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The 1930s also saw tremendous changes in women's education at the college level. In 1900, there were 85,338 female college students in the United States and 5,237 earned their bachelor's degrees; by 1940, there were 600,953 female college students and 77,000 earned bachelor's degrees. [37]
Michelle Ann Rhee (born December 25, 1969) is an American educator and advocate for education reform. [ 1] She was Chancellor of District of Columbia Public Schools from 2007 to 2010. In late 2010, she founded StudentsFirst, a non-profit organization that works on education reform. [ 2]
Kentucky College for Women, Danville, formerly Caldwell Female College, merged with Centre College in 1926 (as the women's department) but did not formally consolidate with Centre until 1930. Women students didn't move to the Centre campus until 1962. Lexington Female College, Lexington, Kentucky [7] Logan Female College, Russellville (closed ...
Fanny Jackson Coppin (October 15, 1837 – January 21, 1913) was an American educator, missionary and lifelong advocate for female higher education.One of the first Black alumnae of Oberlin College, she served as principal of the Institute for Colored Youth in Philadelphia and became the first African American school superintendent in the United States.
Marjorie Lee Browne was a prominent mathematician and educator who, in 1949, became only the third African-American woman to earn a doctorate in her field. Browne was born on September 9, 1914, in Memphis, Tennessee, to Mary Taylor Lee and Lawrence Johnson Lee. Her father, a railway postal clerk remarried shortly after his wife's death, when ...
Radcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that was founded in 1879.In 1999, it was fully incorporated into Harvard College.The college was named for the early Harvard benefactor Lady Ann Mowlson (née Radcliffe) and was one of the Seven Sisters colleges.
Mary Lyndon Shanley, 1966 – legal scholar, professor of political science at Vassar College. Jennifer S. Thaler, 1993 – professor of Entomology at Cornell University. Ellen Umansky, 1972 – professor of Judaic studies. Roxana Vivian, 1894 – mathematics professor at Wellesley College, the first in her department to hold a doctorate, and ...
Mary Jackson ( née Winston; [ 1] April 9, 1921 – February 11, 2005) was an American mathematician and aerospace engineer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), which in 1958 was succeeded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). She worked at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, for most of ...