{"id":474,"date":"2011-02-08T23:10:28","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T23:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/researchbdev.wpengine.com\/forty-years-the-history-of-women-at-bowdoin\/?p=474"},"modified":"2011-12-09T02:15:16","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T02:15:16","slug":"coeducation-plan-is-proposed-the-bowdoin-orient-february-13-1970","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/forty-years-the-history-of-women-at-bowdoin\/prehistory-of-coeducation\/coeducation-plan-is-proposed-the-bowdoin-orient-february-13-1970\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Coeducation Plan is Proposed&#8221; The Bowdoin Orient February 13, 1970"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pierce Report attempted to anticipate many changes that coeducation would usher in at the college.\u00a0 The committee\u2019s general plan included considerations of admissions, housing, facilities, and curriculum (Document GB, 12).\u00a0 One major decision by the committee was to admit transfers as well as first year students in an attempt to spread the women among the classes.\u00a0 In the first year, Bowdoin admitted 29 junior transfers and 39 exchange women to supplement the 66 members of the first year class of 1975.<\/p>\n<p>This committee attempted to consider nearly every area of the college that would be impacted by coeducation.\u00a0 By publishing this excerpt in the student newspaper, the committee attempted to share its findings with the entire student body. Oral histories of women from the early years clearly reveal that even with this input, however, Bowdoin\u2019s understanding of what coeducation would really mean.\u00a0 As women arrived, Bowdoin learned that additional changes were needed to make women feel more at home in this environment. For example, one demand by the early classes of women was to have working locks on every door of their residence.\u00a0 Other demands would follow.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_479\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-479\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-479\" title=\"GB12 - &quot;Coeducation Plan is Proposed&quot; The Bowdoin Orient February 13, 1970\" src=\"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/forty-years-the-history-of-women-at-bowdoin\/files\/2011\/12\/gb-12-orient-1970-february-13-page-4.jpg\" alt=\"GB12 - &quot;Coeducation Plan is Proposed&quot; The Bowdoin Orient February 13, 1970\" width=\"650\" height=\"1596\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/forty-years-the-history-of-women-at-bowdoin\/files\/2011\/12\/gb-12-orient-1970-february-13-page-4.jpg 650w, https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/forty-years-the-history-of-women-at-bowdoin\/files\/2011\/12\/gb-12-orient-1970-february-13-page-4-122x300.jpg 122w, https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/forty-years-the-history-of-women-at-bowdoin\/files\/2011\/12\/gb-12-orient-1970-february-13-page-4-417x1024.jpg 417w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-479\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">GB12 - &quot;Coeducation Plan is Proposed&quot; The Bowdoin Orient February 13, 1970<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pierce Report attempted to anticipate many changes that coeducation would usher in at the college.\u00a0 The committee\u2019s general plan included considerations of admissions, housing, facilities, and curriculum (Document GB, 12).\u00a0 One major decision by the committee was to admit transfers as well as first year students in an attempt to spread the women among [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1],"tags":[192,100,193,32,30],"class_list":{"0":"post-474","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-documents-prehistory-of-coeducation","7":"category-prehistory-of-coeducation","8":"tag-192","9":"tag-coeducation","10":"tag-gb12","11":"tag-orient","12":"tag-the-pierce-report","13":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/forty-years-the-history-of-women-at-bowdoin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/forty-years-the-history-of-women-at-bowdoin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/forty-years-the-history-of-women-at-bowdoin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/forty-years-the-history-of-women-at-bowdoin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/forty-years-the-history-of-women-at-bowdoin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/forty-years-the-history-of-women-at-bowdoin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/forty-years-the-history-of-women-at-bowdoin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/forty-years-the-history-of-women-at-bowdoin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/forty-years-the-history-of-women-at-bowdoin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}