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Ante-bellum and Reconstruction Eras
Oberlins co-ed walk (parallel walkways)
W.E.B. DuBois

• Gender, Race and the Curriculum

John Russworm
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Shifts at the End of the National Era

• Fewer grads entered public service
• Rise of popular democracy (Jacksonian democracy)
• Traditional curriculum v. practical curriculum
• Rise of nonsectarian university
• Rise of higher education shifts from building
  moral character to career advancement
• Development of the collegiate way of life

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Women and Education

• Creation of public school system impacts their
  higher education (normal schools)
• Troy Female Seminary Oberlin, 1833 and Mount
  Holyoke
• Seneca Falls Womens Rights Convention
• Vassar, 1861 Wellesley, 1870 Spelman, 1881
• Widespread fears of harming white women with
  too much education

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The Progressive Era

• Classical curriculum considered outdated
• Instead, students need practical education and
  differentiated education
• Rise of electives

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Black Higher Education

• Political context
• Ideological context
• Development of HBCUs
• Differences between public and private
• 2,132 enrolled in 1917 13,580 enrolled in 1927
• Debate over the place of Blacks in American
  society

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Questions for Discussion

• What do you make of the Yale Report and its
  defense of the liberal arts? What is/should be
  the role of professional training in
  undergraduate studies? When should students be
  able to specialize?
• How much differentiation in education is too
  much? How do black colleges and womens colleges
  fit here?
• What do all undergraduates need to know?
• What do you make of the role of
  funding/philanthropy in directing the path of
  higher learning?

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