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Originally Posted by 33girl
Were the 11 at UF all ground up?
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Yes. That is when women were allowed to attend all the colleges at UF. Up to then women were only allowed to enroll in Florida State College for Women( present day FSU) or UF if FSCW did not offer the program(see end of paragraph). Women teachers had been allowed to take summer classes to further their education, as well as women of a "mature age" ( at least 21 years old) who had completed 60 semester hours from a "reputable" educational institution.
After WWII there were more men wanting to enroll at UF than space to accommodate them, so the legislature opened the Tallahassee Branch of UF on the FSCW campus-this included my dad. In the fall of 1947 the legislature mandated that FSCW (it began as the West Florida Seminary in 1851, became coed in 1856)would be coeducational again and renamed the institution Florida State U.