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Series 1: GENERAL MATERIALS
Series 2: ANNIVERSARIES
Series 3: CLIPPINGS AND OTHER MISC. PUBLISHED
MATERIALS,
1870-
Series 4: PLANNING FOR COEDUCATION AND ITS
CONSOLIDATION
Series 5: THE FINAL REPORT
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Coeducation Collection,
1870-1997
Finding Aid
Finding aid prepared by Elaine Trehub, Briana
Cahill, Daria D'Arienzo.
Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation.
© 2002
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Title:
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Amherst College Coeducation Collection |
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Dates:
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1870-1997 |
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Abstract:
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Chronologies, articles, newspaper clippings, and committee
reports relating to coeducation at Amherst College and its
subsequent anniversaries. The bulk of the collection covers
planning for coeducation and responses to coeducation by
Alumni, Faculty, Students, Amherst's president John Ward, and
the Trustees of Amherst College. This is an artificial
collection created by compiling related materials from other
collections. |
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Extent:
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2 records storage
boxes(2 linear ft.) |
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Language:
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English. |
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This collection is organized into five series:
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Series 1: GENERAL MATERIALS
Box
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Folder
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1 |
General file (includes related Objects
Inventory sheets, front)
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Retrospective views. 1930- (includes Title
IX Self-Evaluation Report,
July-August 1976)
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Retrospective views: Amherst and
Coeducation: a Summary,
March 1974
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[Institutional models for coeducation],
1972-1974
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Exhibits:
(arranged by Claudia Kalb '85 and Carmen MacDougall
'85)
1985
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Special events:
[1988]-
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Series 2: ANNIVERSARIES
Box
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Folder
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Tenth Anniversary,
1984-1986
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Twentieth Anniversary,
1996
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Haydel, A. and Lasher, K. The Fairest
College? Twenty years of women at Amherst,
c1997.
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Series 3: CLIPPINGS AND OTHER MISC. PUBLISHED
MATERIALS,
1870-
Box
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Folder
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11 |
1870-1972
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Beecher, H.W., Semicentennial address,
1871
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Press releases,
Nov. 2, 1974
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Amherst Student, front page,
Nov. 2, 1974
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Series 4: PLANNING FOR COEDUCATION AND ITS
CONSOLIDATION
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Sub-series A: Responses Within the College
Community
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Box
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Folder
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Alumni: response to coeducation-
1974
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Faculty: response to coeducation-
1972-1974
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Faculty: Reports of the Department
Chairmen, "Appendix C" [undated;
1973?]
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President: response to coeducation - The
President's Recommendation on Coeducation,
October 1972
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President: Ward, John W., Women at Amherst
College, Special report by the President,
20 copies
[1974].
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Students: response to coeducation-
1970, 1973
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Students: Coeducation at Amherst Now (CAN)
-Newsletter,
March 1973
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Trustees: response to coeducation-
1870, 1871, 1973, 1974
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Trustees: The Trustee Statement on
Coeducation,
11 copies
Jan. 1973.
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Sub-series B: Preliminary [and some final]
reports, drafts, correspondence (chronologically
arranged),
1971-
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Box
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Folder
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- College Council Report, Women Visitors At
Amherst
1969 Jan.
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- President's Advisory Committee on Long Range
Planning, Report of the Task Force on College Size
and Coeducation
1971 Jan.
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- Report of the Select Committee on Coeducation. 5
copies
1972 July
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- Committee on Priorities and Resources: reports,
estimates
1972-1974
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- Greene, T.P., A Modest Suggestion for Coeducation
at Amherst in full cooperation with Smith and Mount
Holyoke
1973 March
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- Visiting Committee on Coeducation:
correspondence
1973 Apr.-1975 Apr.
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- Visiting Committee on Coeducation: reports,
miscellany
1974 Jan.
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- Office of the President, The Further Consideration
of Coeducation. Work in progress. 2
copies
1974 February
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- Committee on Educational Policy, Preliminary Report
on Coeducation and College Size
1974 February
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- Committee on Educational Policy, Draft of Final
Report on Coeducation and Size
1974 May
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- Final Report of the Committee on Educational Policy
on Coeducation and Size
1974 June
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- Ad Hoc Committee on Coeducation in the Five College
Context, Draft of Final Report. 3 copies
1974 June
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- Visiting Committee on Coeducation: [preliminary
draft] of report.2 copies
1974-1975
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Final Report of the Amherst Visiting
Committee on Coeducation. 2 copies
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- Report of the Select Committee on the Quality of
Undergraduate Life. 4 copies
1980 January
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Series 5: THE FINAL REPORT
Box
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Folder
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The Casebook on Coeducation at Amherst
College,
In hard cover looseleaf binder.
September 1974.
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The Casebook on Coeducation at Amherst
College,
4 copies in 4 folders
September 1974.
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