Catholic Women S Colleges In America

Author : Tracy Schier,Cynthia Russett
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2003-05-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780801877667

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Catholic Women's Colleges in America by Tracy Schier,Cynthia Russett Pdf

More than 150 colleges in the United States were founded by nuns, and over time they have served many constituencies, setting some educational trends while reflecting others. In Catholic Women's Colleges in America, Tracy Schier, Cynthia Russett, and their coauthors provide a comprehensive history of these institutions and how they met the challenges of broader educational change. The authors explore how and for whom the colleges were founded and the role of Catholic nuns in their founding and development. They examine the roots of the founders' spirituality and education; they discuss curricula, administration, and student life. And they describe the changes prompted by both the church and society beginning in the 1960s, when decreasing enrollments led some colleges to opt for coeducation, while others restructured their curricula, partnered with other Catholic colleges, developed specialized programs, or sought to broaden their base of funding. Contributors: Dorothy M. Brown, Georgetown University; David R. Contosta, Chestnut Hill College; Jill Ker Conway, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Carol Hurd Green, Boston College; Monika K. Hellwig, Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities; Karen Kennelly, president emerita of Mount Saint Mary's College, Los Angeles; Jeanne Knoerle, president emerita of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College; Thomas M. Landy, College of the Holy Cross; Kathleen A. Mahoney, Humanitas Foundation; Melanie M. Morey, Leadership and Legacy Associates, Boston; Mary J. Oates, Regis College; Jane C. Redmont, Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley; Cynthia Russett, Yale University; Tracy Schier, Boston College.

Author : Irene Harwarth,Mindi Maline,Elizabeth DeBra
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780788143243

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Women's Colleges in the United States by Irene Harwarth,Mindi Maline,Elizabeth DeBra Pdf

Women's colleges have had a long and prestigious role in the education of American women. This volume offers insights into the continuing significant role of women's colleges in higher education. It provides a brief history of women's colleges in the U.S. in the context of social and legislative issues that have affected the country, examines how women's colleges have managed to survive in an era of coeducational institutions and equal opportunities in education, and identifies the unique features of women's colleges that make them attractive to young women. Charts and tables. Extensive bibliography.

Author : Jane Lamm Carroll,Joanne Cavallaro,Sharon Doherty
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780739170908

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Liberating Sanctuary by Jane Lamm Carroll,Joanne Cavallaro,Sharon Doherty Pdf

The essays in Liberating Sanctuary: 100 Years of Women's Education at the College of St. Catherine, edited by Jane Lamm Carroll, Joanne Cavallaro, and Sharon Doherty examine key figures, decisions, and ideas over the College's 100 year history, linking the story through a cent...

Author : Catholic University of America
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015074859888

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Educational Research Monographs by Catholic University of America Pdf

Author : Susan L. Poulson,Leslie Miller-Bernal
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780826515421

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Challenged by Coeducation by Susan L. Poulson,Leslie Miller-Bernal Pdf

Challenged by Coeducation details the responses of women's colleges to the most recent wave of Women's colleges originated in the mid-nineteenth century as a response to women's exclusion from higher education. Women's academic successes and their persistent struggles to enter men's colleges resulted in coeducation rapidly becoming the norm, however. Still, many prestigious institutions remained single-sex, notably most of the Ivy League and all of the Seven Sisters colleges. In the mid-twentieth century colleges' concerns about finances and enrollments, as well as ideological pressures to integrate formerly separate social groups, led men's colleges, and some women's colleges, to become coeducational. The admission of women to practically all men's colleges created a serious challenge for women's colleges. Most people no longer believed women's colleges were necessary since women had virtually unlimited access to higher education. Even though research spawned by the women's movement indicated the benefits to women of a "room of their own," few young women remained interested in applying to women's colleges. Challenged by Coeducation details the responses of women's colleges to this latest wave of coeducation. Case studies written expressly for this volume include many types of women's colleges-Catholic and secular; Seven Sisters and less prestigious; private and state; liberal arts and more applied; northern, southern, and western; urban and rural; independent and coordinated with a coeducational institution. They demonstrate the principal ways women's colleges have adapted to the new coeducational era: some have been taken over or closed, but most have changed by admitting men and thereby becoming coeducational, or by offering new programs to different populations. Some women's colleges, mostly those that are in cities, connected to other colleges, and prestigious with a high endowment, still enjoy success. Despite their dramatic drop in numbers, from 250 to fewer than 60 today, women's colleges are still important, editors Miller-Bernal and Poulson argue. With their commitment to enhancing women's lives, women's colleges and formerly women's colleges can serve as models of egalitarian coeducation.

