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The Credit Crunch and College Students
Testimony of President Patricia A. McGuire, Trinity Washington University before the Senate Banking Committee, April 15, 2008, regarding the impact of the credit crunch on the student loan market and college students. 12 page, 177K PDF document.
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There's a Strong Sense of Community
College is an exciting time for incoming freshmen. Between adjusting to new professors, meeting new people and figuring out where you fit on campus, there is lots to think about.
For many young women, one perk of college means brand-new guys to meet. However, there is an alternative — attending a single-sex college. MORE »
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Give Young Women the Confidence to Tackle the 21st Century
A recent national poll by Scholastic News of more than 30,000 firstthrough eighth-graders revealed a startling statistic: 81 percent of girls in that age group have no interest in becoming president of the United States.
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Many Women Aspire to For-profit Board Membership
Many women executives who currently serve on non-profit boards of directors actively aspire to serve on for-profit boards—where women currently are dramatically underrepresented—according to a survey released today by the Simmons School of Management in Boston.
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Students Win National Reporting Awards
Eight Mills students win national reporting awards. Information plus links to their award-winning radio news reports.
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Making the Sciences Accessible
“When I learned science, it was through doing sets of experiments, like following recipes out of a cookbook,” recalls Dr. Cindy Norton, Endowed Professor in the Sciences at the College of St. Catherine in Minnesota (www.stkate.edu). “Over the past 15 years, things have changed, though,” she adds. “Science is now more inquiry based and more relevant to students.”
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Real World Education
Many associated with Converse College say that results from a recent survey demonstrating the long-term effectiveness of women's colleges go much deeper than just the numbers.
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Women-only Colleges Have Great Records
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.
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Home Cooking
Sending the kids off to college is one rite of passage. But it's when they
finally leave for real that the biggest breach begins.
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Study: Women's college alumnae more likely to complete a graduate degree
When it came time for Hillary Jarrett to apply for veterinary school, she knew her professors at Wesleyan College were behind her.
"I've had professors help me every step of the way," said Jarrett, a senior majoring in biology. "The whole environment is supportive."
That support from professors is one reason why a new study shows that alumnae from women's colleges are more likely to complete a graduate degree than alumnae from private liberal arts colleges or flagship public universities, said Vivia Fowler, vice president for academic affairs and dean of Wesleyan College.
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Survey: Women's College Grads Ready to Lead
Graduates of women’s colleges are better prepared than others to take on leadership roles, according to results from a recent survey of alumnae from Sweet Briar College and other women’s colleges.
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New Evidence Bolsters Women's Colleges
Graduates of women’s colleges are significantly more likely than women who graduated from other liberal arts colleges or from public flagships to have graduate degrees, according to data released Monday, March 3, 2008.
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What Matters in College After College
The Women’s Colleges Comparative Alumnae Research Project is organized around key factors identified by education researchers Alexander Astin, Ernest T. Pascarella and Patrick T. Terenzini as critical to educational effectiveness, specifically, those elements of the college environment that contribute to students’ positive outcomes:
Interaction between faculty and students;
A strong community and peer interactions both inside and outside the classroom;
A challenging, active classroom environment.
This study assesses lasting effects, from 1970-1997.
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2007 Honor Roll Members Announced
Five hundred twenty eight colleges and universities – including 14 women’s colleges – were name to the second annual 2007 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll.
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Writing the Next Chapter in Women’s Education:
Although women’s lives, particularly in industrialized nations, have changed dramatically, women throughout the world face continued inequity--and colleges and universities face the continued and increasingly complex challenge of preparing women for leadership and advocacy.
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Converts to Leading Women's Colleges
Judith Shapiro, who is retiring this year after a successful run as president of Barnard College, was no stranger to women’s colleges when she was named its president in 1994.
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Internships: Job Requirement
SCHOOL-supported stints in the workplace have become as familiar a part of the undergraduate world as bleary-eyed cramming for finals. While on most campuses such spells are optional, more than 125 institutions require a dip into the workforce for certain majors, and at least a dozen mandate it for every full-time undergraduate.
