“…Three of these programs (CMI, Johns Hopkins, and MCA) were certificate programs and 3 were master's degree programs (Catholic University, Columbia, and Yale 10,24 (Figure 3). The other 4 programs in existence between 1930 and the 1950s were all certificate programs: The Frontier Graduate School of Midwifery started in 1939 (Figure 4), the Tuskegee School of Nurse‐Midwifery in existence from 1941 to 1946, the Flint‐Goodrich School of Nurse‐Midwifery from 1942 to 1943, and the School of Nurse‐Midwifery of the Puerto Rico Department of Health at Hato Rey in existence from 1954 to 1960 2,3,10,23,25,26 . This meant that while nurse‐midwifery educators were talking about situating nurse‐midwifery education within or affiliated with university settings, the reality was that more than half of the existing programs were neither.…”