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History 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. Its first president was Milo P. Jewett, who had previously been first president of another women's school, Judson College; he led a staff of ten professors and twenty-one instructors.
Elizabeth Howe Bradley (born 1962) is the eleventh President of Vassar College, a role she assumed on July 1, 2017. Bradley also holds a joint appointment as Professor of Political Science and Professor of Science, Technology, and Society. Previously Bradley was Brady-Johnson Professor of Grand Strategy and Founder and Faculty Director of the ...
Heloise Hersey, class of 1876 – professor of literature [1] Emily Jordan Folger, class of 1879 – co-founder of the Folger Shakespeare Library. Anita Florence Hemmings, class of 1897 – Vassar College's first African-American graduate. Scottie Fitzgerald, class of 1942 – writer and journalist, only daughter of novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald.
The Seven Sisters are a group of seven liberal arts colleges in the Northeastern United States that are historically women's colleges. [1] Barnard College, Bryn Mawr College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and Wellesley College are still women's colleges. Vassar College became coeducational in 1969, and Radcliffe College was absorbed in ...
1787: Young Ladies' Academy of Philadelphia was the first government-recognized institution established for women's higher education in the United States. 1803: Bradford Academy (later renamed Bradford College) was the first academy in Massachusetts to admit women. The first graduating class had 37 women and 14 men.
Lowest spending=1; Highest=103. Elizabeth Public Schools is a public school district in Elizabeth, in Union County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, serving students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade. The district is one of 31 former Abbott districts statewide that were established pursuant to the decision by the New Jersey Supreme ...
The Main Building of Vassar College is the oldest surviving building on its campus in Poughkeepsie, New York, and the center of academic life. It was built by James Renwick Jr. in the Second Empire style in 1861, the second building in the history of what was one of America's first women's colleges. It is one of the earliest, largest, and most ...
When Vassar opened in 1865, the library was a mere single room in Main with a collection of only three thousand books. In 1893 Frederick Ferris Thompson, a Vassar trustee, gave the college an extension to Main hall that served as a library until the new Thompson building was completed in 1905 by Mary Clark Thompson as a memorial for her husband.