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Coordinate Colleges for American Women explores the history of coordinate colleges a separate school of higher learning for women connected to an older, all-male institution. Using examples in the Midwest and New York, the author shows they were created to meet the founding institution´s converging interests not to improve the education of women.

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Coordinate Colleges for American Women: A Convergence of Interests, 1947-78 explores the history of the coordinate college-a separate school of higher learning for women connected to an older, all-male institution. This book places special emphasis on three (previously all-male) liberal arts colleges located in the Midwest and upstate New York. They established women´s coordinate colleges in the years following World War II, but ended them by 1980, becoming fully coeducational. The author draws on new primary sources to show that, in each case, a coordinate college was created to meet the converging interests of the founding institution-not to improve the education of women. The work is set in the context of four major social movements during the mid-to-late twentieth century involving civil rights, student rights, antiwar protest, and women´s liberation.

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List of Tables - Acknowledgments - About the Author - Introduction - Part I Engendering Change - A Hybrid - The World Turned Upside Down - Part II Three Colleges - A Bequest in Search of a Home - Unintended Consequences - A Fine Cause - Part III Getting to a New Place - Joining the Parade - Three Campuses Revisited - Conclusions - Bibliography - Index.

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Linda C. Morice is Professor Emerita in the Department of Educational Leadership at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. She earned her Ph.D. from Saint Louis University.

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