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coed higher education  

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  • A basic historical trend in U.S. higher education has been the transition from educating men and women separately to educating them together in coeducational institutions. Almost all colleges and universities today, in contrast to the mid-19th century, are diverse in the gender of their student bodies. [Source: Encyclopedia of Diversity in Education; Coed Higher Education]

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