The Douglass Century : Transformation of the Women’s College at Rutgers University /
"Rutgers University's Douglass Residential College is the only college for women that is nested within a major research university in the United States. Although the number of women's colleges has plummeted from a high of 268 in 1960 to 38 in 2016, Douglass is flourishing as it approa...
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Language: | English |
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New Brunswick, NJ :
Rutgers University Press,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Foreword / Christ, Carol T.
- Deans of the College
- 1. INVENTING DOUGLASS: The Challenge of Women’s Higher Education
- 2. NEW JERSEY COLLEGE FOR WOMEN: Establishing a Tradition, 1918–1929
- 3. CHALLENGES OF THE 1930s
- 4. WORLD WAR II AND ITS AFTERMATH: New Jersey College For Women, 1940–1950
- 5. FROM NEW JERSEY COLLEGE FOR WOMEN TO DOUGLASS COLLEGE
- 6. PRESERVING DOUGLASS’S SPECIAL MISSION
- 7. DOUGLASS IN TWO TURBULENT DECADES: Student Activism and Institutional Transformation
- 8. CREATING KNOWLEDGE ABOUT, BY, AND FOR WOMEN
- 9. REINVENTING DOUGLASS: From University Reorganization to the Transformation of Undergraduate Education
- 10. DIVERSIFYING DOUGLASS
- 11. DOUGLASS RESIDENTIAL COLLEGE: Revitalizing Women’s Education in the Twenty-First Century
- 12. THE DOUGLASS DIFFERENCE
- Afterword
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index