coeducational
(adjective)
The integrated education of male and female students in the same institution.
Examples of coeducational in the following topics:
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Education and Unequal Treatment in the Classroom
- In the 1970s and 1980s, some of these coordinate colleges were absorbed into the larger university to create coeducational (coed) universities with both men and women.
- Today, five still operate as women's-only colleges, Radcliffe no longer accepts students, and Vassar is coeducational.
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Women and Education
- The University of Iowa became the first coeducational public or state university in the United States in 1855, and for much of the next century, public universities (and land-grant universities in particular) would lead the way in mixed-gender higher education.
- There also were many private coeducational universities founded in the nineteenth century, especially west of the Mississippi River.
- Notable examples include the prestigious Seven Sisters; within this association of colleges, Vassar College is now coeducational and Radcliffe College has merged with Harvard University.
- Other notable women's colleges that have become coeducational include Wheaton College in Massachusetts; Ohio Wesleyan Female College in Ohio; Skidmore College, Wells College, and Sarah Lawrence College in New York state; Goucher College in Maryland; and Connecticut College.