History of higher education in the United States

The history of higher education in the United States begins with Harvard College and continues to the present time. For recent trends see the article Higher education in the United States.

Colonial era

Religious denominations established most early colleges in order to train ministers. They were modeled after Oxford and Cambridge universities in England, as well as Scottish universities. Harvard College was founded by the Massachusetts Bay colonial legislature in 1636, and named after an early benefactor. Most of the funding came from the colony, but the college early began to collect endowment. Harvard at first focused on training young men for the ministry, and won general support from the Puritan government, some of whose leaders had attended Oxford or Cambridge.[1] The College of William & Mary was founded by Virginia government in 1693, with 20,000 acres (81 km2) of land for an endowment, and a penny tax on every pound of tobacco, together with an annual appropriation. James Blair, the leading Church of England minister in the colony, was president for 50 years, and the college won the broad support of the Virginia gentry. It trained many of the lawyers, politicians, and leading planters.[2] Yale College was founded in 1701, and in 1716 was relocated to New Haven, Connecticut. The conservative Puritan ministers of Connecticut had grown dissatisfied with the more liberal theology of Harvard, and wanted their own school to train orthodox minister.[3]

New Light Presbyterians in 1747 set up the College of New Jersey, in the town of Princeton; much later it was renamed Princeton University. Rhode Island College was begun by Baptists in 1764, and in 1804 it was renamed Brown University in honor of a benefactor. Brown was especially liberal in welcoming young men from other denominations. In New York City, the Church of England set up King's College by royal charter in 1746, with its president Doctor Samuel Johnson the only teacher. It closed during the American Revolution, and reopened in 1784 under the name of Columbia College; it is now part of Columbia University. The Academy of Pennsylvania was created in 1749 by Benjamin Franklin and other civic minded leaders in Philadelphia, and unlike the others was not oriented toward the training of ministers. It was renamed the University of Pennsylvania in 1791. The Dutch Reformed Church in 1766 set up Queen's College in New Jersey, which later became Rutgers University. Dartmouth College, chartered in 1769, moved to its present site in Hanover, New Hampshire, in 1770.[4][5]

Nineteenth century

Most Protestant denominations, as well as the Catholics, opened small colleges in the nineteenth century, mostly after 1850.[6][7] Nearly all taught in the English language, although there were a few German language seminaries and colleges.[8]

Frontier

While colleges were springing up across the Northeast, there was little competition on the western frontier for Transylvania University, founded in Lexington, Kentucky in 1780.[9] It boasted of a law school in addition to its undergraduate and medical programs. It attracted politically ambitious young men From across the Southwest including 50 who became United States senators, 101 Congressmen, 36 governors and 34 ambassadors, as well as Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy.[10] Transylvania's president Horace Holley, 1818-27, a Yale graduate and Unitarian minister, proved to be an extremely able administrator. Moving beyond the college he tried to establish a large statewide university for Kentucky . Presbyterians rallied the opposition, forcing Holley to resign. His fledgling state university was later absorbed into the University of Kentucky.[11]

Curriculum

All the schools were small, with a limited undergraduate curriculum based on the liberal arts. Students were drilled in Greek, Latin, geometry, ancient history, logic, ethics and rhetoric, with few discussions and no lab sessions. Originality and creativity were not prized, but exact repetition was rewarded. The college president typically enforced strict discipline, and the upperclassman enjoyed hazing the freshman. Many students were younger than 17, and most of the colleges also operated a preparatory school. There were no organized sports, or Greek-letter fraternities, but literary societies were active. Tuition was very low and scholarships were few. Many of their students were sons of clergymen; most planned professional careers as ministers, lawyers or teachers.[12]

By the 1820s there was a growing demand to replace Greek and Latin with modern languages, as had been proposed by Jeffersonians at the University of Virginia And the newly opened University of the City of New York. The Yale Report of 1828 was a defense of the Latin and Greek curriculum, And a call to maintain traditions, especially against the forceful reputation of the German research universities that were starting to attract young American postgraduate scholars. Most critics see it as a reactionary move, although Pak Depicted in terms of attracting students from the growing number of private academies that continued to stress the classic languages. The reformers failed, and the classical languages continued as the centerpiece of the rigid traditional curriculum until after the Civil War.[13][14] For example, at East Alabama Male College, a small Methodist school was founded in 1856 with a curriculum centerd on Latin, Greek, and moral science; it resembled most other antebellum Southern colleges. It closed during the Civil War and reopened as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama, becoming the state's land-grant institution. While retaining some of the antebellum classical curriculum to accommodate the returning faculty, it added new courses in agricultural and industrial arts, as well as applied sciences. It became Alabama Polytechnic Institute in 1899, and is now known as Auburn University.[15]

