Dive Brief:

• Trustees at Pittsburgh's Chatham University have voted to admit men to the school’s undergraduate program for the first time.
• Chatham’s first male undergrads will be admitted in the fall of 2015. The college was founded in 1869 as Pennsylvania Female College.
• The school’s leaders said the change was necessary to help turn around Chatham’s enrollment and financial declines.

Dive Insight:

Another all-women’s school takes the co-ed plunge, and women’s colleges now number less than 50 — down from 200 in the 1960s, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Of college-bound high school females, only 2% to 4% want to attend a women’s college. Some alumni and students were not happy with the change at Chatham, and they held a small protest on the campus quad in a roped-in "free speech" zone as the trustees voted. Chatham’s graduate program has been co-ed for many years and now has about 1,700 of the university’s students. About 500 are enrolled in the all-female undergraduate program, which saw enrollment peak at 750 in 2008.