Historian Andrea L. Turpin, Baylor University, discusses The Changing Moral Vision for Educating the Sexes at the University of Michigan, 1870–1920.
She explores how the entrance of women into U.S. colleges and universities — as exemplified by U-M — shaped changing ideas about the moral and religious purposes of higher education in unexpected ways, and in turn profoundly influenced American culture. She is the author of the award-winning book, A New Moral Vision: Gender, Religion, and the Changing Purposes of American Higher Education, 1837-1917 (Cornell, 2016).