Speaking of Morehouse (see the ΩΨΦ thread), today is the 149th anniversary

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of the founding of the Augusta Institute, which eventually became Morehouse. As long as they aren't playing Howard, I always support the Maroon Tigers...

I think that other than Deep Springs (which is its own weird thing) it's the only all-male liberal arts college left in the country. Anybody know for sure?

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1. Happy Birthday Morehouse!!! A school that will always be near and dear to my heart

Grandfather graduated from there in 1950 and grandmother graduated from Spelman across the road.

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2. wiki tells me there are three

As of March 2015, there are three non-religious, four-year, all-male college institutions in the United States. These are:

Hampden–Sydney College, Hampden–Sydney, Virginia
Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia
Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana

The Williamson Free School of Mechanical Trades, which offers Associate's degrees, is not usually included on lists of traditional men's colleges, even though it enrolls no females, is an officially secular institution, and is not affiliated with any other institution. There is also Deep Springs College, a two-year liberal arts college in California that planned to begin admitting women for the class of 2013, but was later barred from doing so by a court decision citing the stipulations held within the college's founding trust that only "young men" would be allowed to attend.

Additionally, although many seminaries officially operate as men's colleges, some are also not frequently cited. These include The Master's Seminary in Sun Valley, California; the Saint Meinrad School of Theology in Saint Meinrad, Indiana; and Holy Apostles College and Seminary in Cromwell, Connecticut.

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3. Thanks! My mom did her dissertation on gender integration of single-sex institutions

What was really interesting was that (except for Deep Springs) when you look at people actually taking clases, there's almost no such thing as a single-sex institution, but students of the "non-official" gender are subjected to a kind of invisibility. Her case study was VMI, which actually had more women enrolled in classes than men (townies, daughters and wives of faculty, extension programs, etc.) but did not enroll in the corps of cadets and weren't "visible" to the college.

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4. There are still over 40 women's colleges in the US.

My wife is a graduate of one of them, one of the Seven Sisters.

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5. And, for instance, I (a man) took classes at Hollins at one point

IIRC the women's colleges are kind of disappearing, though: Sweetbriar only just survived by the skin of its teeth and the tenacity of its alumnae, and Mount Vernon in DC got bought out by GWU...

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6. I think the top ones are still going strong.

There is a lot to be said, in our still sexist society, for women's colleges where their intellectual life and effort is really valued. I know it was a very powerful, life-changing experience for my wife, and she has been very involved in alumnae functions, and in a continued online social media community from there.