Higher Education for Women in Postwar America, 1945–1965

Index

accreditation, 116, 127, 134, 252n13 activism, by women, 2, 4, 8, 26–27, 88 Adams, Arthur S., 91, 110, 190; and Ford Foundation, 97, 110; and NADW, 34; retirement of, 108 Addams, Jane, 238n15 adult education, 167, 181–82, 261n2; for women, 106 affirmative action, 226 AFL-CIO, 144 African American women, 30; and desegregation , 63; educational choices of, 2, 79–80; labor market differences, 27; and motherhood, 40; volunteerism, 33–34 Allen, Lucile, 102, 136 Alonso, Harriet, 4 Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, 144 American Association of University Professors (AAUP), 139 American Association of University Women (AAUW), 6, 113–40, 144, 180, 232; and ACE CEW, 100; and Louise Cain, 203, 204; College Faculty Program, 120, 122–23, 255n53; Educational Foundation, 120–21; educational programs of, 117–20; fellowship program, 120–22, 130; growth of, 116, 230; lawsuit against, 126–27; membership characteristics , 119–20; and PCSW, 144; and racial concerns, 124–30; support for liberal arts education, 124–25; tensions with NADW, 134 American Council on Education (ACE), 6, 13, 14, 87, 132; origins of, 89, 204 American Council on Education Commission on the Education of Women (ACE CEW), 87–111; accomplishments of, 230, 231, 233; Index and Carnegie Corporation, 187; comparison to PCSW, 142, 157, 164, 175; and continuing education, 180, 183, 185, 201, 203; and fundraising , 95–97, 101; original funding for, 115, 252n9; participation of women deans in, 113; and research, 92–95, 100–105, 233 American Friends Service Committee, 32 American Legion, 49 American Nurses Association, 17 American Personnel and Guidance Association (APGA), 135 American Women, 143, 154, 160, 163, 169–74. See also President’s Commission on the Status of Women (PCSW) Amidon, Edna, 156, 159 Anderson, Florence: and ACE CEW, 109; and Mary Bunting, 197; and continuing education , 187, 188, 206, 251n65; and Sarah Lawrence College, 191 Anderson, John, 100 Anderson, Paul, 97 Antioch College, 183 Arnaz, Desi, 29 Association of Collegiate Alumnae (ACA), 115 Association of Deans of Women and Advisers to Girls in Negro Schools, 129, 255n65 Atomic Energy Commission, 51 Babcock, Fern, 33 “baby boom,” 28, 50, 97 Ball, Lucille, 29 Ballif, Algie, 156 Barry, Ruth, 137–38 beat movement, 38, 62, 63 Benezet, Louis, 93, 99, 102 Bennington College, 179 Bernard, Jessie, 92, 270n1; and Academic Women, 64–65, 72–73, 74–76, 130 Berube, Allen, 5 black colleges, 80 Blackwell, Gordon, 109 Blake, Robert, 95 Blanding, Sarah Gibson, 54, 129, 138 Blood, Robert, 204 Blyley, Katherine, 93, 115, 138 Bolton, Frances, 14 Bradley, Mamie Till, 31 Brancusi, Constantine, 141 Breines, Wini, 62 Briscoe, Martha, 156 Brookings Institution, 101 Brown v. Board of Education, 30, 57, 126, 130 Bryant, Carol, 31 Bryant, Roy, 30–31 Bunting, Henry, 179 Bunting, Mary I. “Polly”: and ACE CEW, 102, 106; early career, 179–80; as Education Committee chair, 155–65; as PCSW member, 146; and Radcliffe Institute, 193–201, 216–23 passim, 229 Bush, Vannevar, 46 Business and Professional Women’s Clubs (BPWC), 114, 125, 144, 203 Cain, Louise, 202, 210–11 Cain, Stanley, 210–11 Callahan, Mary, 146 Campbell, Jean, 202, 210–11, 215, 219, 223–27, 231 Canham, Erwin, 32 Caplow Theodore, 60–61, 92, 196 Carmichael, Oliver C., 14 Carnegie Corporation: and ACE CEW, 109; and continuing education, 183, 187–88, 206, 214; and Radcliffe Institute, 197–98; and Sarah Lawrence College, 216; and University of Minnesota, 187–88, 221; and women’s programming , 251n58, 265n80 Carnegie Foundation, 46, 101, 183, 252n13 Carter, Jimmy, 157 Catholic education, 161–62 Chafe, William, 4 Chambers, Marjorie Bell, 117, 120 Chayes, Antonia, 157, 158, 160–65, 259n38, 260n55 child care, 161, 169, 268n11 citizenship, 237n8 Civil Rights Act (1964), 124, 174 Civil Rights Commission, 150 civil rights movement, 3, 5, 231–2 Clapp, Margaret, 102 Clarenbach, Kathryn, 175, 226 class issues, 219–20; in continuing education, 226–27; in education, 170 Cless, Elizabeth, 182–89, 197, 201, 214, 220 “climate of unexpectation,” 195, 196–97, 201, 223 Cobb, Jean, 206–7 Cobble, Dorothy Sue, 4 “coeds,” 247n91 Cold War, 12; fears about, 13 Coleman, James, 165, 232 College Alumnae Club, 127 College Faculty Program (of AAUW), 120, 206, 268n23 College Level Examination Program (CLEP), 106, 194 Columbia University, 12, 17, 43, 87 commissions on women (state level), 230 communism, 14–15, 34, 39 community colleges, 48, 55–56, 160, 232, 236n17 compensatory work, 239n47 Compton, Karl, 47 Conant, James Bryant, 47 Congress of American Women, 34 consumerism, 15, 18 continuing education for women, 7, 155, 179–209, 210–27; and...