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An 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. [6] Its first president was Milo P. Jewett, who had previously been first president of another women's school, Judson College; [7] he led a staff of ten professors and twenty-one instructors. [8]
Hill was also responsible for the Williams College Museum of Art, the Williams College Libraries and the offices of Admissions, Financial Aid and Information Technology. In addition, she was a member of the Committee on Appointments and Promotions, which makes all reappointment and tenure decisions and allocates faculty positions.
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 ...
Elizabeth Williams Champney, class of 1869 – author of Three Vassar Girls series; Barbara Culliton, science journalist and editor; Dorothy Deming, nurse and author; Rebecca Odes – author and co-founder of Gurl.com; Mary Harriott Norris, class of 1870 – author and dean of women; Mary Parker Woodworth, class of 1870 – writer and speaker
Ryberg accepted the position after another alumna of the academy, Lily Ross Taylor, left Vassar to accept a position at Bryn Mawr College. [5] Ryberg became chair of the classics department in 1942, when Elizabeth H. Haight retired, and held the position until her retirement, with the exception of 1949–1952 when she returned to the academy ...
The Common Application requires that personal statements be 250 to 650 words in length. [124] Although applicants may strive to reach the word limit, college admissions officers emphasize that the most important part is honing and rewriting: Writing is easy; rewriting is hard. And essays deserve to be rewritten several times.
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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.