Yale History

In excerpts from the new book Yale Needs Women, stories of two pioneers: Shirley Daniels '72 and Lawrie Mifflin '73.

On the 50th anniversary of undergraduate coeducation, we hear from some of the first women about their experience.

Former university secretary Sam Chauncey '57 recalls the bumps on the path to coeducation.

A few alumnae worth remembering.

We asked some of the 500 women who entered Yale in 1969 to tell us what they remember: the good and the bad.

The university has scrapped many major building proposals in the past 130 years. What would the campus look like if it hadn’t?