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Pericles Lewis traces integration and coeducation through admissions policies, student advocacy and Doonesbury cartoons.
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College and Citizenship - Purposes of College Education, Lecture 12
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- 2:45Admissions language about character and leadership historically helped exclude minorities, Lewis explains.
- 8:20Edward Bouchet earned a Yale physics doctorate, becoming the first African American to earn a US Ph.D.
- 22:13The Black Student Alliance pressed Yale to expand minority recruitment and admissions.
- 35:37Lewis traces women's participation at Yale from graduate programs toward undergraduate coeducation.
- 47:37Early female enrollment caps meet Elga Wasserman's advocacy for equal admissions and financial-aid criteria.
Edward Bouchet's physics doctorate and a Garry Trudeau cartoon belong to the same classroom story on YaleCourses: how a university changes who it welcomes.
In "College and Citizenship - Purposes of College Education, Lecture 12," Professor Pericles Lewis moves from racial exclusion to integration, then to the arrival of women undergraduates. He examines how apparently admirable admissions words such as "character" and "leadership" could serve exclusionary purposes, contrasting that history with Martin Luther King Jr.'s understanding of education and character.
The lecture gives institutional change some human faces. Bouchet earned his Yale doctorate despite the barriers of the nineteenth century. Later, the Black Student Alliance pushed for broader recruitment, while Elga Wasserman advocated equal admissions and financial-aid criteria for women and men. Trudeau's Doonesbury strips supply a different historical record: the awkwardness and resistance surrounding coeducation.
That was the more watched of the channel's two new uploads, reaching roughly 9,200 views. "The Ship of State - Purposes of College Education, Lecture 13" followed on Wednesday and is currently adding views faster. The series opener, "What is College For? - Purposes of College Education, Lecture 1," also remains among the active draws, a useful reminder that this conversation has an entry point for late arrivals.
YaleCourses added 10,000 subscribers over the week, with daily viewing currently well above its usual level. Among the nearby education channels, Oxford Mathematics is also enjoying above-usual daily viewing. YaleCourses' week, meanwhile, gave its philosophical question about college a concrete institutional test: who has been allowed through the door.
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In which subject did Edward Bouchet earn his Yale doctorate?
Lewis introduces Bouchet as a Yale graduate who earned his doctorate in physics in 1876.