Impact of 19th-century colleges

Summarizing the research of Burke and Hall, Katz concludes that in the 19th century:.[16]

  1. The nation's many small colleges helped young men make the transition from rural farms to complex urban occupations.
  2. These colleges especially promoted upward mobility by preparing ministers and thereby provided towns across the country with a core of community leaders.
  3. The more elite colleges became increasingly exclusive and contributed relatively little to upward social mobility. By concentrating on the offspring of wealthy families, ministers and a few others, the elite Eastern colleges, especially Harvard, played an important role in the formation of a Northeastern elite with great power.

Law and medical schools

There were no schools of law in the early British colonies, thus no schools of law were in America in colonial times. A few lawyers studied at the highly prestigious Inns of Court in London, while the majority served apprenticeships with established American lawyers.[17] Law was very well established in the colonies, compared to medicine, which was in rudimentary condition. In the 18th century, 117 Americans had graduated in medicine in Edinburgh, Scotland, but most physicians in the colonies learned as apprentices.[18] In Philadelphia, the Medical College of Philadelphia was founded in 1765, and became affiliated with the university in 1791. In New York, the medical department of King's College was established in 1767, and in 1770 awarded the first American M.D. degree. It is now Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.[19]

On the frontier after 1799, medical professionalism and medical education was heavily influenced by the medical program at Transylvania University in Kentucky, which graduated 8000 doctors by 1860.[20][21]

Women and blacks at college

Mary Lyon (1797-1849) founded the first woman's college, Mount Holyoke College in western Massachusetts in 1837

Mary Lyon (1797-1849) founded Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in 1837; it was the first college opened for women and is now Mount Holyoke College, one of the Seven Sisters. Lyon was a deeply religious Congregationalist who, although not a minister, preached revivals at her school. She greatly admired colonial theologian Jonathan Edwards for his theology and his ideals of self-restraint, self-denial, and disinterested benevolence.[22] Georgia Female College, now Wesleyan College opened in 1839 as the first Southern college for women.[23][24]

Oberlin College opened in 1833 as Oberlin Collegiate Institute, in the heavily Yankee northeastern corner of Ohio. In 1837 it became the first coeducational college by admitting four women. Soon they were fully integrated into the college, and comprised from a third to half of the student body. The religious founders especially evangelical theologian Charles Grandison Finney, saw women as inherently morally superior to men. Indeed, many alumnae, inspired by this sense of superiority and their personal duty to fulfill God's mission engaged in missionary work. Historians have typically presented coeducation at Oberlin as an enlightened societal development presaging the future evolution of the ideal of equality for women in higher education[25] Intensely anti-slavery, Oberlin was the only college to admit black students in the 1830s. By the 1880s, however, with the fading of evangelical idealism, the school began segregating its black students.[26]

The enrollment of women grew steadily after the Civil War. In 1870, 9,100 women comprised 21% of all college students. In 1930, 481,000 women comprised 44% of the student body.

College women
enrollment 		Women's colleges Coed-colleges % of all
students
1870 6,500 2,600 21%
1890 16,800 39,500 36%
1910 34,100 106,500 40%
1930 82,100 398,700 44%
Source:[27]

Philanthropy and funding

Local wealthy families supported local schools, especially of their religious denomination, often by the donation of land. Wealthy philanthropists for example, established Johns Hopkins University, Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon University, Vanderbilt University and Duke University; John D. Rockefeller funded the University of Chicago without imposing his name on it.[28]

Protestant denominations set up funds that by 1830 subsidized about a fourth of the prospective ministers then in college. The American Education Society, founded in 1815, raised funds from local Protestant churches to support their students. Furthermore, it aided academies, colleges, and seminaries and helped to maintain high academic standards. It was a champion of the classical curriculum against the demands for more modern skills.[29][30]

Land Grant universities

Each state used federal funding from the Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Acts of 1862 and 1890 to set up "land grant colleges" that specialized in agriculture and engineering.

