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Apparently, single-sex education was not sustainable for RMWC. They obviously did not have the alumnae support or financial backing to remain single-sex, and they were obviously not academically rigorous enough to attract enough capable women to bolster their ranks.
I do not, however, think that single-sex education is going anywhere. Most of the Seven Sisters are still single-sex; schools like Smith, Wellesley, and Barnard are attracting more women than ever before. In this week's New Yorker, there was an article about Deep Springs College, a 2-year school in the southwest that regularly sends its men to Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. Attempts to make it co-ed have met with threats of revoking funding from very wealthy alumni.
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