25 Years of Coeducation. Columbia College Today

I dont think youd seduce known it was the premier year of coeducation, verbalizes Susan Kraham 87, who lived in Carman. She and other alumnae say that the transition to coeducation was ease by relationships with more than of age(p) Barnard educatees and mentoring by the Barnard faculty. I venerate if the transition was harder for Barnard women than capital of South Carolina, Kraham says. They were thither for the before and after. Columbia women by definition only had the after. Katherine Bouma 88 had a Barnard older as her Carman RA. That was orthogonal of them, to bring in some fourth-year women, she says. I had an quondam(a) female component part model, and she told me things like, Theyre not girls . theyre women. The coed bathrooms of Wien (formerly Johnson) and Furnald existed for more days Furnald until 1996 and Wien until a couple of eld ago (just as other schools be starting to prefer coed bathrooms to accommodate transgender students). It was actu eithe ry strange to be an RA to a football team and have to civilise them for playing their radios as well as loud, when theyd seen you in a towel! says Rita Pietropinto-Kitt 93, who was an RA in Wien. \nUniversity wellness Service had for years served female potash alum students, undergraduate technology students and other women on campus. With a pertly population of hundreds of young women coming in, a Womens Health come to was opened in John Jay in fall 1983. The Colleges focusing Service was expanded, and educational syllabuss, such as on intimate harassment and staying safe, were instituted. It was a decent conjunction that took care of us and didnt let us be interpreted advantage of, Bouma says. educatee activities had been coed for years, and the Colleges women found no glass ceilings to break. They turmoil in and in many prize took over, in well-chosen ways, Rosenthal says. By gradation time for the enlighten of 87, women held about 75 percent of the leaders roles i n student organizations and nearly sweep the graduation awards. The senior class president, salutatory speaker and valedictorian were all women. The only men on the program were from the administration! Sovern belatedly remarked of Class solar day 1987.