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Wellesley College is a private women's liberal arts college in Wellesley, Massachusetts.Founded in 1870 by Henry and Pauline Durant as a female seminary, it is a member of the Seven Sisters Colleges, an unofficial grouping of current and former women's colleges in the northeastern United States.
Trinity Washington University, Washington (primary undergraduate college remains women-only; Trinity College until 2004) Washington College of Law at American University, Tenleytown (although female-serving and originally women-only, first admitted males in 1897) Dunbarton College of the Holy Cross, Washington, D.C., founded in 1935, closed in 1973
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 ...
Wellesley, a Massachusetts-based women's college, has responded by investing more in front-line admissions officers and building better relationships with community-based organizations, she said.
Students at Wellesley College, the elite Massachusetts women's school that counts Hillary Clinton and Madeleine Albright among its alumnae, voted Tuesday night to make transgender men and ...
Former president of Wellesley College, H. Kim Bottomly, noted the importance of women's leadership development to both the Albright Institute and Wellesley College at large, stating that the Albright Institute "play[s] a critical role in Wellesley's education of future women leaders across the world."
This category should be limited to articles on colleges in the United States which are currently women-only, ... Wellesley College (1 C, 10 P) Wesleyan College ...
Roxana Vivian, 1894 – mathematics professor at Wellesley College, the first in her department to hold a doctorate, and Hartwick College. Diana Chapman Walsh, 1966 – former president, Wellesley College; Ernestine Wiedenbach, 1922 – nursing theorist