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Mount Holyoke College is a private liberal arts women's college in South Hadley, Massachusetts, United States. [11] It is the oldest member of the historic Seven Sisters colleges, a group of historically female colleges in the Northeastern United States. [12] The college was founded in 1837 as the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary by Mary Lyon, a ...
Alice Stone Ilchman 1957 - former president, Sarah Lawrence College. Elizabeth Topham Kennan, 1960 - former president, Mount Holyoke College. Carol Geary Schneider, 1967 - president, Association of American Colleges and Universities. Nancy J. Vickers, 1967 - president, Bryn Mawr College.
There are also eleven Catholic post-secondary institutions, including Boston College, the College of the Holy Cross, and Stonehill College. There are also two Judaic post-secondary institutions in Massachusetts, including Brandeis University and Hebrew College. The state has four medical schools, Boston University School of Medicine, Harvard ...
Danielle R. Holley (born c. 1974) [1] is an American academic administrator serving as the 20th President of Mount Holyoke College. Her term began on July 1, 2023, with her official inauguration taking place on September 21, 2023. She is the first Black woman to be permanently appointed President of the College.
Ipswich Female Seminary. Profession. Professor. Signature. Elizabeth Storrs Mead ( née Billings; May 21, 1832 – March 25, 1917) was an American educator who was the 9th President of Mount Holyoke College from 1890 - 1900. She taught at Andover Seminary and Oberlin College, before becoming the first non-alumna president of Mount Holyoke. [ 1]
She graduated from Oakwood School in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1950, received her B.A. in English literature from Mount Holyoke College in 1954, her M.A. from Columbia University in 1960, and continued further graduate work at George Washington University from 1961 to 1964.
Worked in an elementary school in Audrain County. Anna Jane Harrison (December 23, 1912 – August 8, 1998) was an American organic chemist and a professor of chemistry at Mount Holyoke College for nearly forty years. She was the first female president of the American Chemical Society, [1] and the recipient of twenty honorary degrees. [2]
Presidents of Mount Holyoke College, originally Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (the Head of the school was called "principal" until 1888, when it was replaced by "president.)" [1] Pages in category "Presidents and Principals of Mount Holyoke College"