Records of Office on the Education of Women, 1968-1995 (inclusive).

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Records of Office on the Education of Women, 1968-1995 (inclusive).

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The records of Office on the Education of Women (formerly the Coeducation Office) document all aspects of Yale University's transition to undergraduate coeducation, as well as the status of women at Yale and women in academe. Planning for incorporating women in Yale College and the residential colleges, admissions, and the first undergraduate female students are particularly well documented. The records include correspondence, memoranda, reports, meeting agendas and minutes, admission applications and other student data, and printed articles and news clippings, primarily maintained by the Special Assistant to the President on the Education of Women.

21.5 linear feet (51 boxes)

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Yale University. President's Office.

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Arthur Twining Hadley was born in New Haven, Connecticut on April 23, 1856. He graduated from Yale in 1876, and pursued graduate studies in political economy at the University of Berlin. In 1879 Hadley returned to Yale and worked as a tutor in Greek, logic, Roman law, and German until 1883. From 1883 until 1886 Hadley served as an instructor in political science under William Graham Sumner. In 1886 he accepted a newly created professorship in political science and, in 1891, went on to accept a p...

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Yale president, Kingman Brewster, announced in 1968 that Yale would admit 500 women into Yale College in the following Fall. Coeducation impacted all aspects of undergraduate life at Yale. Services and regulations were examined and changed as necessary and new services and programs were created, such as gynecological services, sex counseling, and courses on human sexuality. Coeducation brought other women's issues, including women faculty and women's studies, to the forefront as well. Brewster a...

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Arnstein, Mary.

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Wasserman, Elga

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A graduate of Smith College, Elga Wasserman earned a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Harvard University (1949) and a J.D. from Yale Law School (1976). Married in 1947 to fellow chemist Harry Wasserman, the couple moved to Yale where she worked as a research assistant. They had three children and Wasserman worked part time for local community colleges and industrial firms. She became assistant dean overseeing Yale's graduate science programs and later oversaw the advent of coeducation at Yale (19...

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