Editing RPI Becomes Coeducational (section)

=Introduction=
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, is a Polytechnic Institute in Troy NY, established by Stephen Van Rensselaer in 1824. It was initially called the Rensselaer School, then renamed to the Rensselaer Institute in 1834, before being renamed once more to what we know it as today: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

The University was strictly a male-only school until 1942, although there is record of 8 women enrolling into a special mathematics course at RPI.

Despite the school's high ratio of men to women, Shirley Ann Jackson was the first female president to be elected in 1999.