Mills College in Oakland is amazing.
Maybe that’s why they are closing down. B-)
I always get a kick out the idea that Smith is now a bastion of feminism. They got their FIRST female president in 1975. Until then, all men. Wellesley has never had anything BUT a female president.
I graduated from Wellesley in 1975. Feminism was a given there. Of course, that was generally a somewhat different type of feminism than that currently emanating from gender and women’s studies departments.
I too this is just a media-politician fad to have a major in such a thing. You got to work with all people not play a game of victimization.
FWIW reviving this thread a little because of Sweet Briar’s revival. Also because someone mentioned Mills. I love both schools for my daughter. And Agnes Scott. She’s exited about Northampton as a town, and the schools near that town, and that’s great, but I’m looking forward to her seeing the other exciting schools. Personally, I love Sweet Briar’s academics, traditions, attractive campus. Agnes Scott also has great academics and I love the diversity in the true sense of the word. I also love the classes with, say, four students in them with the professor. It’s like a tutorial for the most difficult classes. If you’re going to be paying for university or college, why not get one that offers what amounts to a tutorial? This is one reason why I like Sweet Briar. Mills seems great for the above reasons, also because of how close it is to San Francisco and the jobs market / internships if you are interested in STEM.
Scripps (in California) is a part of the Claremont Consortium so there are many co-ed activities that have nothing to do with empowering women.
Bryn Mawr has its share of students who can be overwhelmingly feminist at times, and a lot of the themes are centered around social justice issues- there’s always the bi-annual call to arms in the social justice community over a serious issue that, in general, becomes laughable due to the dramatic ways a handful of BMC students try to fix things. It’s not always feminism-based (this year it was about race) but I’d call the atmosphere at BMC very political. However, the institution itself has a variety of non-activism-based extra-curriculars, and due to the self-governance ideals, it’s very easy to branch out on your own and start your own event/club/etc. You also have access to a variety of clubs and events at the neighbouring college Haverford- because of the agreement HC and BMC have, if you get into BMC, you might as well have gotten into HC as well.
I haven’t read upstream yet, but a lot of the small Catholic colleges that started out as women’s colleges but have gone co-ed might still have a predominately female student body and might not be as radical feminist as much as they are pro-women. Some are still all-women undergrads, such as St. Kate’s in the Twin Cities. fwiw