J Brief History of Co-Education.
An act of Congress signed by George Washington in 1792 stipulated that a university be located in the Miami Valley north of the Ohio River . The official act to establish Miami University Miami is the second oldest State University west of the Alleghenies and takes its name from the tribe that once inhabited the area know as Ohio 's Miami Valley
Delayed by the War of 1812, instruction began in 1824 with a president, two faculty, and 20 students. Enrollment grew rapidly, reaching 250 by 1839.
In the 1830s, William Holmes McGuffey wrote the first of his Eclectic Readers while a Miami United States
A few years after the Civil War, with changed conditions and advancing prices, the income of the university became insufficient to support its work. Miami closed in 1873, opening 12 years later when resources had accumulated and the state of Ohio
Coeducation began in 1888, by 1903 there were more than 100 women on campus—one third of the total
Enrollment. Our first African American student, Nelly Craig, graduated in 1905.
Many other milestones have been reached. The concept of artist-in-residence began here. Beginning in 1835, four national fraternities were founded here, giving Miami Ohio 's first intercollegiate football game was played at Miami in 1888 against the University of Cincinnati
In the beginning, the course of study at Miami
A number of campus buildings are listed in the National Register of Historic Places, including Elliott, Stoddard, and Peabody halls, and the Western College
J MEANING OF CO-EDUCATION
Co-education, instruction of both sexes in the same institution. The economic benefits gained from joint classes and the need to secure equality for women in industrial, professional, and political activities have influenced the spread of coeducation. There were scattered examples of coeducation in the late 17th cent. in Scotland and in the American Colonies, but there was no general trend until the great expansion of public education between 1830 and 1845 in the developing W United States . The distance between schools in that region and the small number of pupils caused elementary schools to admit girls. The movement spread naturally to the secondary schools during the reorganization of public education after the Civil War. Oberlin College United States Europe , the Scandinavian countries were the earliest supporters, but many other nations limited coeducation to institutions of higher learning. Although coeducation has expanded since World War II, there are many nations where it still meets opposition on religious and cultural grounds.
