The Citadel -The Military College of South Carolina

The–The Military College of South Carolina Citadel

The–The Military College of South Carolina Citadel sĬt´ədəl, –dĕl´ , at Charleston; state supported; chartered (1842) as The Citadel, opened 1843. From 1882 to 1910 it was named the South Carolina Military Academy. Cadets are subject to military regulations. The exclusion of women from the traditionally all-male corps of cadets was challenged in court in the mid-1990s, and a state-sponsored South Carolina Institute of Leadership for Women opened (1995) at Converse College, Spartanburg, S.C., as a parallel program for women. In 1996, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a similar program at the Virginia Military Institute was inadequate, The Citadel voted to admit women to the cadet corps, and in 1999 the first woman graduated from the school.

Bibliography: See study by C. S. Manegold (2000).

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Citadel, The

Citadel, The an undergraduate and graduate private military school in Charleston, South Carolina. Established in 1842 by the South Carolina General Assembly, it formed the South Carolina Military Academy with the Arsenal in Columbia. It is state-funded and first admitted female cadets in 1996.

Occupied by Union forces from 1865 to 1879, it was closed during the Reconstruction and reopened in 1881.

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