A look back at 40 years of coeducation

This is the first in a series of stories examining and discussing 40 years of coeducation at F&M. Stories will focus on the shift to a coeducational college, alumni interviews, classroom dynamics during the transition, and gender perspectives. A male-exclusive F&M is likely a foreign concept to current students—with a female majority in the class of 2013, NCAA women’s athletics, and the recent construction of the Harris Center for Business, Government, and Public Policy (named for Patricia Harris ’77), gender disparity seems a figment of the far past. Full story