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Smith College Commencement Speaker Withdraws After Protests
Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund has decided not to give the commencement address at Smith College. A faculty/student petition charged that the IMF is a “corrupt system” that was complicit in the oppression and abuse of women around the world.
Sweet Briar College President to Lead the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh
Jo Ellen Parker was named the 10th president of Sweet Briar College in 2009. In August she will become president of the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh which reach nearly 1.3 million per year through museum visits, educational programs, and special events.
Bay Path College to Establish an Online Higher Education Institution for Women
Carol Leary, president of Bay Path College, a liberal arts college for women in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, has announced the establishment of an online institution for higher learning designed exclusively for women. New master’s degree programs will also be offered at Bay Path College.
Another Women’s College Decides to Admit Men
The board of trustees of Chatham University in Pittsburgh has voted to admit men to its undergraduate programs for the first time. Men will be permitted to enroll in undergraduate programs in the fall of 2015.
New Technology for Teacher Training Comes to Texas Woman’s University
Texas Woman’s University is one of only 40 educational institutions in the nation using TeachLivE, an interactive computer-simulated classroom where teacher education students interact with “virtual” children.
College of Saint Benedict Names Mary Hinton President
Dr. Hinton currently serves as vice president for academic affairs at Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh, New York. Earlier in her career, she was associate vice president for academic affairs at Misericordia University in Dallas, Pennsylvania.
Marylou Yam to Lead Notre Dame of Maryland University
Dr. Yam has been serving as provost and vice president for academic affairs at St. Peter’s University in Jersey City, New Jersey. Earlier she was dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and the business school at St. Peter’s University.
Another Women’s College Is Considering Admitting Men
The College of St. Elizabeth in Morristown New Jersey, has seen a drop in enrollments of more than 26 percent since 2012. The college is laying off faculty, reassessing existing academic programs, and may consider admitting men to its on-campus undergraduate programs.
Smith College Launches a New Online Journal, Global Impressions
Smith College, the highly rated liberal arts educational institution for women in Northampton, Massachusetts, had announced the creation of a new student-run online journal focusing on study abroad and cross-cultural experiences.
Mount Holyoke College to Fund Internships for All Students
A new internship program called The Lynk will be aimed at connecting students’ academic work with practical experience and career exploration. In addition to a funded internship, the program will provide counseling, professional development, networking, and other activities.
Chatham University in Pittsburgh Considering Admitting Men to Undergraduate Programs
Chatham College for Women, was founded in 1869 as Pennsylvania Female College and is one of the oldest women’s colleges in the United States. It enrolls 588 undergraduate students, all of whom are women. Graduate programs at Chatham University have a higher enrollment and are coeducational.
Vast New Additions to the Digital Archive of Browning Letters
Wellesley College in Massachusetts and Baylor University in Waco, Texas, have greatly expanded their online archive of letters written by English poets Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning.
Leading Women’s Colleges Far Down the List on Lumosity’s Rankings of Colleges With the “Smartest Students”
Wellesley College ranked in 106th place. Smith College held the 122nd position and Mount Holyoke ranked 326th out of the 456 colleges and universities included in the rankings.
First MasterCard Foundation Scholars Complete Their First Semester at Wellesley College
Wellesley College, the highly rated liberal arts educational institution for women in Massachusetts is one of 10 colleges and universities who plan to bring up to 15,000 students from developing nations to study in the U.S. over the next decade.
Mississippi University for Women to Offer New Public History Degree
Generally public history is geared toward people who are interested in research and not necessarily in an academic setting. Public history graduates frequently are employed by museums, historic sites, government agencies, and national parks and battlefields.
Bryn Mawr College Faculty Members Vote for Open Access for Their Scholarly Works
Bryn Mawr College, the highly rated women’s college in Pennsylvania, has announced that its faculty has approved an open access policy that will enable all of their scholarly works to be made available free to the public.
Alverno College Embarks on Major Expansion and Renovation Project
The woman’s college on the south side of Milwaukee will construct a new 50,000-square-foot classroom building that will also include a nursing simulation center as well as art and dance studios.
