WAYNE, Pa.
Valley Forge Military College, the last all-male military college in the country, will accept women beginning next fall.
The decision will allow women into ROTC, military service academy
prepatory programs, the two-year transfer college and the Army Early
Commissioning Program, where cadets earn Army commissions in two years.
School officials estimated enrollment for women could reach 20 percent
within five years. Valley Forge Military Academy, a boarding school for
boys in grades seven to 12, will remain a single-sex school.
“The research says there is still a good benefit for single-sex
education at the high school level, but we believe the time has come
for a coed program at the college level,” spokesman Rod Hill said.
Several area private schools have gone coed in recent years, including
Chestnut Hill College, Immaculata University and Harcum College.
Military colleges such as The Citadel and Virginia Military Institute
went coed soon after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1996 that they
could not bar women and still receive public funds.
— Associated Press
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Valley Forge Military College to Accept Women
by Associated Press , October 25, 2005
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