Andrea Turpin, associate
professor of history at Baylor
University,
presented
a
lecture on changes in views
on the admission of women
into institutions for higher
education. Organized by the
Bentley Historical Library,
about
30
students
and
professors attended the event
on Wednesday night in honor
of the 150th anniversary of
the admission of women to the
University of Michigan.
Turpin,
author
of
the
award-winning
book
“A
New Moral Vision: Gender,
Religion and the Changing
Purposes of American Higher
Education, 1837-1917,” spoke
about women’s struggle for
admission at the University
and their experiences with
coeducation.
Turpin began the lecture
by
speaking
about
Alice
Freeman Palmer, a student
who enrolled at the University
two years after it began
admitting women in 1870.
Turpin said Palmer convinced
her parents to let her attend
college as it would help her
become a teacher, one of the
few occupations widely open
to women at the time.
“Alice Freeman Palmer’s
influence winds through the
development of three of the
most prominent universities
of
that
era,
Michigan,
Chicago and California, and
two of the most prominent
women’s colleges, Wellesley
and Radcliffe,” said Turpin.
“In other words, the advent
of coeducation at Michigan
mattered.
It
mattered
a
lot, not only for American
higher education but also for
American higher society.”
Turpin said women did not
usually attend college during
the 1800s due to societal
norms and expectations.
“w”
According
to
Turpin,
different views regarding the
purpose of higher education
shaped people’s opinions on
women’s education.
“If
serving
the
church
meant only training ministers
and most of the churches
didn’t allow female ministers,
it wouldn’t make sense to
educate women,” said Turpin.
“If serving the church was
to educate as many people
as possible to communicate
the
Christian
message
as
intelligently as possible then it
would make sense to educate
women. In other words, it
made sense to admit women
to college if you believed that
social change came from the
bottom up.”
Turpin also said educating
women was seen as a financial
burden to some at the time.
“It was, like many things,
a question of money,” said
Turpin. “You either had to
raise the money to found
entirely
new
colleges
for
them or you had to build more
classrooms and dormitories
for them at existing colleges
whose funds were originally
intended to educate society’s
most influential leaders. Was
it worth it?”
University alum Christina
Karas said she attended the
event to learn more about
the history of women at
the University and thought
Turpin’s lecture was eye-
opening.
“I
like
how
(Turpin)
brought out things that I
didn’t already know about the
overall history of women’s
lives at the U of M,” said
Turpin. “We hear a lot about
some certain specific women
like Madelon Stockwell or,
you know, Eliza Mosher, but I
didn’t actually know as much
about the broader student
population and how they lived
their lives.”
LSA freshman Rachna Iyer
said she found it commendable
that the University supported
coeducation
in
the
1800s
at a time when many other
places around the globe had
contrasting views.
“As someone minoring in
women’s studies, I learned so
much about the history of the
women preceding me at this
university and their impact
all around the world,” Iyer
said. “It’s crazy to think that
only 150 years ago I would not
be able to join this university.
It’s amazing to see how far
we’ve come as a society, and
although I know we still
have got a long way to go, it
is important to recognize the
work of the women before us.”
Reporter
Navya
Gupta
can be reached at itznavya@
umich.edu
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“Where this started was
with some false claims being
made
about
coronavirus
... information was spread
without all the facts, so this
has led to a sort of hysteria
around this topic, which as we
know is often more harmful
than helpful and can feed into
xenophobia,” Minka stated,
“I know that memes can be
funny, but when we start to
normalize coronavirus ... then
we start to also say that the
reactions and the xenophobia
off of those is also normal.”
Minka
then
discussed
other
reasons
behind
the
widespread panic, such as
the lack of a vaccine and its
spread outside of mainland
China while reminding the
audience to put coronavirus
in perspective to other, more
prevalent diseases such as the
common flu.
LSA
senior
James
Lee
expanded on the history of
Yellow Peril. Yellow Peril
was
the
nationwide
fear
and
systemic
scapegoating
of
Asian
Americans
that
emerged in the 19th century
in response to large numbers
of Chinese railroad workers
immigrating to the American
West. He also discussed how
laws such as the 1882 Chinese
Exclusion Act were created
during this time period to
specifically
discriminate
against the Asian American
community.
Lee then spoke on how these
laws were created to deny the
Asian American community
power as well as how this fear
of marginalized communities
continues to have an effect.
“All of this (the laws) is
really about the preservation
of power not given to the