: Implementation
: Campus Life
Charge
We must be certain that becoming a coeducational college
is not just a matter of admitting male students. In fact,
we must be intentional about considering proactive steps
in all aspects of the College’s life to ensure that
this change has educational value and that the overall college
experience is enhanced for all of our students. While charting
this exciting future for the College, we ask that you be
mindful of our history of producing women of distinction.
We welcome your creative thinking on ways that we can continue
to do so as a coeducational institution and in ways that
perhaps can provide our male students with a distinctive
education. You should also examine the extracurricular and
social elements of a coeducational environment, seeking recommendations
that would enhance those aspects while sustaining or increasing
the intellectual experience of our students.
- Consider, in consultation with the appropriate faculty,
academic program, curricular, or pedagogical initiatives
that would enhance the College's ability to produce a consciously
co-educational environment. In such an environment women
and men will achieve academic distinction and will be aware
of and sensitive to the issues of gender both in and out
of the classroom.
- Examine the planning, implementation, and outcomes at
other colleges that have become co-educational in the last
ten years.
- Review all current extracurricular activities to determine
adjustments needed in a co-educational environment.
- Study alternative housing options for men on campus.
- Recommend any additional programming needed.
- Recommend any new extracurricular activities that will
be needed.
- Examine cultural, social, and athletic programs and
consider adjustments that will be needed.
- Review all student policies and recommend revisions
as necessary.
- Analyze all facility implications of a co-educational
environment.
The group should brainstorm how it can maximize the shared
learning experience from this change. For example, can the
College be intentional in the next couple of years in its
lecture series, in its arts and theatre programming, and
in its other activities about examining issues of gender?
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