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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 .
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 ...
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
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."
MarMon time: For Wellesley College co-eds, Boston Marathon is a real scream At 9:30 a.m., before even the wheelchair competitors had arrived in Wellesley, Julia Reste and her friends were already ...
Paula Adina Johnson (born 1959) [1] is an American cardiologist and the current president of Wellesley College.She is the first Black woman to serve in this role. [2]Prior to her role as president of Wellesley, Johnson founded and served as the inaugural executive director of the Mary Horrigan Connors Center for Women's Health & Gender Biology, [3] as well as Chief of the Division of Women's ...