The collection includes data from surveys issued to faculty, undergraduates
and secondary school students regarding coeducation vs. single-sex education;
several folders pertaining to coeducation at other institutions (Bennington,
Lafayette, Princeton, Wabash, Vassar); and materials from a conference
on the undergraduate education of women, held in 1969 at Cedar Crest College.
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Folder 1: Conference on the
Undergraduate Education of Women - Cedar Crest College, PA |
1969 July 8 - 10 |
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Conference brochure |
1969 July 8 - 10 |
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Other conference materials, including a background
summary and list of attendees. [Available in the College Archives] |
1969 July |
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Folder 2: Faculty Attitudes
Toward Coeducation |
1968 - 69 |
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"Smith College and the Issue of Coeducation - Report
#2: The Views of the Faculty - (Preliminary Draft)."
By Peter I. Rose, Social Science Research Center, Smith
College. |
1968 May |
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"Selective Summary of Faculty Questionnaire"
Data compiled by the Social Science Research Center,
Smith College. |
1968 Spring |
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"Faculty Attitudes Toward Coeducation." A summary
of questionnaire results carried out in the spring of 1968. |
[1968] |
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Folder 3: Student Attitudes
Toward Coeducation |
1968 - 70 |
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"Smith College and the Issue of Coeducation - Report
#1: The Pulse of the Campus - (Preliminary Draft)."
By Peter I. Rose, Social Science Research Center, Smith
College. |
1968 April |
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Attitudes Toward Coeducation . "Marginals.
April, 1969, Study No. 692." By the College Planning Committee.
[Includes "Survey of Attitudes Toward Coeducation At Smith." A survey
questionnaire and data compiled from responses.] |
1969 April |
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Attitudes Toward Coeducation. "Cross Tabulation:
Class by Various Other Variables. April 1969. Study No. 692."
By the College Planning Committee. |
1969 April |
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Original student survey form (Study No. 692): "Survey
of Attitudes Toward Coeducation at Smith." [blank] |
1969 April |
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"Survey of Attitudes Toward Coeducation at Smith." (Study
No. 703) - Form annotated with tabulated results |
1970 Dec. |
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Survey cross-tabulations [handwritten] |
n.d. |
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"Selective Summary of the Student Questionnaire" |
n.d. |
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Folder 4: Secondary School Questionnaire |
[1967] |
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Blank survey form: "Special Questionnaire on Seniors'
Attitudes Toward College." |
1967 |
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"Coding System -- Questionnaire to Secondary School Seniors." |
1967 |
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Survey results [Lawrenceville]: "Special Questionnaire
on Seniors' Attitudes Toward College." |
1967 Oct. 2 |
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Computer printouts and tabulations. [Available
in the College Archives] |
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Folder 5: Faculty Planning
Committee - Reports, Memoranda, etc. |
1967 - 71 |
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"Report of the Faculty Planning Committee on Coeducation
at Smith College." |
1967 April |
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Chronicle of Higher Education
"Ivy, State University Applications Rise; Seven Sisters'
Drop." |
1968 April 22 |
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Report: Jane Sehmann, Smith College Director
of Admission, to Members of the Faculty.
Re: Changes in numbers of applicants for admission between
1967 and 1968 at seven all-female colleges. |
1968 May 22 |
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Report of the Faculty Planning Committee: "Coeducation
at Smith College." Includes recommendations to the College Planning
Committee. Report is signed by Charles Henderson, Jr. (chair), George
deVillafranca, Murray Kiteley, Eleanor Lincoln, Elliot Offner, and Stanley
Rothman. |
1968 May |
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"Statistics on the Extent to which Coeducation Already
Exists for Smith Undergraduates." |
1968 November 8 |
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Memorandum: Ely Chinoy to Mr. [Thomas C.] Mendenhall
, President, Smith College. Re: Concrete preliminary
proposal with regard to coeducation as a "basis for discussion." |
1971 January 5 |
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Folder 6: Coeducation at Other Institutions - Bennington
College |
1968 |
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Folder 7: Coeducation at Other Institutions - Lafayette
College |
1969 |
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Folder 8: Coeducation at Other Institutions - Princeton
University |
1967 - 69 |
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Folder 9: Coeducation at Other Institutions - Vassar
College |
1967 |
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Consists of "A Report on Alternatives from the Committee
on New Dimensions. Confidential." |
1967 September 1 |
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Folder 10: Coeducation at Other Institutions - Wabash
College |
1971 |
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Consists of "Report of the Committee to Study the Advantages
and Disadvantages of Educating Women at Wabash College." |
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Folder 11: Coeducation At Smith
College |
1969 - 71 |
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"Coeducation at Smith College: A Report to the President
and the College Planning Committee." By Ely Chinoy. (59 pages) [Cover reads:
"Co-education Anyone?" and is dated January 1970.]
[Note: Paper copies of this report are available
through the Five College library system (call # LD7145.8 .C5 1969)] |
1969 December |
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"Smith College and the Question of Coeducation: A Report
with Recommendations Submitted to the Faculty and the Board of Trustees
by the Augmented College Planning Committee." (23 pages) |
1971 April |
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"Size and Co-education at Smith College." [Unidentified
typescript, probably written by Ely Chinoy.] |
n.d. |
