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Women’s colleges are a dwindling breed in the United States.</p>
<p>So this spring, the admissions deans of the five leading women’s colleges Bryn Mawr, Barnard, Mount Holyoke, Wellesley and Smith went recruiting to a place where single-sex education is more than a niche product: the Middle East.</p>
<p>For three weeks, they visited schools in Jordan, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman and the United Arab Emirates, describing what a liberal-arts women’s college can offer ambitious students.
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<p>Link to the entire article:</p>
<p>[Education</a> | Women’s colleges recruit students in Mideast | Seattle Times Newspaper](<a href=“http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/education/2004453709_women03.html]Education ”>http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/education/2004453709_women03.html )</p>
<p>Sounds like a win-win situation - the colleges get students (full-paying?), the young women get a good education. I hope they help them get the proper visas!</p>