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Pages in category "Former women's universities and colleges in the United States" The following 197 pages are in this category, out of 197 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Hamilton College, Lexington was founded in 1869 as Hocker Female College. a private women's college affiliated with the Disciples of Christ. Its name changed in 1878. In 1889, Kentucky University (later Transylvania University), bought a stake in the school, taking total control in 1903. Closed in 1932. John Lyle's Female Seminary (founded in ...
1848: Philadelphia School of Design for Women (now Moore College of Art and Design) is the first and only art school which is a women's college. 1848: Chowan Baptist Female Institute (now Chowan University) is in Murfreesboro, North Carolina. It became Chowan College in 1910 when it began awarding baccalaureate degrees. It began admitting male ...
The Women's College Coalition (WCC) was founded in 1979 and describes itself as an "association of women's colleges and universities – public and private, independent and church-related, two- and four-year – in the United States and Canada whose primary mission is the education and advancement of women." [16]
An 1861 oil portrait of Matthew Vassar by Charles Loring Elliott. Vassar was founded as a women's school under the name Vassar Female College in 1861. [6] Its first president was Milo P. Jewett, who had previously been first president of another women's school, Judson College; [7] he led a staff of ten professors and twenty-one instructors. [8]
The consortium was founded in 1915 when Vassar President Henry Noble MacCracken called Vassar, Wellesley, Smith, and Mount Holyoke together “to deliver women opportunities for higher education that would improve the quality of life for the human family and that would put them on an equal footing with men in a democracy that was about to offer them the vote.” [3] The success of this Four ...
Former women's universities and colleges in the United States (25 C, 197 P) Pages in category "Former women's universities and colleges" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
Current and former female presidents or chancellors of co-ed colleges and universities are listed in order of the inaugural year. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items . ( September 2015 )