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2. List of women's universities and colleges in the United States

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   Harwarth, Irene B. "A Closer Look at Women's Colleges." National Institute on Postsecondary Education, Libraries, and Lifelong Learning, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education, 1999.---, Mindi Maline and Elizabeth DeBra. "Women's Colleges in the United States: History, Issues, and Challenges: Executive ...

3. Women's colleges in the United States - Wikipedia

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   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]

4. Seven Sisters (colleges) - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

5. Timeline of women's colleges in the United States - Wikipedia

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   It was the fifth-oldest women's college in the U.S. when it announced its closure in 2021. [1] 1842: Valley Union Seminary (now Hollins University) is the oldest chartered women's college in Virginia. 1844: Saint Mary's College (Indiana) was founded by the Sisters of the Holy Cross. It was the first women's college in the Great Lakes region. It ...

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7. Women's college - Wikipedia

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   While during the 1960s there were 240 women's colleges in the U.S., only about 40 remain as of 2015. [6] In the words of a teacher at Radcliffe (a women's college that merged with Harvard): "[i]f women’s colleges become unnecessary, if women’s colleges become irrelevant, then that’s a sign of our [women's] success." [7]