Historically Women's College

Abbreviated as HWC. A term coined to reflect the changing environments of many colleges and universities that either formerly or currently only accept cisgender women. Referring to something as an HWC can either mean that it's now co-ed, that their policies regarding gender non-conforming and nonbinary individuals are more relaxed, or as a way to recognize the fact that not everyone who attends a college branded as "a women's college" is necessarily a woman.