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7 HARTFORDBUSINESS.COM | JANUARY 3, 2022 Calhoun a year prior to going co-ed was a big boost for the school. "[USJ] focused on athletics in bringing Calhoun on," said Ben Daniels, a lawyer at Robinson+Cole, who has worked with higher education clients for more than a decade. "St. Joe's promoted the men's athletics program while also maintaining a focus on equality inclusion and strong academics." Going co-ed Van Der Werf said all-women's colleges were an anomaly in 1900 but later in the century, the movement among women to get educated with their peers grew. At one time, Van Der Werf said, there were more than 250 all-women colleges in this country. "There was a time when the movement for women's colleges began to grow," Van Der Werf said. "That movement said women needed to be educated differently and there was a feeling among many that women would not get an equal education on a campus populated by men." Van Der Werf said all-women institutions, specifically the top- tiered women's colleges, "have a history of producing future leaders in American government and politics. An education at these colleges really builds women up and increases their confidence. It can be empowering." The cons, however, Van Der Werf said, are "that it is a sector of higher education that's been declining. A lot of these smaller-ranked women colleges have had declining enrollment and when [that happens], programs get eliminated and the faculty, sometimes, get laid off. When you are a college that is not growing, it becomes less attractive for potential students." New Haven's Albertus Magnus College was the last Connecticut college — prior to St. Joseph — to go co-ed, having done so in 1985. There was some pushback among a minority of faculty and students to USJ going co-ed and the same was true for Albertus Magnus, the college said. In a statement to the Hartford Business Journal, Albertus Magnus said, "although the board voted unanimously to admit men, the college was conscious of the pushback and created a transition committee to listen to students' suggestions and to adapt programs as required." Albertus Magnus also said "the college needed to have a larger student body, and the only way to get that was to admit men." There are now no all-women colleges left in Connecticut. Basketball legend Jim Calhoun with USJ President Rhona Free in a 2017 contract-signing ceremony. PHOTO | CONTRIBUTED www.borghesibuilding.com Wittmann Battenfeld, Torrington, CT Napoli Retail, Southington, CT Nufern, East Granby, CT Windsor Marketing Group (WMG), Suffield, CT The Belknap White Group, Hartford, CT Since 1942, The Single Source Construction Firm Since 1942, our goal has been simple: To provide our clients with complete design, planning and construction services for commercial, industrial and retail buildings. 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