The Transformation of Women’s Collegiate Education The Legacy of Virginia Gildersleeve /

• Main Author: Dilley, Patrick (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Education.; School management and organization.; School administration.; Educational policy.; ducation and state.; Education > History.; History of Education.; Administration, Organization and Leadership.; Educational Policy and Politics.

This book examines the life of Virginia Gildersleeve, the dean of Barnard College from 1911 to 1947, who dedicated her life to expanding women’s collegiate opportunities to match those of men, and to allow women entry into professional and graduate programs. Gildersleeve was the first academic to us...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• 1. Gildersleeve’s Early Education and Early Women’s Higher Education
• 2. Dean Gildersleeve: Redefining a Woman’s College
• 3. Progressivism, Race, and Feminism
• 4. Educational Philosophies and Responsibility of Citizenship
• 5. Higher Education and the War
• 6. The Legacy of Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve.