When NASA astronauts first walked on the moon in 1969, eight-year-old Pamela Melroy was watching. Very few people who saw the Eagle land have forgotten the sight, but for Pam, the experience was more than awe-inspiring-it changed the course of her life.
Regardless of whether we are talking about making Earth a more long-term hospitable place for life forms as we know them or some other particular topic, you can expect to find emerging from women’s colleges a great many leaders and change-makers, thinkers and communicators, intelligent and invested women with a mission.
Today more women are attending college than men; many older, nontraditional students are earning degrees while raising families; and financial aid, scholarships, federal loan programs, and changed policies have opened collegiate doors for students of all income levels and cultural backgrounds.