Rev. Dr. Harold H. Hutson
11th President, 1952-1964

"The college's move to coeducation in 1954-56 attracted a great deal of comment on various aspects of the change, but it was first and last an educational decision bearing strongly on the future of the college. We needed students -- and we couldn't recruit larger classes with 50% of high school graduates off-limits to us. We had to expand the liberal arts curriculum in order to attract students to a high-quality institution. Many of the academic areas necessary to attract students and to improve the curriculum were strongly associated, at that time, with men's education. Further, the entire program of informal education, both on the campus and in the city of Greensboro, dictated a more normal social situation. The final decision by the board of trustees has been educationally justified a hundred times over by increases in enrollment and by the solid development of instructional areas which quickly became the major choices of both men and women."

Excerpt: Dr. Harold H. Hutson, Paper entitled "Greensboro College, 1952-1964," 1987.