Author : Rosemary Skinner Keller,Rosemary Radford Ruether,Marie Cantlon
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Women
ISBN : 025334686X

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Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America: Women and religion: methods of study and reflection by Rosemary Skinner Keller,Rosemary Radford Ruether,Marie Cantlon Pdf

A fundamental and well-illustrated reference collection for anyone interested in the role of women in North American religious life.

Author : Rosemary Skinner Keller,Rosemary Radford Ruether,Marie Cantlon
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 1443 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006-04-19
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780253346858

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Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America, Set by Rosemary Skinner Keller,Rosemary Radford Ruether,Marie Cantlon Pdf

A fundamental and well-illustrated reference collection for anyone interested in the role of women in North American religious life.

Author : Sister Mary John Francis Schuh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : English language
ISBN : UOM:39015070471605

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The Status of Freshman English in Selected Catholic Women's Colleges by Sister Mary John Francis Schuh Pdf

Author : Christina R. Pinkston,Elizabethada A. Wright
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781793636225

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Catholic Women’s Rhetoric in the United States by Christina R. Pinkston,Elizabethada A. Wright Pdf

This collection analyzes the rhetoric used by American Catholic Women of various periods, races, ethnicities, sexualities, and classes. Taken together, the essays reveal a shared ethos of resisting a powerful institution’s efforts to silence the women.

Author : Kendall Hunt,Ellis A. Joseph,Ronald J. Nuzzi,John O. Geiger
Publisher : IAP
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003-08-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781607527664

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Handbook of Research on Catholic Higher Education by Kendall Hunt,Ellis A. Joseph,Ronald J. Nuzzi,John O. Geiger Pdf

The Handbook of Research of Catholic Higher Education provides an important and timely overview for scholars and students interested in understanding this important sector of private higher education. More importantly, it is an important resource for those faculty, staff, and administrators interested in shaping the distinctiveness of Catholic colleges and universities. The Handbook provides chapters presenting a thematic overview of a particular element of Catholic higher education and in addition provides an extensive bibliography resource of further reading. While some of the chapters will appeal to those with specialized interests, e.g. legal affairs, finance, and community relations, the chapters on mission and religious identity, history, and the documents on Catholic higher education provide an important perspective on the challenges facing Catholic higher education and should be read by everyone involved in Catholic colleges and universities. The Handbook of Research of Catholic Higher Education is an important resource for understanding and shaping the distinctiveness of Catholic higher education.

Author : Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber,Denise Leckenby
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Education
ISBN : 0739105825

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Women in Catholic Higher Education by Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber,Denise Leckenby Pdf

The risk-taking and creative thought inaugurated here by editors Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber and Denise Leckenby will undoubtedly serve as a model for other scholars fully engaged, both as professionals and as social individuals, in careers and lives on Catholic campuses."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Margaret M. McGuinness
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814795576

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Called to Serve by Margaret M. McGuinness Pdf

For many Americans, nuns and sisters are the face of the Catholic Church. Far more visible than priests, Catholic women religious teach at schools, found hospitals, offer food to the poor, and minister to those in need. Their work has shaped the American Catholic Church throughout its history. McGuinness provides the reader with an overview of the history of Catholic women religious in American life, from the colonial period to the present.

Author : Judy Green,Jeanne LaDuke
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780821843765

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Pioneering Women in American Mathematics by Judy Green,Jeanne LaDuke Pdf

"This book is the result of a study in which the authors identified all of the American women who earned PhD's in mathematics before 1940, and collected extensive biographical and bibliographical information about each of them. By reconstructing as complete a picture as possible of this group of women, Green and LaDuke reveal insights into the larger scientific and cultural communities in which they lived and worked." "The book contains an extended introductory essay, as well as biographical entries for each of the 228 women in the study. The authors examine family backgrounds, education, careers, and other professional activities. They show that there were many more women earning PhD's in mathematics before 1940 than is commonly thought." "The material will be of interest to researchers, teachers, and students in mathematics, history of mathematics, history of science, women's studies, and sociology."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Judy Barrett Litoff,Judith McDonnell
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : European Americans
ISBN : 0824053060

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European Immigrant Women in the United States by Judy Barrett Litoff,Judith McDonnell Pdf

Author : Mary Rosalia Flaherty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Catholic Church
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042832217

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Patterns of Administration in Catholic Colleges for Women in the United States by Mary Rosalia Flaherty Pdf