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**Notes on Pembroke Center's History:
In 1971, Pembroke College, the coordinate women’s college of Brown University, merged fully with the men’s college. The first women were admitted to the Women’s College in Brown University in 1891; in 1928, the name was changed to Pembroke College. Pembroke had its own buildings, administration, and admissions office, its own student governance and newspaper, its own yearbook and alumnae organization. With a smaller student body than the men’s college, it was more selective and enjoyed a strong academic reputation. The merger with the men’s college gradually resulted in equity for women in terms of numbers, but this took time, and the decade of the 1970s, in particular, was a period of challenging transition. The Majority Report on the merger recommended the merging of all College offices, the increase of the number of women students to a one to one ratio with men, an increase in the number of women faculty, and the establishment of a women’s center “to be charged with the development of special programs for women . . . [and to] act as a research center and data bank for the special problems of women in society.” There was also a Minority Report signed by, among others, Rosemary Pierrel, dean of Pembroke College, and Sophie Blistein ’41, president of the Pembroke Alumnae Association. The signatories of this report were wary of the University’s commitment to women’s interests and recommended further study. As time went on, those working to improve the situation for women were able to draw on both reports in order to achieve their goals.
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