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Excerpt from Special Bulletin on Institute on Higher Education of Women, Vol. 24: June 19-June 21, 1930 at Alabama College, Montevallo, Alabama
In the autumn of letters were sent to those whom it hoped to induce to participate in the program, and by early spring the program was complete. As indicated on the pre ceding pages, it consisted of three parts. First, a general discussion, including papers on The Contribution of Women's Colleges and on Coeducation; secondly, new college programs that have affected the point of view of those concerned with the higher education of women; and thirdly, phases of the curriculum that have been added to the courses of study for women particularly in the last few years. In connection with this latter division the consideration of professional objectives in the higher education of women came in for discussion. For one of the chief problems before the liberal arts college of today is to determine how far it can meet the fast growing demand for professional or pre-professional training for the large number of activities which will command the time and attention of the graduates after college, and still retain its liberal arts character.
It was the hope that through such a program a large number of those interested in the higher education of women might be stimulated to see the problems in a new light. All colleges for women in the southern states were invited to send representatives, and in addition to this a number of coeducational institutions throughout the country. There were forty colleges represented at the meeting, with a total of ninety delegates.
While the representation was not large it was the general feeling of those who came that it was an encouraging be ginning, since it was the first institute of its kind to be held. There was also the feeling that the conference was worth while as a stimulus to those concerned with the prob lems under discussion. Some women's college presidents who attended expressed themselves as having got more out of the program than from any other educational conference. The papers published herein speak for the high quality of the program.
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