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The Kentucky Foundation for Women is a 501(c)3 private, independent foundation that was established in 1985 by author Sallie Bingham [2] of Louisville, Kentucky. At the time, Ms. Bingham's philanthropic gift of $10 million was the largest endowment to any women's fund in the United States.
The campus was expanded to include East Hall which included dormitory rooms and a dining hall. [13] [14] [8] Morgan Hall was added around 1914; it house the college's library. [8] [15] The campus also featured an aesthetic garden. [16] Morgan Hall, East Hall, and West Hall of Kentucky College for Women, Danville, Kentucky, c. 1914
Lynnland Female Institute was a private women's liberal arts college located in Glendale, Kentucky, a small community in Hardin County. The campus was originally located near the historic Louisville and Nashville Railroad midway between Glendale and the Nolin Station. It is one of the oldest women's colleges in Kentucky.
The Kentucky Federation of Women's Clubs (KFWC) is a community and civic umbrella organization for women in Kentucky. It was founded in 1894 and is affiliated with the General Federation of Women's Clubs (GFWC). [1] The KFWC helped bring about various reforms in Kentucky and expanded educational opportunities to citizens.
Bethel College was a Baptist-affiliated college in Kentucky founded in 1854 and closed in 1964. Throughout most of its history, the Hopkinsville campus was a women's college while the Russellville campus was a men's college.
In 1920, the Sisters opened Nazareth College in Louisville, Kentucky's first, four-year, Catholic college for women. The former campus renamed as the Nazareth Junior College at the same time but was eventually folded into the main campus in Louisville in 1940. [4] The Louisville and Nazareth campuses merged.
The pillars outside the main entrance of the campus still show "Sayre College." In 1947 the high school grades were discontinued, and the boarding rooms were leased to the University of Kentucky . In 1961 an English teacher from Lafayette High School, Donn D. Hollingsworth, was appointed headmaster and the high school was reinstated, in ...
The Women's Board also allocated $55,000 for an endowment fund for scholarships, lectureships and a small student loan fund. [5] In 1902 the Southern Methodist General Conference agreed to the plan presented by Belle Harris Bennett to establish the deaconess movement and the Scarritt Bible and Training School blossomed under the new standards ...