A College of Their Own records 1986-1998.

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A College of Their Own records 1986-1998.

The A College of Their Own Records contain materials related to the production of the documentary on women's colleges and the affiliation of Mundelein College with Loyola University Chicago. The items include copies of the documentary, the master tapes used to create the documentary, research files, funding proposals, and scripts. The records are arranged alphabetically within each series.

8.25 linear feet.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7946386

Cudahy Library

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Loyola University of Chicago. Women and Leadership Archives.

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Loyola University Chicago

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The St. Ignatius College Jesuit Community was established in 1857 by Father Arnold Damen, S.J. The name changed to the Loyola Jesuit Community following the re-chartering of St. Ignatius College as Loyola University in 1909. From the description of Litterae Annuae et Historia Domus Universitatis Loyolaeae (Collegii St. Ignatii) Chicagiensis, 1920-1943. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 771916724 ...

Bren Ortega Murphy.

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In 1991, Mundelein College, the last women's college in Illinois, affiliated with Loyola University Chicago. The following year, faculty from the Communications Departments of both schools decided to make a documentary about the affiliation and the issues surrounding women's education. Bren Ortega Murphy, Jeffery Harder, Mary Pat Haley, BVM, and Mary Alma Sullivan, BVM, researched women's colleges and women's education in the United States and interviewed administrators, faculty members, and stu...

Mundelein College

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Women's Catholic College established by the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virigin Mary (BVMs) in 1930; merged with Loyola University Chicago in 1991; the final Mundelein graduation took place in 1993. Mundelein was the first self-contained skyscraper college for women in the world and the last four-year women's college in Illinois at the time of its affiliation with Loyola. The official groundbreaking for the school occured on November 1, 1929, just days after the stock market crashed. The b...