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Women's colleges in higher education are undergraduate, bachelor's degree-granting institutions, often liberal arts colleges, whose student populations are composed exclusively or almost exclusively of women. Some women's colleges admit male students to their graduate schools or in smaller numbers to undergraduate programs, but all serve a primarily female student body. ==Distinction between women's college and finishing school== A woman's college offers an academic curriculm exclusively or primarily, while a girl's or woman's finishing school (sometimes called a charm school) focuses on social graces such as deportment, etiquette, and entertaining; academics if offered are secondary. The term finishing school has sometimes been used or misused to describe certain women's colleges. Some of these colleges may have started as finishing schools but transformed themselves into rigorous liberal arts academic institutions, as for instance the now defunct Finch College. Likewise the secondary school Miss Porter's School was founded as Miss Porter's Finishing School for Young Ladies in 1843; now it emphasizes an academic curriculumn. A woman's college that had never described itself as a finishing school can suffer the misnomer. Throughout the 114-year history of the women's college Sweet Briar students and alumnae have objected to calling it a finishing school.〔Resentment of term finishing school * *〕 Nonetheless the finishing school characterization persisted, and may have contributed to declining enrollment, financial straits, and the school's near closure in 2015.〔Characterization of Sweet Briar as finishing school *(noting daughter of Dr. Hay was a junior attending the "Sweet Briar, Va. Finishing School" in 1922.) * "(Black was ) a traditional southern sexist male who believed...that women should not go out of their way to read the classics. Instead they should go to finishing school and prepare themselves for the rewarding, nurturing role of wife and mother...()e wanted (daughter Jo Jo ) to go to Sweet Briar College because, according to him, scholarship should never play too big a role in a woman's life”. * * * *〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Women's college」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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