Forty Years: The History of Women at Bowdoin

A Class Project of GWS 280 - Fall 2011

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Faculty Focus Group

This discussion involved four professors who arrived on Bowdoin’s campus either shortly before or after the College began admitting female students in 1971. If you are interested in hearing how Professors Vail, Cafferty, Cerf, and Potholm recount their experiences of Bowdoin’s transition to coeducation with regard to classroom dynamics, course content, student-professor relations, and faculty/departmental interactions, click on this audio link here and/or view these selected video clips.

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https://learn.bowdoin.edu/gender-women/audio/faculty-focus-group.mp3
Faculty Focus Group
Faculty Focus Group

Filed Under: Curriculum, Focus Group, Focus Group, Process Tagged With: 1971, Cafferty, Cerf, Faculty, Focus Group, Potholm, Professors, Vail

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