On May 30, Rosemont's board of trustees of approved a strategic plan which includes admitting undergraduate men for the first time in the fall of 2009.

The unanimous vote by the board, of which 38 percent are alumni and 25 percent are members of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus, the college's sponsoring religious congregation, comes after more than 15 months of study, research, discussion, and deliberation.

"At the beginning of this process, and in many cases throughout the process, the majority of those involved did not want Rosemont to become co-ed at the undergraduate level, myself included, though we have been co-ed at the graduate level and in our professional studies programs for more than 20 years," said chair Ron Remick. "We all have been great proponents of the Undergraduate Women's College and we know, understand, and value the merits of an all-women's education; however, through our analysis, research, and evaluation we learned that Rosemont cannot continue to be viable as a Catholic single-sex college at the undergraduate level."

Rosemont is a member of the Pennsylvania Athletic Conference, which becomes the Colonial States Athletic Conference on July 1. Athletics was not specifically mentioned in the school's release, but the school would likely join other formerly all-women's institutions such as Hood, Regis, Randolph, Immaculata and Wells in adding men's athletics. Basketball could come as soon as 2009-10 but is more likely in 2010-11.