Women's colleges work to maintain their mission

Image:  When Patricia McGuire, president of Trinity Washington University, was speaking at a conference on Catholic higher education last month, she referred to the university, a women’s institution in Washington, D.C., in a way that could also describe many women’s colleges across the country. “In fact, we are something of a unicorn, being still primarily a women’s college,” she said. McGuire was referring to the many changes the university, which was founded as a liberal arts...