raised enough money to appeal both dismissals, and a group of nine students brought the case to the Virginia Supreme Court. "Richmond lawyer Wyatt B. Durrette Jr. asked the state's high court to grant an appeal of the group's lawsuit." Professor emeritus of Romance languages, Charlotte Stern, published the 24-page letter on the PEC website (with signatures from alumnae, former professors and a former president of Randolph's board of trustees) condemning the decision. Ginger Hill Worden, Interim President, responded to this letter. The Virginia Supreme Court agreed to hear appeals in both the student contract and charitable trust cases. The Court affirmed the trial court's decision in both cases in opinions issued June 6, 2008. The institution was renamed Randolph College on July 1, 2007, when it became coeducational. More recently, Midway University in Kentucky, which already had coeducational evening, weekend, and online programs, became fully coeducational when it admitted men to its daytime undergraduate program for the first time at the start of the 2016–17 school year. When announcing this change, the school's president cited surveys indicating that only about 2% of high school girls wanted to attend a women-only college, and added, "We see this change as strengthening our historic mission to educate women by broadening our reach to that 98 percent of young women who would never consider a women's college." See also List of current and historical women's universities and colleges in the United States Timeline of women's colleges in the United States Women's colleges in the United States Women's College Coalition Seven Sisters (colleges) References Further reading Guy-Sheftall, Beverly. "Black Women and Higher Education: Spelman and Bennett Colleges Revisited." The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 51, No. 3, The Impact of Black Women in Education: An Historical Overview (Summer, 1982), pp. 278–287. Muhlenfeld, Elisabeth and Nancy Gray. "Women's colleges must be an option." The Roanoke Times'', September 14, 2006. External links "Giving Voice to a New Generation: Metro Atlanta's three women's colleges are going strong, even while the number of women's colleges nationwide has declined" (Agnes Scott College, Spelman College, and Brenau University) "In Virginia, three elite women's colleges reinvent themselves and find a new mission in a coed world" (Sweet Briar College, Hollins University, and Mary Baldwin College) "All women, and thriving" (Meredith College and Peace College) Southern United States