The idea of transforming Dartmouth from an all-male school to a coeducational institution had been around for nearly a decade, but when Kemeny took office, it was less a question of if than of how to do it without reducing the number of spaces available to men. The answer: increase the student body. But how to do that and not go bankrupt building new dormitories and classrooms? Kemeny's solution was the Dartmouth Plan (also known as the D-Plan), under which the College would operate year-round in four academic quarters. Increased off-campus opportunities - internships, volunteering, study abroad - meant the number of students on campus in any quarter would be no greater than before. In 1972 women joined men in pursuit of an A.B. degree. "The Class of 1976 will always be very special to me," Kemeny later reflected, "not only because there happened to be a Kemeny in that particular class [Jenny Kemeny '76] but because it was the first class in the history of Darmouth that had entered as a coeducational class."