Among the first were Purdue University in Indiana, Michigan State University, Kansas State University, Cornell University (in New York), Texas A&M University, Pennsylvania State University, The Ohio State University and the University of California. Few alumni became farmers, but they did play an increasingly important role in the larger food industry, especially after the Extension system was set up in 1916 that put trained agronomists in every agricultural county.

The engineering graduates played a major role in rapid technological development.[31] Indeed, the land-grant college system produced the agricultural scientists and industrial engineers who constituted the critical human resources of the managerial revolution in government and business, 1862–1917, laying the foundation of the world's pre-eminent educational infrastructure that supported the world's foremost technology-based economy.[32]

Representative was Pennsylvania State University. The Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania (later the Agricultural College of Pennsylvania and then Pennsylvania State University), chartered in 1855, was intended to uphold declining agrarian values and show farmers ways to prosper through more productive farming. Students were to build character and meet a part of their expenses by performing agricultural labor. By 1875 the compulsory labor requirement was dropped, but male students were to have an hour a day of military training in order to meet the requirements of the Morrill Land Grant College Act. In the early years the agricultural curriculum was not well developed, and politicians in Harrisburg often considered it a costly and useless experiment. The college was a center of middle-class values that served to help young people on their journey to white-collar occupations.[33]

Black land grant colleges

In 1890 Congress funded all-black land grant colleges, which were dedicated primarily to teacher training. These colleges made important contributions to rural development, including the establishment of a traveling school program by Tuskegee Institute in 1906. Rural conferences sponsored by Tuskegee focused on improving the efficiency and living standards of black farmers. Its head, Booker T. Washington, was the most influential black spokesman of the 1895–1915 era, and he obtained many academic grants from northern philanthropists and foundations.[34] Starting in 1900 he worked to open connections with educators in Africa; for example he worked with the Phelps-Stokes Fund and the Firestone Rubber Company to design the Booker T. Washington Agricultural and Industrial Institute in Liberia. It was delayed by the World War and opened in 1928, 13 years after Washington's death.[35] Since the 1960s, the 1890 schools have helped train many students from less-developed countries who return home with the ability to improve agricultural production.[36]

Twentieth century

Many campus buildings were named after local philanthropists who donated the funds.

At the beginning of the 20th century, fewer than 1,000 colleges with 160,000 students existed in the United States. Explosive growth in the number of colleges occurred in bursts, especially in 1900–1930 and in 1950–1970. State universities grew from small institutions of fewer than 1000 students to campuses with 40,000 more students, as well as a network of regional campuses around the state. In turn the regional campuses broke away and became separate universities. To handle the growth of K–12 education, every state set up a network of teachers' colleges, beginning with Massachusetts in 1830s. After 1950 they became state colleges and then state universities with a broad curriculum.

 College degrees awarded, 1870–2009
Year BA degrees MA degrees PhD degrees
1870    9,400  NA     1
1890   15,500   1,000   149
1910   37,200   2,100   440
1930  122,500  15,000  2,300
1950  432,000  58,200  6,600
1970  827,000 208,000 29,900
1990 1,052,000 325,000 38,000
2009 1,600,000 657,000 67,000
source: census[37]

Graduate programs

Advanced degrees were not a criterion for professorships at most colleges. That began to change in the mid-19th century, as thousands of the more ambitious scholars at major schools went to Germany for one to three years to obtain a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in the sciences or the humanities.[38][39] Graduate schools slowly emerged in the United States. In the 1860s and 1870s, Yale and Harvard awarded a few PhDs. The major breakthroughs came with the opening of Clark University, which only offered graduate programs, and the Johns Hopkins University, which focused on its PhD program. By the 1890s, Harvard, Columbia, Michigan And Wisconsin were building major graduate programs; their alumni were in strong demand at aspiring universities. By 1900, there were 6,000 enrolled graduate students. The six main universities awarded about 300 PhD's annually.[40]

