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Coeducation at Amherst and Trinity College

Coeducation at Amherst and Trinity College . Katherine Rorer . Research Question . Question: What factors led to the decision to co-educate at Trinity (in fall 1969) and Amherst (in fall 1975), and how were the first generation of women students treated at these two colleges?. Thesis .

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Coeducation at Amherst and Trinity College

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  1. Coeducation at Amherst and Trinity College Katherine Rorer

  2. Research Question • Question: What factors led to the decision to co-educate at Trinity (in fall 1969) and Amherst (in fall 1975), and how were the first generation of women students treated at these two colleges?

  3. Thesis • Neither college strove to admit women on the basis of equal opportunity for all, but for personal advancement and competitive reasons. At both colleges the first generation of women to attend met a large amount of resistance and harassment, as both fellow students and faculty grappled with the changes of co-education in a traditionally male dominant school.

  4. Most Comprehensive Sources • Kit Lasher and AubanHaydel’sThe Fairest College: Twenty Years of Women at Amherst • Peter Knapp’s Trinity College in the Twentieth Century • Professor Noreen Channels: Survey of Trinity College Alumnae • New York Times 1993-2008

  5. Lasher and Haydel • Compilation of interviews from the first women to attend Amherst after it went co-ed in 1975. • Displayed the challenges and harassment these women faced in all aspects: academics, athletics, social life, and residential life. • For example: Men would come up to women and ask them how it felt to ruin Amherst. Men were very resentful to have women at the college. • Common view of female students was that Amherst was so focused on making quotas financially for female acceptance, that they forgot to make the social and cultural transitions into Amherst easier.

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