Western College for Women
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Western College for Women was a women's college in Oxford, Ohio between 1855 and 1974.
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[edit] History
Western College was founded in 1855 as Western Female Seminary. It was a daughter school of Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts.
Western remained a women's college until 1970 when it formed a "committee of cooperation" with the adjacent Miami University, which opened enrollment between the colleges on a limited basis. This allowed Western students to take classes at Miami and use Miami's computer and hospital facilities, for example, while allowing Miami students access to intramural fields, library space, and cross-country runways on Western grounds. Before the 1973-74 school years, both presidents signed an agreement for an affiliation between the two schools. In 1976, Western became part of Miami.
[edit] Notable alumnae
- Ann Marcus, television writer
- Donna Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human Services under President Clinton
[edit] Civil rights movement
In June of 1964 a civil rights demonstration orientation program for Freedom Summer was held at Western College. Two days after they left for Mississippi, three young volunteers were murdered. Public uproar helped pass the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act a few months later.
[edit] Western today
Today, most of the Western campus is the home of Miami University’s interdisciplinary Western College Program.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Western History from Ohiohistorycentral.org
- Western Female Seminary records, 1863-1973
- The Western Round-Up Student Newspaper
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