In Germany, the national government funded the universities and the research programs of the leading professors. It was impossible for professors who were not approved by Berlin to train graduate students. In the United States, private universities and state universities alike were independent of the federal government. Independence was high, but funding was low. A breakthrough came from private foundations, which began regularly supporting research in science and history; large corporations sometimes supported engineering programs. The postdoctoral fellowship was established by the Rockefeller Foundation in 1919. Meanwhile the leading universities, in cooperation with the learned societies, set up a network of scholarly journals. "Publish or perish" became the formula for faculty advancement in the research universities. After World War II, state universities across the country expanded greatly in undergraduate enrollment, and eagerly added research programs leading to master's or doctorate degrees. Their graduate faculties had to have a suitable record of publication and research grants. Late in the 20th century, "publish or perish" became increasingly important in colleges and smaller universities.[41][42]

Junior colleges

Major new trends included the development of the junior colleges. They were usually set up by city school systems starting in the 1920s.[43] By the 1960s some were renamed as "community colleges".

Junior colleges grew from 20 in number In 1909, to 170 in 1919. By 1922, 37 states had set up 70 junior colleges, enrolling about 150 students each. Meanwhile another 137 were privately operated, with about 60 students each. Rapid expansion continued in the 1920s, with 440 junior colleges in 1930 enrolling about 70,000 students. The peak year for private institutions came in 1949, when there were 322 junior colleges in all; 180 were affiliated with churches, 108 were independent non-profit, and 34 were private Schools run for-profit.[44]

Many factors contributed to rapid growth of community colleges. Students, parents and businessmen wanted nearby, low-cost schools to provide training for the growing white-collar labor force, as well as for more advanced technical jobs in the blue collar sphere. Four-year colleges were also growing, albeit not as fast; however many of them were located in rural or small-town areas away from the fast-growing metropolis. Community colleges continue as open enrollment, low-cost institutions with a strong component of vocational education, as well as a lower-cost preparation for transfer students into four-year schools. They appeal to a poorer, older, less prepared element.[45]

GI Bill

Rejecting liberal calls for large-scale aid to education, Congress in 1944 passed the conservative program of aid limited to veterans who had served in wartime. The GI Bill made college education possible for millions by paying tuition and living expenses. The government provided between $800 and $1,400 each year to these veterans as a subsidy to attend college, which covered 50–80% of total costs. This included forgone earnings in addition to tuition, which allowed them to have enough funds for life outside of school. The GI Bill helped create a widespread belief in the necessity of college education. It opened up higher education to ambitious young men who would otherwise have been forced to immediately enter the job market. When comparing college attendance rates between veterans and non-veterans during this period, veterans were around 10% more likely to go to college than non-veterans. Most campuses became overwhelmingly male thanks to the GI Bill, since few women were covered, However by 2000 women had reached parity in numbers and began passing men in rates of college and graduate school attendance.[46]

Great Society

When liberals regained control of Congress in 1964 they passed numerous Great Society programs that greatly expanded federal support for education. The Higher Education Act of 1965 set up federal scholarships and low-interest loans for college students, and subsidized better academic libraries, ten to twenty new graduate centers, several new technical institutes, classrooms for several hundred thousand students, and twenty-five to thirty new community colleges a year. A separate education bill enacted that same year provided similar assistance to dental and medical schools.[47]

For-profit universities

A major development of the late twentieth century was the emergence on a very large scale of for-profit higher education institutions. They appeal to low-income students, who can borrow money from the federal government to pay the tuition. and to veterans who receive tuition money as part of their enlistment bonus. They have become very controversial in the 21st century, because of the high proportion of students who fail to graduate, or who do graduate and fail to get good jobs; many default on repayment of their federal loans. Federal and state officials started cracking down on the for-profits, and some have gone out of business.[48][49]

Roman Catholic colleges and universities

The first Catholic college in the United States was Georgetown University, founded in Georgetown (now Washington, D.C.). Some of the small colleges of the 19th century have become major universities and integrated into the mainstream academic community.[50]

The Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities was founded in 1899 and continues to facilitate the exchange of information and methods.[51] Vigorous debate in recent decades has focused on how to balance Catholic and academic roles, with conservatives arguing that bishops should exert more control to guarantee orthodoxy.[52][53][54]

