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Bryn Mawr and Haverford

By Alison
December 8, 2015 - 01:49
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Bryn Mawr and Haverford Alison's part

1.History of Haverford:

-1833 liberal and guarded education for Quaker boys

-1870 the faculty and students had voted to go coed, Board of Managers did not concede (expansion was the answer but coeducation was not.)

continued cooperation with Bryn Mawr was the best choice for both schools/it was time for Haverford to prevent its identity from merging with Bryn Mawr's and to step out on its own as a coed institution.(???)

Fact: co-ed of Amherst: leave Haverford as one of the few remaining private, eastern liberal arts colleges to retain an all-male student body. “

-1977 The Board implemented the decision to admit women as transfers starting in the following fall.

Muslims at Bryn Mawr Presentation

By ai97
December 7, 2015 - 17:18
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I decided to explore Muslims at Bryn Mawr for my final project, inspired by "Black at Bryn Mawr." “Muslims at Bryn Mawr” would work to build institutional memory of the College's engagement with religion and religious discrimination, enabling future students to hold both themselves and the College community to higher standards of awareness and accountability both inside and outside the classroom dynamics. I tried to explore the experiences of Muslim students at the College from the past and present. To gain a historical perspective, I visited Bryn Mawr College Special Collections to delve into any archival records relating to Muslims. I also conducted in-person and online interviews with current Muslim students to learn about their experiences as Muslims on campus.

Textbook Exchange- Contact Zone Project

By bothsidesnow
December 7, 2015 - 16:47
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Project by: Madison Cassidy 

Interview with Director of the Bookstore:

  • Buying at the bookstore is not always about the money price- consider the ecological costs of packaging for shipping

  • Think about the equity of buying online versus the bookstore- people on Amazon pay a variety of prices, while everyone pays the same price at the bookstore- when the BMC bookstore was run by Follett and some people (in the past) received financial aid directly for books, they would not receive aid in time to buy books at the lowest prices, they would be forced to buy more expensive books, negating the financial help that they received from the college

Local/ Organic Food Consumption at Bryn Mawr Project -data

*Also see the attached file!*

MAIN Points and Flow of the presentation 

1) Quick conversation between a student and the head of the Dining Service at Bryn Mawr. 

Q. Where are the foods coming from?

Q. Are there some reasons why we do not have so many local or organic foods?

2) What we've learned during our six-week project

After we interviewed Mom's Organic Market 

-There is a misconception about the price of organic foods in US.

-Also, there is a trick.

-College is like an individual - it can have priorities