College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University DigitalCommons@CSB/SJU Academic Affairs Publications Academic Affairs 2017 LEARNING AND SEX: A Report on the Analysis of Single Sex Sections of First Year Seminars at CSB/SJU, 2014-15 Patricia Bolanos-F̃ abres College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University,
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[email protected]. LEARNING AND SEX: A Report on the Analysis of Single Sex Sections of First Year Seminars at CSB/SJU, 2014-15 Patricia Bolaños-Fabres Sucharita Sinha Mukherjee INTRODUCTION Considering that as recently as 2014, school girls Chibok, Nigeria were abducted by Boko Haram, a Muslim fundamentalist terrorist group, one has to wonder about the correlation between the access to education, equality, safety, and opportunity. The College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University are private Catholic liberal arts institutions whose students enroll in single-sex institutions, but are provided co-educational learning experiences in the classroom.