Deep Springs College, men-only for nearly a century, plans to admit women

[struggle4progress]

One of the hardest colleges to get into in the country is in California’s high desert. It’s also one of the most unusual. Students leave Deep Springs College at the end of two years, often for diplomas at an Ivy League school. Along the way, they run a cattle farm and an alfalfa ranch ...

By Molly Peterson
The Madeleine Brand Show for June 12, 2012
http://www.scpr.org/programs/brand-martinez/2012/06/12/26919/a-mens-only-college-may-finally-allow-women-to-att/

Two trustees have asked a judge to block Deep Springs College ... from admitting women for the first time in the fall of 2013 ...

2 Trustees Try to Block Deep Springs College From Going Coed
May 10, 2012 by Sara Lipka
http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/2-trustees-try-to-block-deep-springs-college-from-going-coed/43164

Nestled in a remote valley in the California desert is a tiny 26-student bastion of nontraditional education, Deep Springs College ... The education students receive revolves around three pillars: labor, academics, and self governance ... It's a close-knit community, which is why it may be surprising to some that the push to go coed came from the students themselves ...

After 94 Years, Tiny Deep Springs College Goes Coed
September 22, 2011
http://www.good.is/post/deep-springs-college-begins-the-transition-to-a-coed-campus/

Deep Springs College, the historically all-male two-year institution located on a cattle ranch in California, voted on Saturday that it would admit women. ... The school’s philosophy is unique, blending manual labor — scrubbing pots, slaughtering cows, baling hay — with one or two 90-minute classes a day ... The college’s formula has changed little since its founding in 1917 — until now. David Neidorf, president of the college, emphasized in an interview that the decision to admit women to Deep Springs was not one motivated by financial or legal pressures, and that enrollment size would remain fixed ... Deep Springs’s acceptance rate hovers around 8 percent. Significantly expanding the potential applicant pool — to include both men and women — while keeping constant the supply of seats at the college will assuredly make fierce competition for admission even fiercer ...

Elite, All-Male University of the Wild West To Go Coed
By REBECCA R. RUIZ
Deep Springs College, the historically all-male two-year institution located on a cattle ranch in California, voted on Saturday that it would admit women.
http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/deep-springs/

Deep Springs is pleased and proud to welcome inquiries and applications from women for admission to the class entering in 2013 ... The Trustees of Deep Springs voted decisively in favor of coeducation, and are currently working through a legal process to implement this decision. We are optimistic enough to begin recruitment, but legal matters are difficult to predict with complete certainty ...

Deep Springs Now Recruiting Women Applicants
http://www.deepsprings.edu/news%20and%20events/college
http://www.deepsprings.edu/admissions/application

[a geek named Bob]

1. hmmm...

sounds like another school needs another revenue stream.

[SheilaT]

2. Hmmm, indeed.

A school that small, the dynamics will be completely different with women in the mix. Maybe there could be a sister college that's all women?

[noamnety]

3. Maybe the dynamics will change for the better

for example, to a group of people who don't feel the need to live for years in a no-women-allowed club.