Coeducation at Lehigh: Coeducation at Lehigh: Resources

Lehigh Alumni Bulletin, February 1965.

Lehigh Alumni Bulletin, Spring 1981.

Lehigh Alumni Bulletin, Fall 1981.

Kast was one of the first women received a graduate degree from Lehigh on October 8, 1921.

Doctoral dissertation. Carnegie Melon University, 2005.

This book exposes the complexity of single-sex schooling, and sheds new light on how gender operates in policy and practice in education. The essays collected in this volume cover a wide range of institutions, including K-12 and higher education, public and private schools, and schools in the US and beyond.

In the nineteenth century, women's colleges provided many women with access to higher education, yet Susan B. Anthony and other women connected to the women's rights movement favored coeducation. In the late twentieth century, at a time that many single-sex institutions became coeducational, research has indicated the benefits for women of single-sex education. Separate by Degree compares the experiences of women students, in the past as well as in contemporary times...

Includes an essay by Mary Frances Donley Forcier. "'Men of Dartmouth' and 'The Lady Engineers': Coeducation at Dartmouth College and Lehigh University."

A groundbreaking history of how elite colleges and universities in America and Britain finally went coed As the tumultuous decade of the 1960s ended, a number of very traditional, very conservative, highly prestigious colleges and universities in the United States and the United Kingdom decided to go coed, seemingly all at once, in a remarkably brief span of time. Coeducation met with fierce resistance. As one alumnus put it in a letter to his alma mater, "Keep the damned women out."