Male President for Mount Holyoke College: The Failed Fight to Maintain Female Leadership, 1934-1937

Title: Male President for Mount Holyoke College: The Failed Fight to Maintain Female Leadership, 1934-1937
Author: Ann Karus Meeropol
E: 1700654
ISBN: 9780786471331
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2014
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Illustrated
Number of Pages: 260
Section: Education | Schools | Levels - Higher
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Publisher Description:

A struggle arose over who would succeed Mary Emma Woolley as president of Mount Holyoke College in 1937. Over her 36-year tenure, Woolley had transformed Mount Holyoke into an elite women's college in which leadership in the administration and faculty was almost exclusively female. Beginning in 1933, a group of male trustees determined to change the college. This book tells the story of how this group dominated the search process and ultimately convinced the majority of the trustees to offer the presidency to Roswell Gray Ham, an associate professor of English at Yale University.