When Hazel Drew left Guyana in 1962 to attend Western College for Women in Oxford, she wasn’t sure what to expect. “This was an adventure for me because I’d never left Guyana,” she says.

She also chaired the scholarship committee. Lynne Drucker Albukerk WA ’64 fondly remembers going to Miami University’s football games when she was a student at nearby Western College for Women. “It ...

27-29, 2024. To honor the legacy of the Western College for Women, the Miami University football team will wear special blue, white, and red jerseys as part of the Homecoming 2024 celebration. The ...

UMass. The blue pays homage to Western College for Women, which closed in 1974 and became integrated as part of Miami’s campus. “We are excited to honor the legacy and tradition of Western ...

In 1964, 800 volunteers trained on the Western College for Women campus adjacent to Miami’s main Oxford campus as part of the Freedom Summer initiative to register Black voters in the south.

which was once the Western College for Women— have a unique connection to the Civil Rights movement almost 60 years later. Civil rights organizations in 1964 — including the Congress on Racial ...

In June 1964, hundreds of volunteers from across the country trained in Oxford at the Western College For Women — now part of Miami's western campus — for the Mississippi Summer Project.