Talk:Women's colleges in the United States

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[edit] 'Almost exclusively'? and male academic staff

The introduction states that these are 'institutions of higher education in the United States whose student populations are composed exclusively or almost exclusively of women' (emphasis added). Does this mean there are women's colleges that admit small numbers of male students? For an outsider it is a confusing statement. I would expect a college to be either mixed or single-sex, not almost exclusively single-sex.

Also, I may have skipped this part, but I see that many, if not all, of these colleges have men in the academic staff, even as President in one case I think. Are there any restrictions? At Oxford the women's colleges (when there were women's colleges) did not admit men as Fellows.--Oxonian2006 (talk) 21:05, 4 May 2008 (UTC)