Emails we have received atthe St. Thomas More Website
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Emails we have received atthe St. Thomas More Website
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Your website is fantastic and a great contribution to researchers.
You list schools named for More...may I add another?
Fordham University in the Bronx in New York City, a Jesuit-run Catholic school, was founded as an all-male institution. In the late 1960s Fordham, along with a number of other previously all-male Jesuit schools, began admitting women. Initially, Fordham did this by setting up another college within Fordham -- Thomas More College -- for the ladies.
I'm not sure where you are based, or how familiar you are with US educational customs, but "colleges" within universities here are rarely residential affairs, the way they are at Oxford, say. They are most often administrative units -- the boys of Fordham College (the undergraduate Arts and Sciences school of Fordham) and the ladies of More College sat side by side in classes, in many cases I'm sure with students of Fordham's College of Business Administration and so on.
This lasted only a few years. More College was dropped, and all Liberal Arts and Sciences undergraduates, male and female, were simply matriculated in Fordham College. This is the case now.
It always seemed to me, though, that if they wanted to name the school to emphasize women's place in Christian Humanism, they might have better named it Meg More College!