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Book SynopsisThe Douglass Century tells a powerful tale of the creativity and determination of successive generations of women who have claimed intellectual space, devised educational programs, and sustained an academic project, Douglass Residential College that has reshaped the worlds available to women in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Trade Review"100-Year Journey At Douglass: From Early Technical Courses To STEM-Oriented Programs" by Tom Wilk * Inside Jersey *
"100 Years--and Counting" interview feature * Rutgers Magazine *
"100 years of Douglass College" by Tom Wilk * NJ.com *
"The Rutgers Century" by Mary Snead * Rutgers Today *
"The Douglass Century: A new book by Rutgers faculty and staff examines the history and diversity of Douglass Residential College in celebration of its 100th anniversary" by Merrie Snead * Rutgers Today *
Rutgers Magazine (Spring 2018 issue) mention of
The Douglass Century in the "Letters" section * Rutgers Magazine *
"This well-researched book honors the impact of Douglass on the history of New Jersey and on the many young women who attended the institution over the last one hundred years. More significantly,
The Douglass Century provides a thoughtful sense of the struggle women faced as they sought access to higher education and, as important as ever, the continuing challenges women face achieving leadership roles and equity in today’s society." * New Jersey Studies *
Table of ContentsForeword by Carol T. Christ, DC ’66 . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Deans of the College, 1918–2018 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
A ssociate Alumnae of Douglass College:
Presidents and Executive Directors . . . . . . . . . . xi
1 Inventing Douglass: The Challenge
of Women’s Higher Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
2 New Jersey College for Women:
Establishing a Tradition, 1918–1933 . . . . . . . . . . . . .23
3 Challenges of the 1930s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
4 World War II and Its Aftermath:
New Jersey College For Women,
1940–1950 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73
5 From New Jersey College for
Women to Douglass College . . . . . . . . . . . 93
6 Preserving Douglass’s
Special Mission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
7 Douglass in Two Turbulent
Decades: Student Activism
and Institutional Transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . .143
8 Creating Knowledge about,
by, and for Women . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
9 R einventing Douglass:
From University Reorganization
to the Transformation of
Undergraduate Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .199
10 Diversifying Douglass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
11 Douglass Residential College:
Revitalizing Women’s Education
in the Twenty-First Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
12 The Douglass Difference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .271
Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
