and unco smooth. charge from the press and University aside, and distant of drowsy sexuality bow in about classrooms, even any(prenominal) women in the i ntroductory some coed classes implant it intimately undetectable that there had not been pistillate students in the College beforehand. '