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Influential Sports Educator Named
Laurie Priest, Chair of Physical Education and Director of Athletics at Mount Holyoke College since 1989, has been named one of "The 100 Most Influential Sports Educators in America" by the Institute for International Sport.
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Now This Is Woman's Work
There are more female governors in office than ever before, and they are making their mark with a pragmatic, postpartisan approach to solving state problems.
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It's the Same Old Story in Jena Today
In some ways, these sorts of disputes are familiar at high schools nationwide. Students and parents in racially mixed high schools so often ask, "Why are all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria?"
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Changing Student Demographics
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.
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Flourishing in Midst of Downturn
This fall, Meredith College in Raleigh enrolled its largest ever freshman class. Both Meredith and Peace College have raised tens of millions of dollars, recruited many more minority students and started international partnerships.
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Hogwart's Smarty Pants
For girls who are the bookworm sort - and any true devotee of the often 500-page-plus Potter books probably qualifies as one - Hermione is the kind of heroine who gives flight to their imaginations, who inspires and serves as a role model.
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A Good Sort of Busy
After 10 years, Notre Dame's first permanent lay president is proud of its growing enrollment -- and of its decision to remain a women's college.
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Colleges Should Boycott Bogus Ratings Game
Rip it up and throw it away. That's the advice I'm giving my fellow college and university presidents this month as the "reputation survey" from U.S. News & World Report lands on our desks.
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Why We Need Women's Colleges
With its own powerful traditions, norms, and values, and a sense of wholeness sui generis, a women's college helps to develop in students a sense of confidence, competence, and agency. Graduates are more able to see gender-repression when they encounter it and to distinguish between personal and systemic barriers to success.
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A ‘Rebellious Daughter’ to Lead Harvard
Recalling her coming of age as the only girl in a privileged, tradition-bound family in Virginia horse country, Drew Gilpin Faust, 59, has often spoken of her “continued confrontations” with her mother “about the requirements of what she usually called femininity.”
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On Making History and Progress
Trinity President Patricia A. McGuire's blog gives her alma mater's perspective on the historic swearing in of the first woman Speaker of the House.
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NCI's Global Summit an Opportunity for Students
The Newcomb Summit, Educating Women for a World in Crisis, held on campus February 8-11, 2007 gave students a great opportunity to present their service-oriented projects in a conference that brings together internationally-renowned speakers. The summit addressed ways in which higher education can better prepare women for a world where crisis is a daily reality.
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Trinity Graduate Nancy Pelosi '62 Makes History
As the 110th U.S. Congress convenes in January 2007, Trinity graduate and Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi '62 will be making history as she is sworn in as Speaker of the House: she is the first woman to hold this powerful leadership position.
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Third Annual Young People For National Summit for Progressive Leaders and Activists
Nearly 200 of the nation’s outstanding young progressive leaders -- including six women's college students -- will gather in Washington, D.C., over the 2007 Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend, to share ideas, learn organizing skills and hear from national progressive movement leaders at the Third Annual Young People For National Summit for Progressive Leaders and Activists.
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Head of the Class
For women’s colleges, a high priority is to prepare women for leadership and hasten the day when pay is equal, the policies of government and business adequately support women in the workplace and the obligations of family life, and those long-enduring "old boys’ clubs" have passed completely into history.
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Brave New World
As the number of minority women in the United States swells over the next few decades, the face of education will change profoundly, creating exciting opportunities for leaders in higher education.
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A Civics Lesson
After becoming involved with Pericles three years ago, Chatham changed its core curriculum so that all students are required to complete a course called Citizenship and Civic Engagement.
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Extreme Makeovers
In Virginia, three elite women's colleges reinvent themselves and find a new mission in a coed world.
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Mommy, I Know You
We are only a generation away from the time when girls were effectively off the map. To take one example: the 1980 "Handbook of Adolescent Psychology" concluded that adolescent girls "have simply not been much studied." By bringing girls and women into research on human development, I and others discovered that their exclusion did more than hurt them. It distorted our understanding of boys as well. Both sexes suffer when one is not understood. This is not a zero-sum game.
