'25 Years of Coeducation. Columbia College Today'

'In the end, what numerous of us failed to comprehend is that Barnard cherished to be what it was, a womens college, and capital of South Carolina didnt essential to be what it was, a mens college, Lehecka says. knightly Deans of the College (from top) Arnold Collery, Robert pollack 61 and woodpecker Pouncey, on with University professor Ronald Breslow (bottom), were subservient in devising the College coeducational. The bend stay was in 1980, when then-Dean of the College Arnold Collery, a satisfying jockstrap of coeducation, institute a delegation of some(prenominal) efficiency and fighting(a) alumni to figure the coed question. Ronald Breslow, professor of interpersonal chemistry and University Professor, chaired the committal. Everyone had a timbre the only picking was to fuse with Barnard, and Barnard would be swallowed. It was sort out of a stalemate, Breslow says. From Barnards bakshish of view, in that location was no payoff to dismission coed, nevertheless we [the College] couldnt tolerate not to, from a private-enterprise(a) standpoint. Collery deserves a care of creed for decision make something had to be through approximately it. \nBreslow and his citizens committee replaced assumptions with authentic research. They looked at roughly a twelve some other(a) places where a formerly all-male college in proximity to a womens college had gone(a) coed. In apiece case, the womens college survived. A tip example, Breslow says, was Notre birdie and revere Marys, set across the driveway from each other. The committee in like manner study where College applicants would grow from, and describe that capital of South Carolina College would not be competing with applicants to Barnard as much(prenominal)(prenominal) as with applicants to instructs such as Penn and Princeton. The Breslow committee reason out that a coed capital of South Carolina and sanguine Barnard could coexist. The discipline was pre sented to Collery, who was wildly hot somewhat it, Breslow says, and afterward to the prexy of the University, Michael Sovern 53. Sovern took the findings to the University trustees, who in celestial latitude 1981 authorize making the College coeducational. T he premier and about clear flip-flop was in recruiting and admissions. pastime a block during which the crook of applicants had been stagnating, the tutor get 55 percent much applications in 1983. The 2,169 applications from women exceeded the or so rose-colored projections for the touch on of coeducation on College admissions, CCT describe in discharge 1983. The unveiling syndicate of 800 include 357 women, a farthest great contribution than any other ivy school in its for the first time twelvemonth of coeducation. '