Boston Globe features Wheaton's success
April 16, 2001
On Sunday, April 8, The Boston Globe profiled the results of some risky business. Wheaton's choice to go co-ed in 1987 was bold and fraught with emotion. The move could have hastened what some saw as an eventual demise of the more than 150-year-old institution; instead, Wheaton is flourishing.
This story, which appeared on the newspaper's "Learning" section front, chronicles the pay offs:
A winning gamble
10 years ago, a struggling Wheaton College bet its life on going coed; it's paid off.
David Abel, Globe Staff
Little more than a decade ago, many at Wheaton College feared that their
150-year-old all-women school was in its death throes.
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