The orders of nuns, and some dioceses, founded numerous colleges for women. The first was the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, which opened elementary and secondary schools in Baltimore in 1873 and a four-year college in 1895. It added graduate programs in the 1980s that accepted men and is now Notre Dame of Maryland University.[55] Another 42 women's colleges opened by 1925; by 1955, there were 116 Catholic colleges for women. Most—but not all of them—went co-ed, merged or closed after 1970.[56]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ See Roger L. Geiger, The History of American Higher Education (2014) pp 1-8 online
  2. ↑ See Geiger, The History of American Higher Education (2014) pp 11-15 online
  3. ↑ See Geiger, The History of American Higher Education (2014) pp 8-11 online
  4. ↑ John R. Thelin, A History of American Higher Education (2004) pp 1-40
  5. ↑ Lawrence A. Cremin, American Education: The Colonial Experience, 1607–1783 1970, passim
  6. ↑ David B. Potts, "American colleges in the nineteenth century: From localism to denominationalism." History of Education Quarterly (1971): 363-380 in JSTOR.
  7. ↑ David B. Potts, Baptist colleges in the development of American society, 1812-1861 (1988).
  8. ↑ Louis A. Haselmayer, "German Methodist colleges in the West." Methodist History (1964) 2#4 pp 35-43. online
  9. ↑ John, Jr. Wright, Transylvania: Tutor to the West (1976)
  10. ↑ John R. Thelin, A History of American Higher Education (2004) pp 46-47
  11. ↑ William J. McGlothlin, "Rev. Horace Holley: Transylvania's Unitarian President, 1818-1827," Filson Club History Quarterly (1977) 51#3 pp 234-248
  12. ↑ Frederick Rudolph, The American College and University: A History (1962) pp 3-22
  13. ↑ Michael S. Pak, "The Yale Report of 1828: A New Reading and New Implications," History of Education Quarterly (2008) 48#1 pp 30-57 in JSTOR
  14. ↑ Rudolph, The American College and University: A History (1962) pp 124-135
  15. ↑ Dwayne Cox, "Academic Purpose and Command at Auburn, 1856-1902," Alabama Review (2008) 51#2 pp 83-104 online
  16. ↑ Michael Katz, "The Role of American Colleges in the Nineteenth Century", History of Education Quarterly, Vol. 23, No. 2 (Summer, 1983), pp. 215-223 in JSTOR, summarizing Colin B. Burke, American Collegiate Populations: A Test of the Traditional View (New York University Press, 1982) and Peter Dobkin Hall, The Organization of American Culture: Private Institutions, Elites, and the Origins of American Nationality (New York University Press, 1982)
  17. ↑ Anton-Hermann Chroust, Rise of the Legal Profession in America (1965) vol 1 ch 1-2
  18. ↑ Genevieve Miller, "A Physician in 1776", Clio Medica, Oct 1976, Vol. 11 Issue 3, pp 135-146
  19. ↑ Jacob Ernest Cooke, ed. Encyclopedia of the North American colonies (3 vol 1992) 1:214
  20. ↑ John D. Wright, Jr. ed., Transylvania: Tutor to the West (1980)
  21. ↑ L. G. Zerfas, "Medical Education in Indiana As Influenced by Early Indiana Graduates in Medicine from Transylvania University" Indiana Magazine of History (1934) 30#2 pp 139-48 online
  22. ↑ Andrea L. Turpin, "The Ideological Origins of the Women's College: Religion, Class, and Curriculum in the Educational Visions of Catharine Beecher and Mary Lyon," History of Education Quarterly, May 2010, Vol. 50 Issue 2, pp 133–158
  23. ↑ F. N. Boney, "'The Pioneer College for Women': Wesleyan Over a Century and a Half." Georgia Historical Quarterly (1988) pp: 519-532. in JSTOR
  24. ↑ Christie Anne Farnham, The education of the southern belle: Higher education and student socialization in the antebellum south (1994)
  25. ↑ Hoagland adds that this innovation as also advantageous for men because it would uplift them spiritually. Ronald W. Hogeland, "Coeducation of the Sexes at Oberlin College: A Study of Social Ideas in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America," Journal of Social History, (1972-73) 6#2 pp. 160-176 at p 161 in JSTOR
