History
The New Jersey College for Women was founded in 1918 by the New Jersey State Federation of Women's Clubs. It was affiliated with Rutgers College and in turn became part Rutgers University. In 1955, the name was changed to Douglass College in honor of its founder, Mabel Smith Douglass. It was the largest public women's college in the United States and continued to grant degrees into the 21st century.
In 2005, Rutgers University President Richard Levis McCormick unveiled plans to merge Douglass College with the University's other undergraduate liberal arts colleges at Rutgers-New Brunswick — Rutgers College, Livingston College, Cook College, and University College — to create the School of Arts and Sciences. The plans proved controversial, resulting in numerous open forums and town hall meetings.
In 2007 the Douglass Residential College was formed, a residential college within Rutgers University, as the result of a compromise between those who wanted a complete merger and those who wanted the college to remain as a separate, degree-granting institution.
Read more about this topic: Douglass Residential College (Rutgers University)
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