ma10 Coeducation Collection, 1870-1997 Finding Aid Finding aid prepared by Elaine Trehub, Briana Cahill, Daria D'Arienzo. Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Amherst College Archives and Special Collections

Amherst, MA

Finding aid encoded using Perl scripts and edited in XMetal 2.0. Encoded by Sarah Sorscher. 2002-07-25 Finding aid written in English. 2005-09-23 ma10 converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02-5c.xsl (sy2003-10-15). Amherst College Archives and Special Collections Coeducation Collection, 1870-1997 Finding Aid Processed: 1998 - 1999 By: Elaine Trehub, Archives Consultant Finding Aid: May 1999 Prepared by: Elaine Trehub, Archives Consultant Briana Cahill, Archives and Special Collections Associate Edited by: Daria D'Arienzo, Archivist of the College Listed by: Elaine Trehub, Archives Consultant Briana Cahill, Archives and Special Collections Associate Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Collection Overview Amherst College Coeducation Collection 1870-1997 2 records storage boxes (2 linear ft.) Amherst College Archives and Special Collections Chronologies, articles, newspaper clippings, and committee reports relating to coeducation at Amherst College and its subsequent anniversaries. The bulk of the collection covers planning for coeducation and responses to coeducation by Alumni, Faculty, Students, Amherst's president John Ward, and the Trustees of Amherst College. This is an artificial collection created by compiling related materials from other collections. English. Organization of the Collection

This collection is organized into five series:

1. General Materials 2. Anniversaries 3. Clippings and other Misc. Published Materials, 1870- 4. Planning for Coeducation and Its Consolidation 5. The Final Report Information on Use Terms of Access and Use

There is no restriction on access to the Coeducation Collection for research use.

Requests for permission to publish material from the Coeducation Collection should be directed to the Archivist of the College.

Preferred Citation

Please use the following format when citing materials from this collection:

[Identification of item], in Coeducation Collection [Box #, folder #], Amherst College Archives and Special Collections, Amherst College Library

Additional Formats

The collection was digitized as part of the Five College Archives Digital Access Project in 1999. It is available on the Web as part of the Five College Archives Digital Access Project. Any materials added after that date are not available online, but are so noted in this finding aid.

History of the Collection

The Coeducation Collection is an artificial collection created by the Archives and Special Collections department of Amherst College out of material from other collections.

Processed: 1998 - 1999 By: Elaine Trehub, Archives Consultant Finding Aid: May 1999 Prepared by: Elaine Trehub, Archives Consultant Briana Cahill, Archives and Special Collections Associate Edited by: Daria D'Arienzo, Archivist of the College Listed by: Elaine Trehub, Archives Consultant Briana Cahill, Archives and Special Collections Associate Search Terms Amherst College--History--Sources. Amherst College--Students. Coeducation--Massachusetts--Amherst. Women--Education--Massachusetts--Amherst. Amherst College. Amherst College. Committee on Educational Policy. Amherst College. President's Task Force on College Size and Coeducation. Amherst College. Select Committee on the Quality of Undergraduate Life. Additional Information Series 1: GENERAL MATERIALS 1 1 General file (includes related Objects Inventory sheets, front) 1 2 Chronologies 1 3 Retrospective views. 1930- (includes Title IX Self-Evaluation Report, July-August 1976) 1 4 Retrospective views: Amherst and Coeducation: a Summary, March 1974 1 5 [Institutional models for coeducation], 1972-1974 1 6 Exhibits: 1985 (arranged by Claudia Kalb '85 and Carmen MacDougall '85) 1 7 Special events: [1988]- Series 2: ANNIVERSARIES 1 8 Tenth Anniversary, 1984-1986 1 9 Twentieth Anniversary, 1996 1 10 Haydel, A. and Lasher, K. The Fairest College? Twenty years of women at Amherst, c1997. Series 3: CLIPPINGS AND OTHER MISC. PUBLISHED MATERIALS, 1870- 1 11 1870-1972 1 12 Beecher, H.W., Semicentennial address, 1871 1 13 1973 1 14 1974

Folder 14 includes material that was added after 1999 and so was not digitized for the Five College Archives Digital Access Project. (http://clio.fivecolleges.edu)

1 15 Press releases, Nov. 2, 1974 1 15 Amherst Student, front page, Nov. 2, 1974 1 16 1975 1 17 1976-1979 1 18 1980- Series 4: PLANNING FOR COEDUCATION AND ITS CONSOLIDATION Sub-series A: Responses Within the College Community 1 19 Alumni: response to coeducation- 1974 1 20 Faculty: response to coeducation- 1972-1974 1 21 Faculty: Reports of the Department Chairmen, "Appendix C" [undated; 1973?] 1 22 President: response to coeducation - The President's Recommendation on Coeducation, October 1972 1 23 President: Ward, John W., Women at Amherst College, Special report by the President, [1974]. 20 copies 1 24 Students: response to coeducation- 1970, 1973 1 25 Students: Coeducation at Amherst Now (CAN) -Newsletter, March 1973 1 26 Trustees: response to coeducation- 1870, 1871, 1973, 1974 1 27 Trustees: The Trustee Statement on Coeducation, Jan. 1973. 11 copies Sub-series B: Preliminary [and some final] reports, drafts, correspondence (chronologically arranged), 1971- 1 28 1969 Jan. - College Council Report, Women Visitors At Amherst 1 29 1971 Jan. - President's Advisory Committee on Long Range Planning, Report of the Task Force on College Size and Coeducation 1 30 1972 July - Report of the Select Committee on Coeducation. 5 copies 1 31 1972-1974 - Committee on Priorities and Resources: reports, estimates 1 32 1973 March - Greene, T.P., A Modest Suggestion for Coeducation at Amherst in full cooperation with Smith and Mount Holyoke 1 33 1973 Apr.-1975 Apr. - Visiting Committee on Coeducation: correspondence 1 34 1974 Jan. - Visiting Committee on Coeducation: reports, miscellany 1 35 1974 February - Office of the President, The Further Consideration of Coeducation. Work in progress. 2 copies 1 36 1974 February - Committee on Educational Policy, Preliminary Report on Coeducation and College Size 1 37 1974 May - Committee on Educational Policy, Draft of Final Report on Coeducation and Size 1 38 1974 June - Final Report of the Committee on Educational Policy on Coeducation and Size 1 39 1974 June - Ad Hoc Committee on Coeducation in the Five College Context, Draft of Final Report. 3 copies 1 40 1974-1975 - Visiting Committee on Coeducation: [preliminary draft] of report.2 copies 1 41 Final Report of the Amherst Visiting Committee on Coeducation. 2 copies 1 42 1980 January - Report of the Select Committee on the Quality of Undergraduate Life. 4 copies Series 5: THE FINAL REPORT 2 1 The Casebook on Coeducation at Amherst College, September 1974. In hard cover looseleaf binder. 2 2-5 The Casebook on Coeducation at Amherst College, September 1974. 4 copies in 4 folders