In an op-ed piece for Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, Whitney Soule, Bowdoin's director of admissions, writes of the necessity of diversity on college campuses amid the challenges involved in recruiting low-income and first-generation students. That same year, THRIVE was formed, bringing these scholars under the same umbrella with four other mentoring and scholarship programs. "We have every confidence that she will thrive in this role and will quickly become a vital member of and an integral contributor to our Penn community. Have top stories from The Daily Pennsylvanian delivered to your inbox every day, Monday through Friday, when Penn classes are in session. "If you think about the country at large and much of education . The Pierce Report heavily cites the March 1969 Princeton Report The Education of Undergraduate Women at Princeton, and this document along with other records in the office correspondence of Howell show that the administration was keeping a careful watch on the progress of similar schools. [Does] a strong word from Lohmann make [my leave] involuntary? And I dont know why.. Before becoming Penn's Dean of Admissions, Whitney Soule spent 13 years at Bowdoin College. Take a step back. create a unique collaboration with other highly selective liberal arts colleges Women in their class also had options for getting involved in Bowdoins physical education and free play programs. Uma Blanchard 17, who has struggled with a concussion since the end of her sophomore year, was skeptical of Counselings relationship with the deans office because she had heard rumors that the two offices communicate with each other about students often. A year later, she became director of admissions and then, in 2016, Whitney was named dean for admissions and student aid. As Bowdoin began matriculating women, it formed the Ad Hoc Committee on Coeducation, as well as many committees and subcommittees for three phases of coeducation. Whitney Soule - The Conversation E. Whitney Soule - Vice Provost, Dean of Admissions at University of Pennsylvania - University of Pennsylvania | LinkedIn E. Whitney Soule Vice Provost, Dean of Admissions at University of. Initially, she signed up for college courses to become a dental hygienist. She also notices herself adjusting her language and behavior to fit in. For me, it was a sign.". Many students of color first saw the College through Explore Bowdoin or Bowdoin Experience, admissions programs that encourage low-income and first-generation students to apply and matriculate to Bowdoin. I would say that being need-blind is a huge opportunity for this college, said Soule. Classes taken off-campus must fulfill certain requirements to receive Bowdoin credit: they must be in one of the liberal arts disciplines, meet Bowdoin's credit hours, and be rigorous. Free. Get our newsletter, The Daily Pennsylvanian, delivered to your inbox every weekday morning. Admissions Dean Whitney Soule and Praise Hall '20 on How 'Fly-in This is a strategy Soule hopes to employ in other cities in the future. Many of our peers have found frustration in the complexity and obscurity of who has not only the power, but also the judgment to make these decisions. Whitney Soule began her tenure as Vice Provost and Dean of Admissions on July 1, 2021. We had to go out and be ambassadors on behalf of all the other women.. The study also revealed that the financial composition of the student body did not change significantly over the period it addressed (between 1998 and 2009). Were going through serious exercises to understand our budget, to take out whatever fatfat isnt even the word because theres no fat in itbut really making tough choices about where were going to spend our money, he said. According to an October 2, 1970 Orient article about the Board of Overseers approval of coeducation, the discussion about coeducation happened at the same time as a more urgent conversation about the financial plight of the College. $20,000 per year). Soule also said that the need-blind process actually does create socioeconomically diverse classes. And the academy was one of those places, so there were many, many schools that started to go coed at around the same time.. Soule graduated from Bates College and earned her master's degree from Harvard University's Graduate School of Education.