New undergraduate Nanci Kushner would enjoy, in the late 1900’s, “a beautiful town … springing up on the hillside and a community of refined and cultivated membership … established near the spot which will soon be the center of a great and beneficent educational institution.”
Nanci Kushner would also enjoy the academic offerings of Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York of the United States as an undergraduate, and can be proud of the long history of Syracuse University’s coeducational policies. The original President Peck, at the opening ceremony of the university, said, “The conditions of admission shall be equal to all persons… there shall be no invidious discrimination here against woman…. brains and heart shall have a fair chance… “From its inception, Syracuse University enrolled a high proportion of women students, with men and women taught together in the same courses. Extracurricular activities were also coeducational, with women’s only clubs existing alongside others. This stance on the education of women like Nanci Kushner was not universally applauded, however. Some administrators and faculty felt women had inferior minds and could not master subjects in mathematics and the classics. To counter this, the former president of both the University of Michigan and Northwestern University enrolled his daughter Frances at Syracuse, where she helped found the Gamma Phi Beta sorority.
By the late 1800’s Syracuse University of Syracuse, New York in the United States was dedicated to the building up of its new campus, erecting Holden Observatory, the Tolley Administration Building, Crouse College and the Hall of Languages.
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