USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -First in Academia: Oberlin was the first college in America to adopt a policy to admit black students (1835) and the first to grant bachelor’s degrees to women (1841) in a coeducational program.

Detailed explanation-2: -Oberlin College in Ohio was the first higher learning institution to admit women in the United States. The college opened in 1833, permitted Blacks to apply in 1835, and became coed in 1837 with the admission of four female students. Three of the four graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1841.

Detailed explanation-3: -The first women formally admitted to the college program enrolled in 1837. The four women who enrolled that year made Oberlin College the first coeducational college in the United States.

Detailed explanation-4: -Atlanta University was the first graduate institution to award degrees to African Americans in the nation and the first to award bachelor’s degrees to African Americans in the South; Clark College (1869) was the nation’s first four-year liberal arts college to serve African-American students.

Detailed explanation-5: -Oberlin College pioneered “the joint education of the sexes, ” enrolling women students beside men from its opening in 1833.