‘Sisters’ Colleges See a Middle Eastern Bounty

Women’s colleges are a dwindling breed in the United States
By TAMAR LEWIN
June 3, 2008

So this spring the admissions deans of the five leading women’s colleges — Bryn Mawr, Barnard, Mount Holyoke, Wellesley and Smith — went recruiting to a place where single-sex education is more than a niche product: the Middle East.

For three weeks they visited schools in Jordan, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman and the United Arab Emirates, describing what a liberal-arts women’s college can offer academically ambitious students. (They skipped Saudi Arabia, where, their trip coordinator warned, they might need a male escort.) the rest image

University of California: The Most Muslim University in America