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 approaches its centen...

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1. Verfasser: Denda, Kayo (Verfasst von)
Weitere Verfasser: Perrone, Fernanda (Herausgegeben von), Hawkesworth, M. E., 1952- (Herausgegeben von)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 2018.
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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