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Suburban NY Women's College To Go Coed After 111 Years

College of New Rochelle

A suburban New York school founded as a women's college in 1904 will go coed next fall.

The College of New Rochelle announced Tuesday that its board of trustees has voted unanimously to admit men.

The decision affects the in Westchester County college's School of Arts and Sciences.

Its three other schools are already coed. They are the graduate school, the nursing school and the School of New Resources, which serves adult learners.

Board Chairwoman Elizabeth LeVaca says trustees are excited about the future for both the School of Arts and Sciences and the college as a whole.

The College was founded by the Ursuline order of Roman Catholic nuns.

© 2015 AP

Dave Lucas is WAMC’s Capital Region Bureau Chief. Born and raised in Albany, he’s been involved in nearly every aspect of local radio since 1981. Before joining WAMC, Dave was a reporter and anchor at WGY in Schenectady. Prior to that he hosted talk shows on WYJB and WROW, including the 1999 series of overnight radio broadcasts tracking the JonBenet Ramsey murder case with a cast of callers and characters from all over the world via the internet. In 2012, Dave received a Communicator Award of Distinction for his WAMC news story "Fail: The NYS Flood Panel," which explores whether the damage from Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee could have been prevented or at least curbed. Dave began his radio career as a “morning personality” at WABY in Albany.
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