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Women's Colleges Try New Strategies for Success

Chronicle of Higher Education

September 11, 2011

Brinita Ricks, a single mother from Washington, picked Wilson because of an unusual moms-with-kids program the college started in the 1990s. She and her 5-year-old son live in a two-room-with-bath suite in the program's dorm, which is home to about 20 mothers and their children.

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