CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Foreword vii
4. Deans of the College ix
5. 1. INVENTING DOUGLASS: The Challenge of Women’s Higher Education 1
6. 2. NEW JERSEY COLLEGE FOR WOMEN: Establishing a Tradition, 1918–1929 23
7. 3. CHALLENGES OF THE 1930s 51
8. 4. WORLD WAR II AND ITS AFTERMATH: New Jersey College For Women, 1940–1950 73
9. 5. FROM NEW JERSEY COLLEGE FOR WOMEN TO DOUGLASS COLLEGE 93
10. 6. PRESERVING DOUGLASS’S SPECIAL MISSION 117
11. 7. DOUGLASS IN TWO TURBULENT DECADES: Student Activism and Institutional Transformation 143
12. 8. CREATING KNOWLEDGE ABOUT, BY, AND FOR WOMEN 171
13. 9. REINVENTING DOUGLASS: From University Reorganization to the Transformation of Undergraduate Education 199
14. 10. DIVERSIFYING DOUGLASS 225
15. 11. DOUGLASS RESIDENTIAL COLLEGE: Revitalizing Women’s Education in the Twenty-First Century 241
16. 12. THE DOUGLASS DIFFERENCE 257
17. Afterword 269
18. Acknowledgments 273
19. Notes 277
20. Bibliography 319
21. Index 329