Duke University | Baldwin Scholars Program

Senior Year

Baldwin Scholars come back together in the classroom in the fall for a senior seminar entitled "Women in the Professions." Seniors also enjoy a number of events leading up to their graduation, including a senior dinner and other celebratory occasions.

Women and the Professions Baldwin Scholars senior seminar

The seminar is designed as an opportunity to reflect on women and the professions generally and to prepare students for post-collegiate futures more specifically.  Dr. Jean O'Barr, professor emeritus, leads the seminar.  Students will be challenged to take up three sets of questions:

  • How did contemporary American women earn a place in the professions over the past hundred years?
  • What is the current status of women in the professions?  
  • What the are policies, preferences and possibilities before this generation of educated women?