History of the Present

  • Puritan Education

  • First all-girls boarding school

  • First female instructors at any American college

  • First higher educational institution to admit women

  • First American public high school for girls

  • First college to offer equal education

  • First African American woman to receive a college degree

  • First coeducational public university

  • First African American woman professor

  • First female professor with equal pay

  • American Association of University founded

  • Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District

  • Title IX passed

  • Women’s Educational Equity Act (WEEA)

  • Equal college enrollment

  • Mississippi University for Women v. Hogan

  • Grove City College v. Bell

  • Civil Rights Restoration Act

  • Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act

  • United States v. Virginia

  • Title IX regulations amended