VALERIE HAMMOND

The initial goal of Women's Colleges were to educate girls on how to be an overall productive woman. It taught them the basics on being a wife, mother, and how to be accepted in male dominated professions. Women colleges were designed to educated women in professional roles.

Intercollegiate sports were organized games that caused specific college teams to visit and play against other teams from different colleges all over the country. According to the text, John Thelin states, " As noted in the preceding chapter, intercollegiate sports shared with other extracurricular activities the characteristic of originally having been run by students. However, the faculty and administration attempted to gain control multiple times, but they usually failed because of determined undergraduates.

During this time, institutions started normalizing the enrollment of both men and women. According to the text, the idea behind coeducation was to provide equal educational opportunities between the genders while improving male education (Thelin, 2011). Coeducation also increased college enrollment in a time when universities in the United States embarked on fundamental changes. Coeducation supported male's desires to attend institutions with females. Initially, It was men who advocated

Black colleges started in the mist of discrimination and racsim. Racial segregation was very normal in the United States. The black colleges were inevitably underdeveloped in an educational and neglectful sense. Based off the text, these institutions barely offered college-level instruction and most were confined to elementary and secondary studies(Thelin, 2011). These colleges were underfunded and neglected, however, despite the disadvantages, many of these historic institutions are open today.

During the 1990 Women moved on to college campus and taking a place in the college hierarchy. The women enrolled in college wanted the option to become professional or wives.

Despite being supportive of the national war effort, many colleges worried that the war would cause the enrollment rate to decline. World War 1 greatly impacted campuses. According to the book, Jonathan Frankel stated that 540 colleges and universities across the United States "turned themselves into training campuses, and roughly 125,000 men were inducted into the Students' Army Training Corps (Thelin, 2011). However, student enlistments varied by geographical location. World War I produced heroes among college students. They assisted in supporting war efforts. Many college also received large donations in the name of college student war heroes.