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Yes to Womens Colleges
TWO WOMEN'S colleges, Regis College and Randolph-Macon Woman's College, announced recently they will become co educational. Does this matter? Haven't today's women “made it”? Are women's colleges still relevant today?
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Women's Colleges Must Be An Option
For women, some of the most distinctive and effective choices are the nation's women's colleges. As leaders of two such institutions, Sweet Briar College and Hollins University, we have witnessed firsthand the difference a single-sex atmosphere can make in the personal and intellectual growth of our students.
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Ditch Outdated Notions About Gender, Roles
What if women had been at the table when organizations, economies and other fundamental community activities were structured? How would communities be different? How would the lives of women and girls be different?
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And Baby Makes Two
- Rosanna Hertz, a professor of women's studies and sociology at Wellesley College, is the author of "Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice: How Women Are Choosing Parenthood Without Marriage and Creating the New American Family." In her article for the Christian Science Monitor, she exposes the trend of single motherhood for women in their 30's and 40's.
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Once Exclusive College Redefines Mission
Jeanmarie Salie is now living among the giant evergreens on Pine Manor College's 60-acre campus in Brookline. Buried deep in the soil is a tradition of debutante days on campus, when breakfast was routinely taken in bed on Sunday mornings. As a member of the largest incoming class -- at 206 students -- in the school's history, Salie, 17, will graduate from an institution whose alumnae might not recognize it.
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The Compelling Case for Women's Colleges
In 1990, Mills College came close to walking the same path as these colleges, and reversed the decision to go coed following major protests. Since that time, we have increased enrollment, expanded opportunities for professional graduate education linked to our undergraduate, liberal arts core, broken previous fundraising records, accelerated our academic achievements, and earned national preeminence among higher educational institutions nationwide.
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Women's Colleges See an Obligation
Now student leaders at the colleges still known as the "Seven Sisters," even though their number has dwindled to five, are joining forces to discuss the future of women's schools. Last weekend, they gathered in Northampton and agreed that they had an obligation to maintain the traditions upon which their institutions were founded.
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Students Strive to Influence World Community
This year, we look farther outward: We are enhancing our students’ global awareness and involvement and our recruitment efforts and intern/career placement internationally. This includes joining 16 other schools in an AAC&U Global Learning and Social Responsibility project designed to integrate today’s global issues into our general education frameworks.
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Gender Matters in College Choice: Asking the Right Questions
This is a PDF file of a presentation given at the National Association for College Admission Counseling [NACAC] Annual Meeting in October of 2006. A 27-page overview of the National Survey on Student Engagement [NSSE] and more.
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BECOMING GLOBAL CITIZENS: Seeing Beyond the Veil
This is a PDF file of an article that appeared in the College of St. Benedict Fall 2005 Magazine:
“Women as Global Leaders: Educating the Next Generation” was produced and hosted by Zayed University in Dubai. Each participant shared in the same vision, according to Katie, “the continuing empowerment of women.”
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Why Research Matters at a Liberal Arts College
In the low-visibility, moisture-dense cloud forest of Monteverde, Costa Rica, it didn’t take long for Smith College professors Amy Rhodes ’91, a geochemist, and Andrew Guswa, a theoretical hydrologist, to clearly see the rich opportunities for hands-on teaching and collaborative research.
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Sweet Briar dean of admissions Ken Huus recently was interviewed by the local National Public Radio affiliate, WVTF. Huus was asked about a comparative study commissioned by the Women’s College Coalition.
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Alumna Shares Her Story on NPR
Tia Casciato Smallwood '71 recently shared a "sound portrait" of what it was like to attend college in the late 1960s, when women were struggling to break into fields historically closed to them.
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Moral Development in College (Theirs and Ours)
Elizabeth Kiss, president of Agnes Scott College and co-editor of Debating Moral Education. Podcast. MORE » |
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A Modern Mission for Traditional Women's Colleges
Smith College history professor Helen Horowitz is interviewed on NPR about the modern mission of today's women's colleges.
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