Gender and higher education -- Seventh Day Baptist and farm roots -- Origins: the select school, 1836-1843 -- Alfred Academy: educational reform -- Kenyon's university years -- "No more thought of changing": women's equality -- "The exercise of equity": a voice for women -- Student ties -- "The past lives and shines in and through us."
Summary
"One of the nation's first coeducational colleges and an early leader in women's higher education, Alfred University offered a remarkably egalitarian environment for women in an era when their voices were silenced elsewhere. Susan Rumsey Strong shares the history of nineteenth-century Alfred, explaining its uniquely liberal environment by focusing on the individuals who created it and the sociocultural factors that contributed to it."--Jacket
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-207) and index