In the 1950s

In this letter to Rev. James N. Brown, Superintendent of Schools, Father Hauck explains that Santa Clara University had sixteen female students in its evening school and that the university was currently under pressure to accept undergraduate coed students.

In this letter, Provost Carroll O'Sullivan responds to a number of requests from Father Hauck, one of which allowed women to be admitted to Santa Clara University's College of Law.

This document and the next are evidence of the extensive research Father Hauck did into where Santa Clara University stood in regards to coeducation compared to other institutions at the time.

In this document, he records what programs at various Jesuit institutions were coed at the time (1955).

This document and the previous are evidence of the extensive research Father Hauck did into where Santa Clara University stood in regards to coeducation compared to other institutions at the time.

In this document, he records what programs at various non-Jesuit institutions were coed at the time (1955).

This photograph shows coed engineering students at SCU in 1957. Female students were not allowed to earn undergraduate degrees from Santa Clara University until 1961, but during the 1950s a few programs allowed female students to take classes.

This letter is part of an extensive correspondence between Father Hauck and a nun named Sister Augustine, who requested that some of her nuns be allowed to take classes at Santa Clara University.

Father Hauck explains in this letter that they were only able to accept women into master's programs, not bachelors, and that while he and others at the university would like to accept the nuns as undergraduate students, it was a matter that they would have to take to their superiors.

In this letter, Father Hauck regrettably informs Sister Augustine that he took the matter of the nuns coming to SCU as undergraduate students to his superiors and they would not allow the nuns to study as undergraduate students.