Mixed-sex education
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Mixed-sex education, also known as mixed-gender education, co-education, or coeducation, is a system of education where female and male students are educated together. Whereas single-sex education was
Co-Education by Charles Allan Winter, c. 1915
Oberlin College, the oldest extant mixed-sex institute of higher education in the United States
Oberlin College
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Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Oberlin, Ohio, United States. Founded as the Oberlin Collegiate Institute in 1833, it is the oldest coeducational liberal
Mixed-sex education
…the surrounding area. The school continues in existence to the present day with around 1,250 pupils. The first co-educational college to be founded was Oberlin Collegiate Institute in Oberlin, Ohio. It opened on 3 December 1833, with 44 students, including 29 men and 15 women. Fully equal status for women did not arrive until 1837…
The college was named after a prominent minister, Jean-Frédéric Oberlin
Severance Hall
Peters Hall, the Oberlin Administration Building, in 1909
Peters Hall, home of the language departments, in 2010