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Sep 22, 2019 · September 22, 2019. In April 1969, five months after Yale University announced it was becoming coeducational, its first female undergrads got stuck with a nickname they would never quite shake.
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Sep 19, 2019 · The decision to coeducate came unexpectedly — Yale hosted a coeducation week in 1968 that culminated in a demonstration on Cross Campus advocating for the University to admit female students to the College.
Apr 21, 2017 · When modernity pushed the two schools to admit the opposite sex, it was no surprise that they turned to one another — just as they had for the first 100 years of their relationship. Rumors of coeducation first started in New Haven. No one cause, individual or moment led Yale to open its doors to women in 1969.
Sep 16, 2019 · And it was students, led by Avi Soifer, who launched “Coeducation Week,” which brought 750 young women from Vassar, Smith, Bryn Mawr, and other colleges to experience life at Yale. That experiment, and the surrounding publicity, brought the issue of coeducation to a head.
Sep 18, 2019 · A half century ago – almost to the day – 575 women broke 268 years of tradition and officially registered as Yale undergraduate students, along with 4,000 men. There were 151 sophomores and 194 juniors admitted as transfer students and assigned to live in the residential colleges.
An uncaptioned photo from the 1969 Yale Banner likely depicts Coeducation Week, a student-organized event in which nearly 700 women from other colleges came to Yale to stay in the residential colleges and attend classes.
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Jan 18, 2023 · In 1966, Yale President Kingman Brewster, Jr. proposed establishing a women’s coordinate college at Yale, modeled after institutions such as Radcliffe College at Harvard University, Pembrooke College at Brown University, and Barnard College at Columbia University.
