St. Mary of the Woods…Indiana’s oldest liberal arts college open to women only for 175 years will enroll its first male undergraduates on campus this fall.
St. Mary-of-the-Woods College announced Tuesday it will begin accepting applications from men immediately as commuter students for this fall and it expects to admit men as residential students in the fall of 2016. Currently, the college enrolls both men and women for online and graduate programs only.
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Saint Mary-of-the-Woods president Dottie King hopes the change will double the college‘s planned enrollment…
King says key to the decision by are national statistics showing less than 2 percent of college-age women will consider a single-gender institution.