Scripps College Launches Major Fundraising Effort
Scripps College, the highly rated liberal arts college for women in Claremont, California, has announced the launch of a $175 million fundraising campaign. About $82 million of the goal has been met with $45 million pledged by trustees of the college.
Texas Woman’s University to Continue to Require Women’s Studies
Despite new state regulations standardizing the core curriculum to some degree across all publicly operated colleges and universities in the state, Texas Woman’s University recently announced that women’s studies will remain a requirement at the university.
New Exhibit Documents Early Twentieth-Century Summer School for Working Women at Bryn Mawr College
The summer school at Bryn Mawr College was meant to give working women a taste of the educational experience that at that time was largely a luxury for upper-class women.
Cornell Signs Partnership Agreement With Ewha Womans University
The new agreement will expand scholarly and cultural exchanges between Cornell and Ewha Womans University in Korea. The agreement calls for faculty exchanges, research collaboration projects, and a Korean studies speaker series.
Wellesley College Opens a New Human Computer Interaction Laboratory
Wellesley College, the highly ranked liberal arts institution for women in suburban Boston, recently opened its new facility where it hopes science, technology, and art can come together in creative new ways.
President of the College of Saint Benedict Announces Her Retirement
MaryAnn Baenninger, the 14th president of the College of Saint Benedict in Saint Joseph, Minnesota, will leave her post on June 30, 2014. When Dr. Baenninger leaves office, she will have served as president for 10 years. She holds a Ph.D. from Temple University.
Barnard College Upgrades Its Africana Studies Program
Barnard College, the highly rated liberal arts educational institution for women in New York City, has elevated its African Studies Program to a full academic department.
Portuguese Is the 15th Foreign Language to Join the Wellesley College Curriculum
Portuguese is the sixth most common language in the world. The other foreign languages taught at Wellesley are Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi-Urdu, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Russian, Spanish and Swahili.
Where Do Women’s Colleges Stand in the New U.S. News Rankings?
Wellesley College in Massachusetts was the highest-rated, ranking seventh overall in the U.S. News rankings of the best liberal arts colleges. Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts and Scripps College in Claremont, California, were also ranked among the top 25 liberal arts colleges.
St. Catherine University to Offer New MBA Program
The university’s undergraduate programs are primarily for women but the new MBA program will be open to both men and women. Students will be able to choose one of three concentrations: healthcare, management, and integrated marketing communications.
Two Women’s Colleges in Virginia Exploring Cooperative Measures
Using a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Sweet Briar College and Hollins University in Roanoke will examine whether it is possible to cooperate in certain administrative areas that would help both institutions reduce costs.
Brenau University Reports Its Largest First-Year Class in History
Brenau University, the educational institution for women in Gainesville, Georgia, has the largest first-year class in the college’s history. There are 215 women in this year’s entering class, up from 176 a year ago.
Athletics Program at Texas Woman’s University Receives Its Largest-Ever Donation
Texas Woman’s University in Denton received a $420,000 donation from the estate of alumna Agnes C. Talley. The gift, the largest ever made to the university’s athletics program, will be used to fund scholarships for student athletes.
Salem College to Offer Three New Degree Programs
Salem College, a liberal arts college for women in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, has announced that it will offer three new degree programs this fall. Students at Salem College will now be able to major in political science, biochemistry, or design.
Texas Woman’s University to Offer New Online Degree Program in Special Education
The hybrid master’s degree program in special education involves mostly online course offerings but students will be requires to take some courses on campus.
Smith College Receives the Literary Papers of Author Ann M. Martin
Martin is the creator of The Baby-sitters Club, a series of novels between 1986 and 2000, that sold 170 million copies. Overall there were 213 novels in the series. Martin wrote at least 60 of the books herself and the others had ghost writers.
Bryn Mawr to Add the First New Student Housing in Nearly Half a Century
Bryn Mawr College, the prestigious liberal arts college for women in suburban Philadelphia, has announced plans to build the first new student housing on campus in 45 years.
Pine Manor College to Become Fully Co-Educational
The liberal arts college in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, was founded in 1911 and remained exclusively for women until 1996. Now, for the first time, the college has decided to admit men to it regular bachelor’s degree programs.
