The purpose of this page is to keep a running list of useful links concerning the history of women’s higher education, especially, but not exclusively, concerning economics education in the United States. Comments and suggestions most appreciated.
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Bibliographies
Association of Collegiate Alumnae. Contributions Towards A Bibliography of the Higher Education of Women. Boston, Trustees of the Public Library (1897), Series II. No. 61.
Association of Collegiate Alumnae. Contributions Towards A Bibliography of the Higher Education of Women. Supplement. Boston, Trustees of the Public Library (June, 1905), Series III. No. 11.
United States Department of Labor, Women’s Bureau. Bulletin No. 134, Summaries of Studies on the Economic Status of Women (1935).
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General Histories
Education of Women by M. Carey Thomas, President of Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Monograph prepared for the St. Louis World Fair of 1904.
Marion Talbot and Lois Kimball Mathews Rosenberry. The History of the American Association of University Women, 1881-1931. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1931.
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Archival Material
College Women: Documenting the History of Women in Higher Education.
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Specific Universities
University of California
From the Bancroft Library: Women at Cal: When California Passed the Woman Suffrage Amendment, 1910-1915.
Great photo of Jessica B. Peixotto.
University of Chicago
From the University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center’s Exhibit On Equal Terms, Educating Women at the University of Chicago, curated by Monica Mercado and Katherine Turk (on view since March 1, 2009).
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…A significant departure in the Chicago situation was the recognition of women both as faculty members and students. Women had had no recognized status in the early Hopkins and Clark experience, though at Hopkins an individual like Christine Ladd might be informally accepted and at Clark President Hall had favored inclusion of women students. One of the first undertakings of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae, organized in 1882 (later the American Association of University Women), was a study of the possibilities of graduate work for women [ACA, Graduate Study(1883)]; hitherto, in Dean [Marion] Talbot’s words, it had been “a distinctly masculine procession that was advancing into the field of research and scholarship.” At Chicago women were appointed to the faculty and awarded graduate fellowships from the start. The first number of the Quarterly Calendarof the University, June, 1892, listed, as members of the staff of the new university, not only “Alice Freeman Palmer, Ph.D., Litt.D., Professor of History and Acting Dean (of Women) in the Graduate School of the University Colleges,” but also “Julia E. Bulkley, Associate Professor of Pedagogy and Dean (of Women) in the Academic College.” The same announcement carried the names of six women who were to be recipients of fellowships….
Source: W. Carson Ryan. Studies in Early Graduate Education. The Johns Hopkins, Clark University, The University of Chicago. Bulletin Number Thirty, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (New York, 1939) pp. 119-120.
Columbia-Barnard
From the Columbia250 celebration. Timeline: Women at Columbia.
From the Columbia Alumni Association’s website (The Low Down): History of Women at Columbia (March 12, 2018).
Barnard Archives and Special Collections blog. (last entry July 2018)
Harvard-Radcliffe
From the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University: It’s Complicated: 375 Years of Women at Harvard.
Radcliffe College Archives Digital Collections.
Radcliffe College courses of instruction, 1893/94–1961/62
Radcliffe Annual Reports of the President & Treasurer, 1879-1988.
Johns Hopkins University
From the Johns Hopkins Magazine, A Timeline of Women at Hopkins. Based on “Women at the Johns Hopkins University: A History” by Julia B. Morgan and Johns Hopkins: Knowledge for the World, by Mame Warren (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000)
University of Pennsylvania
Women at Penn: Timeline of Pioneers and Achievements
Stanford University
Woman @ Stanford Exhibit of the Stanford archives.
Wellesley College
Welleseley College Archives Image Gallery.
Yale University
Alumnae Graduate School, Yale University, 1894-1920 (New Haven, 1920).
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