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- And so, on the heels of St. Peter’s in 1966 and Georgetown (as well as Connecticut neighbors Yale and Trinity) in 1969, Fairfield University officially became coeducational in 1970, the same year as Boston College.
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The most recent period of switching in the 1960s and 1970s, during which Dartmouth, Princeton, Yale, and a host of elite liberal arts colleges became coeducational, is shown to have increased the fraction of un-dergraduates in coeducational schools by only a small amount.
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Work on modernising the present college site began in 2001; this coincided with the Further Education Funding Council changing to the Learning and Skills Council. The initial phase was completed in 2002; this was the main college building for a few years before it became apparent that further expansion was necessary.
Fairfield College is a Specialist College for young people with additional needs. It forms part of the Fairfield Trust, a local registered charity. The college is based in Dilton Marsh, and offers a wide range of courses and residential services.
The move to coeducation often has been depicted as sporadic and episodic. But Goldin and Katz find, to the contrary, that the change to coeducation was fairly continuous from 1835 to the 1950s before it accelerated (especially for Catholic institutions) in the 1960s and 1970s.
After the Islamization policies in the early 1980s, the government established Women's colleges and Women's universities to promote education among women who were hesitant to study in mixed-sex environment. Today, however, most universities and a large number of schools in urban areas are co-educational.
Rather than being episodic and caused by financial pressures brought about by wars and recessions, the process of switching from single-sex to coeducational colleges was relatively continuous from 1835 to the 1950s before it accelerated (especially for Catholic institutions) in the 1960s and 1970s.
Fairfield College is a Specialist College for students with learning disabilities and difficulties; it is a registered charity, with residential, day and weekend courses.
