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From: emory!vicki@gatech.edu (Vicki Powers)
Newsgroups: comp.society.women
Subject: Re: Single sex science education
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Date: 8 Sep 88 13:09:32 GMT
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In article <5726@ecsvax.uncecs.edu>, fester%math.Berkeley.EDU@violet.berkeley.edu writes:
> 
> A secondary point is that women's colleges are all colleges.  Among
> coeducational institutions, there are many universities.  And it is
> quite well known that in the sciences, it helps *enormously* to be in
> a place where there is also a graduate program.  That way, when you
> run out of advanced courses to take, you simply go on and take
> graduate level classes.  

Not true!   I know that Bryn Mawr has a (admittedly small) Ph.D program
in mathematics.  When I interviewed there for a job, they had one Ph.D
student.  Other departments have graduate programs as well.  I think 
most good women's college's expect their professors to be active 
researchers and thus any student who wanted advanced work would be able
to get it.


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[I think that what Lea was saying is that single-sex colleges suffer from
the same problems that other colleges do as well.  So, to the extent that
there is not a graduate program in a single-sex or coed college, there is
a problem with getting a quality education.  It is, I think, even worse
in regard to computer science.  The cost of putting together a graduate
program in c.s. can be very high (making the salaries competitive, getting
the kind of facilities which will draw good people, and so on) and it
would be extremely hard for someone to try to get into that game now--
it would also probably not be cost-effective to have a graduate program
with only one or two students. TR]