Word: coeducationalize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"The first thing to try was to create one coeducational institution like Harvard/Radeliffe," Collery said. A year and a half of negotiations between Columbia and Barnard attempted to create what Sovern called "de facto" coeducation by increased cooperation between the two schools, the Times article said.
All five are survivors of the 1960s sexual revolution in education, which was powered by the women's movement and the notion that coeducation provides a more "natural" setting for learning. One male bastion after another opened its doors to female students: Yale, Dartmouth, Princeton, eventually even West Point...
Despite their apparent comeback, debate on whether or not to admit women continues, though less hotly at the two military schools. There, cadets tend to agree with a vehement V.M.I, official: "There is no such thing as a Sister Rat, and there never could be." At the other schools, opinion...
John D. Barnwell, resident tutor in Physics, who is arranging the celebration, said Currier's diversity is outstanding because House residents "have dealt with many issues Harvard met in the 1970s," including coeducation and an increasing number of Black and Third World students--issues to be discussed at anniversary seminars...
The day after the faculty approved formation of the coeducation committee, Alvin Paul, Columbia's director of physical education and intercollegiate athletics, warned that coeducation could result in severe cuts in men's sports programs.