"Kudos to Schier and Russet for providing this book as a catalyst and charging scholars to continue work they have begun. Anyone interested in the history of higher education should read it as a first step in understanding a group of colleges that has been invisible and ignored. Anyone interested in women's issues should read it for its story of female initiative on a grand scale." -- Connection

Tracy Schier is associate director of the Boston College Institute for Administrators in Catholic Higher Education. Cynthia Russett is Larned Professor of History at Yale University.