Coeducation
a method of the liberal education of women and of men in the same college, under similar conditions, and with similar results. It is the method commonly prevailing in American colleges and universities.
About three-fourths of all colleges are open to both men and women; the larger share of the remaining one-quarter are open to men only, and the balance, a small number, to women only.
The method of coeducation began in Ohio seventy years ago. It has received constant enlargement. Nearly all State universities are now open to both sexes without discrimination. Since coeducation has become the rule, and since separate colleges for women have been established, a method called the co-ordinate has come into view. It represents a university in which a college for women is established, and in which a college for men is also established, each college administered as a separate unit. Yet in its administration, certain executive officers are frequently identical and the members of the two faculties may be The more outstanding examples ended as a remedy for the debility in- granted the right to exchange instrucduced by diseases of the lungs about the year 1833.