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Women’s Higher Education in the United StatesResearch at Women’s Colleges, 1890–1940

Women’s Higher Education in the United States: Research at Women’s Colleges, 1890–1940 [This chapter explores the introduction and integration of research into women’s colleges in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Research culture developed more quickly in such colleges as Vassar, Smith, Mount Holyoke, Barnard, Wellesley, and Bryn Mawr, all of which were independent, established early, and possessed relatively greater resources than other women’s colleges. But Goucher, Sweet Briar, and other younger colleges hired women scholars with PhD’s in the social sciences and those faculty also pursued research as part of their professional identity and incorporated research into their teaching with their women students. This chapter examines the ways both student research and research conducted by faculty were integrated into and transformed the largely teaching cultures of small women’s colleges. This chapter examines women social science scholars in the colleges and the strategies they developed to ensure strong social science programs in their institutions, to train young women in social sciences, to push their institutions to accommodate their research commitments, and to use their research to influence policy and reform at the local, national, and international levels.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Women’s Higher Education in the United StatesResearch at Women’s Colleges, 1890–1940

Part of the Historical Studies in Education Book Series
Editors: Nash, Margaret A.
Dzuback, Mary Ann
Women’s Higher Education in the United States — Jul 29, 2017
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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
ISBN
978-1-137-59083-1
Pages
139 –159
DOI
10.1057/978-1-137-59084-8_7
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[This chapter explores the introduction and integration of research into women’s colleges in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Research culture developed more quickly in such colleges as Vassar, Smith, Mount Holyoke, Barnard, Wellesley, and Bryn Mawr, all of which were independent, established early, and possessed relatively greater resources than other women’s colleges. But Goucher, Sweet Briar, and other younger colleges hired women scholars with PhD’s in the social sciences and those faculty also pursued research as part of their professional identity and incorporated research into their teaching with their women students. This chapter examines the ways both student research and research conducted by faculty were integrated into and transformed the largely teaching cultures of small women’s colleges. This chapter examines women social science scholars in the colleges and the strategies they developed to ensure strong social science programs in their institutions, to train young women in social sciences, to push their institutions to accommodate their research commitments, and to use their research to influence policy and reform at the local, national, and international levels.]

Published: Jul 29, 2017

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