  26. ↑ Cally L. Waite, "The Segregation of Black Students at Oberlin College after Reconstruction," History of Education Quarterly (2001) 41#3 pp 344-64. in JSTOR
  27. ↑ Mabel Newcomer, A century of higher education for American women (1959). p 46
  28. ↑ Laurence Veysey, The Emergence of the American University (1965)
  29. ↑ Natalie A. Naylor, "'Holding High the Standard': The Influence of the American Education Society in Ante-Bellum Education," History of Education Quarterly (1984) 24#4 pp. 479-497 in JSTOR
  30. ↑ Rudolph, (1962) p 183
  31. ↑ Alan I. Marcus, ed., Engineering in a Land Grant Context: The Past, Present, and Future of an Idea. Marcus (2005)
  32. ↑ Louis Ferleger and William Lazonick, "Higher Education for an Innovative Economy: Land-grant Colleges and the Managerial Revolution in America," Business & Economic History 1994 23(1): 116-128
  33. ↑ Jim Weeks, "A New Race of Farmers: the Labor Rule, the Farmers' High School, and the Origins of the Pennsylvania State University," Pennsylvania History 1995 62(1): 5-30,
  34. ↑ Booker T. Gardner, "The educational contributions of Booker T. Washington". Journal of Negro Education (1975): 502-518. in JSTOR
  35. ↑ Edward H. Berman, "Tuskegee-In-Africa", Journal of Negro Education (1972) 41#2 pp. 99–112 in JSTOR
  36. ↑ B. D. Mayberry, A Century of Agriculture in the 1890 Land Grant Institutions and Tuskegee University, 1890-1990 (1991)
  37. ↑ Bureau of the Census, Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970 (1976) series H 752, 757, 761; Statistical Abstract: 2012 (2011) table 300
  38. ↑ Carl Diehl, Americans and German scholarship, 1770-1870 (1978)
  39. ↑ Henry Geitz, Jürgen Heideking, and Jurgen Herbst, eds. German influences on education in the United States to 1917 (1995)
  40. ↑ Roger L. Geiger, "Research, graduate education, and the ecology of American universities: An interpretive history." in Lester F. Goodchild and Harold S. Weschler, eds., The History of Higher Education (2nd ed, 1997), pp 273–89
  41. ↑ Christopher Jencks and David Riesman. The academic revolution (1968) ch 1.
  42. ↑ Laurence R. Veysey, The emergence of the American university (1970) is the standard history; see pp 121–79.
  43. ↑ Leonard V. Koos, The Junior College Movement (1924).
  44. ↑ Cohen and Brawer, The American Community College (4th ed. 2003) p 13–14
  45. ↑ Jesse P. Bogue, ed. American Junior Colleges (American council on education, 1948)
  46. ↑ Glenn Altschuler and Stuart Blumin, The GI Bill: The New Deal for Veterans (2009)
  47. ↑ Irving Bernstein, Guns or Butter: The Presidency of Lyndon Johnson (1994) pp 202–22
  48. ↑ Matt Krupnick, "States, federal government cracking down on for-profit colleges," CNNMoney March 12, 2014
  49. ↑ "For-Profit Schools" 179 recent articles and editorials from the New York Times
  50. ↑ Philip Gleason, Contending with Modernity: Catholic Higher Education in the Twentieth Century (Oxford U. Press, 1995.)
  51. ↑ LaBelle, Jeffrey (2011). Catholic Colleges in the 21st Century: A Road Map for Campus Ministry. Paulist Press.
  52. ↑ John Rodden, "Less 'Catholic,' More 'catholic'? American Catholic Universities Since Vatican II." Society (2013) 50#1 pp: 21-27.
  53. ↑ S. J. Currie, and L. Charles. "Pursuing Jesuit, Catholic identity and mission at US Jesuit colleges and universities." Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry and Practice (2011) 14#3 pp 4+ online
  54. ↑ Matthew Thomas Larsen, The Duty and Right of the Diocesan Bishop to Watch Over the Preservation and Strengthening of the Catholic Character of Catholic Universities in His Diocese" (PhD dissertation Catholic University of America, 2012)
  55. ↑ Bridget Marie Engelmeyer, "A Maryland First", Maryland Historical Magazine (1993) 78#3 pp 186–204
  56. ↑ Irene Harwarth; et al. (1997). Women's Colleges in the United States: History, Issues and Challenges. DIANE Publishing. p. 10.

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