%0 Book %1 harwarth_womens_1997 %A Harwarth, Irene %A Maline, Mindi %A DeBra, Elizabeth %C Washingnton, DC %D 1997 %I National Institute on Postsecondary Education, Libraries, and Lifelong Learning %K (Academic), Assessment, Choice, Coeducation, College Colleges, Degrees Education, Educational Enrollment Faculty, Females, Higher History, Legal Models, Outcomes Patterns, Problems, Public Role Sex Single Sociocultural Students, Studies Trends, Undergraduate Women Womens education, %T Women's Colleges in the United States: History, Issues, and Challenges. %U http://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED409815 %X \textbarThis book examines the role of women's colleges in the United States from the early 1800s to the present. It reviews how they began, how they changed as more colleges became coeducational, and the legality of publically supported single-sex colleges. The book also looks at what women's colleges are like today and examines differences in institutional effects for students who choose to attend women's colleges versus those who attend coeducational institutions. The four chapters, written by different authors, are titled: (1) "Women's Colleges in the United States, A Historical Context" (Elizabeth DeBra); (2) "Women's Colleges in the United States, Recent Issues and Challenges" (Irene Harwarth and Florence Fasanelli); (3) "Women's Colleges in the United States, A Statistical Portrait" (Irene Harwarth); and (4) "Women's Colleges in the United States, An Overview of Research and Questions for the Future" (Mindi Maline). An appendix contains 18 tables with data on enrollment by size and

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