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La Salle Extension University (1908–1982, Chicago) Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Chicago (1983–2017, Chicago) Lexington College (1977–2014, Chicago) Mallinckrodt College (1916–1991, Wilmette), merged with Loyola University Chicago [4] [5] Mundelein College (1930–1991, Chicago) merged with Loyola University of Chicago [6]
Mundelein College was a private, independent, Roman Catholic women's college in Chicago, Illinois. Located on the edge of the Rogers Park and Edgewater neighborhoods on the far north side of the city, Mundelein College was founded and administered by the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary .
Colby–Sawyer College, New London (women's college from 1928 to 1990; co-ed since 1991) Mount Saint Mary College, Hooksett (closed in 1978) Notre Dame College, Manchester (became co-ed in 1985; closed in 2002; academic programs merged into Southern New Hampshire University) [14] Pierce College for Women, Concord (closed in 1972)
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]
Barat College began as an academy for young women in Chicago in 1858 and moved to its Lake Forest location in 1904. In 1918, the state of Illinois chartered Barat as a four-year college. [1] In 1964 85 women graduated from the university. [2] In 1982, Barat became a coeducational institution.
Lexington College was a Catholic women's college located in Chicago, Illinois. The curriculum was focused entirely on hospitality management studies . Originally known as the Lexington Institute of Hospitality Careers , the college opened in 1977 and closed in 2014.
The name was changed to MacMurray College for Women in 1930 to honor James E. MacMurray, who was an Illinois state senator, president of Acme Steel Corporation in Chicago, and college trustee whose commitment led to a substantial increase in the college's facilities and endowment in the late 1920s and 1930s.
The Junior College system in the post-war years opened Bogan Junior College in southwest Chicago, Fenger College, Southeast College, and Truman College (named for U.S. President Harry S Truman, 1884–1972), in the 1950s. Originally Truman was an evening program located at the city's Amundsen High School.