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United States, Florida: Married women allowed to own and manage property in their own name during the incapacity of their spouse. [13] 1882. United Kingdom: Married Women's Property Act 1882; France: Compulsory elementary education for both genders. [124] Norway: Women allowed to study at the university. [46]
Women are permitted to attend medical lectures at Istanbul University. [145] France Dorothea Klumpke becomes the first woman to be awarded a doctorate in sciences. [221] United States In 1893, the South Carolina General Assembly mandates "that women should be allowed to attend [ South Carolina College] as special students". Two years later, the ...
The History of the University of Arkansas began with its establishment in Fayetteville, Arkansas, in 1871 under the Morrill Act, as the Arkansas Industrial College. Over the period of its nearly 140-year history, the school has grown from two small buildings on a hilltop to a university with diverse colleges and prominent graduate programs.
1851: College of Notre Dame (now Notre Dame de Namur University) was the first women's college in California and the first in the state authorized to grant baccalaureate degrees to women. The university is now coeducational. It became a graduate school in 2021. 1852: Young Ladies Seminary (now Mills College at Northeastern University).
Boys were allowed for day classes in 1896. Destroyed by fired at the end of the century. Kentucky College for Women, Danville, formerly Caldwell Female College, merged with Centre College in 1926 (as the women's department) but did not formally consolidate with Centre until 1930. Women students didn't move to the Centre campus until 1962.
In 1893, the South Carolina General Assembly "mandated that women should be allowed to attend [ South Carolina College] as special students". (Two years later, the college's board of trustees made the decision to allow female students into the school.) [ 50 ] [ 51 ]
The University of Arkansas (U of A, UArk, or UA) is a public land-grant research university in Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States. [4] It is the flagship [5] campus of the University of Arkansas System. Founded as Arkansas Industrial University in 1871, classes were first held in 1872, with its present name adopted in 1899.
Florida State University (The school was a coeducational seminary beginning in 1851, and was chartered as a coeducational university in 1883. However, in 1905, a reorganization of the state's higher education system converted what was then Florida State College to a women's school, Florida State College for Women.