{"id":49,"date":"2011-04-07T17:00:28","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T17:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/researchbdev.wpengine.com\/forty-years-the-history-of-women-at-bowdoin\/?p=49"},"modified":"2011-12-09T03:54:04","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T03:54:04","slug":"report-of-c-e-p-sub-committee-on-coeducation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/forty-years-the-history-of-women-at-bowdoin\/curriculum\/report-of-c-e-p-sub-committee-on-coeducation\/","title":{"rendered":"Report of C.E.P. Sub-committee on Coeducation"},"content":{"rendered":"

During the late 1960s and early 1970s, many single-sex colleges across the country began to consider transitioning into coeducational institutions. In 1969, Bowdoin became one of twelve colleges to participate in a Twelve College Exchange program that allowed male and female students to spend a semester to a full year studying at a college from which their sex had previously been excluded. Through the exchange program, the colleges involved hoped to learn more about the changes that would occur and the new facilities and\/or provisions that would be necessary for the admission of predominantly female students, but in general, students of the opposite sex. Bowdoin considered and evaluated the many modifications required as a result of women\u2019s potential admission by forming various sub-committees within, for example, the Committee on Preparatory Schools and Admissions, the Committee on Student life, and notably, within the Curriculum and Education Policy Committee (C.E.P.).<\/p>\n

The report presented here (Document, SW, 31) is from the C.E.P. subcommittee on Coeducation. It addresses the general and specific curricular implications the entrance of women to Bowdoin could have based on the subcommittee\u2019s reviews of \u201cextensive reports prepared by the faculty and administrative groups at Kenyon, Vassar, Wesleyan, Williams, and Yale,\u201d institutions that were all coeducational by 1970 and some of whom were members of the College Exchange.<\/p>\n

According to this report, the C.E.P. subcommittee on Coeducation favored the admission of women to Bowdoin, asserting that women, \u201cas students and as faculty\u201d would \u201cimprove and enrich the cultural and intellectual climate of the College.\u201d With regards to curricular implications, the subcommittee claims that, despite the finding that \u201cgirls do not necessarily \u2018bunch up\u2019 in the humanities courses and avoid the natural sciences,\u201d it still might be necessary to give \u201cwider offerings in music, art, and languages\u201d and provide an \u201cextension of the offerings in psychology to meet the interests of women in child development and clinical psychology.\u201d In addition, they state that greater demands may be made on the faculty based on the evidence that \u201cacademically able women\u201d are often very interested in independent study<\/p>\n

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