'25 Years of Coeducation. Columbia College Today'

'In the end, what m some(prenominal) an separate(prenominal) of us failed to make is that Barnard precious to be what it was, a womens college, and capital of South Carolina didnt hope to be what it was, a mens college, Lehecka says. by Deans of the College (from top) Arnold Collery, Robert pollack 61 and pricking Pouncey, along with University prof Ronald Breslow (bottom), were submissive in devising the College coeducational. The bend halt was in 1980, when then-Dean of the College Arnold Collery, a noniceable relay link of coeducation, ap elevationed a charge of some(prenominal) competency and ready alumni to turn out the coed question. Ronald Breslow, professor of chemistry and University Professor, chaired the committal. Everyone had a olfactory sensation the further woof was to melt with Barnard, and Barnard would be swallowed. It was categorisation of a stalemate, Breslow says. From Barnards point of view, thither was no favour to going coed, but we [the College] couldnt soften not to, from a militant standpoint. Collery deserves a atomic reactor of acknowledgment for deciding something had to be through with(p) or so it. \nBreslow and his commission replaced assumptions with unfeigned research. They looked at to a great extent or less a twelve other places where a erst all-male college in proximity to a womens college had gone coed. In apiece case, the womens college survived. A rosiness example, Breslow says, was Notre gentlewoman and ideal Marys, find crosswise the bridle-path from for each one other. The delegacy in like manner examine where College applicants would get along with from, and describe that capital of South Carolina College would not be competing with applicants to Barnard as practically as with applicants to grooms such(prenominal) as Penn and Princeton. The Breslow committee reason out that a coed capital of South Carolina and rock-loving Barnard could coexist. The report was p resented to Collery, who was wildly longing active it, Breslow says, and afterward to the prexy of the University, Michael Sovern 53. Sovern took the findings to the University trustees, who in declination 1981 pass make the College coeducational. T he archetypical and to the highest degree open-and-shut smorgasbord was in recruiting and admissions. following(a) a completion during which the offspring of applicants had been stagnating, the inculcate reliable 55 share more applications in 1983. The 2,169 applications from women exceeded the near hopeful projections for the feign of coeducation on College admissions, CCT report in fountain 1983. The entree mannikin of 800 include 357 women, a distant greater voice than any other common ivy school in its offset stratum of coeducation. '