Mount Ida College

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Mount Ida College
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Former names
Mount Ida School for Girls, Mount Ida Junior College
TypePrivate
Active1899–2018
Endowment $23.5 million (as of June 30, 2016) [1]
Academic staff
59 (Fall 2016) [2]
Students1,389 (Fall 2016) [2]
Undergraduates 1,352 (Fall 2016) [2]
Postgraduates 37 (Fall 2016) [2]
Location
Newton
,
Massachusetts
,
United States

42°17′39″N71°11′36″W / 42.29417°N 71.19333°W / 42.29417; -71.19333
Campus Suburban, 72 acres (29 ha)
Colors Green & White
Nickname Mustangs
Affiliations NCAA Division III
MascotMustangs
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Holbrook Hall Holbrook Hall, Mount Ida College, Newton MA.jpg
Holbrook Hall

Mount Ida College was a private college in Newton, Massachusetts.

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In 2018, the University of Massachusetts Amherst acquired the campus and renamed it the Mount Ida Campus of UMass Amherst. [3] [4]

History

The Mount Ida School for Girls, once a high school, became a finishing school and was founded in 1899 by George Franklin Jewett, and was named after the hill on which it was located in Newton Corner, Massachusetts.

After encountering severe financial difficulties, it was forced to close during the Great Depression, [5] but was purchased by William Fitts Carlson in 1939 and relocated to its present location in the Oak Hill section of Newton.

The first junior college level courses were offered at Mount Ida in the mid-1900s, and the school was officially re-branded as a junior college in 1961. It was subsequently granted the ability to award associate degrees with the first being awarded in 1967. [6]

The school was later renamed as Mount Ida Junior College, and became a co-educational institution in 1972 which was a logical step since so many Vietnam veterans were attending college in the 1970s thanks to the G.I. Bill. Several Boston-based institutions also merged with Mount Ida on the Newton campus: Chamberlayne Junior College (1988), [7] New England Institute of Funeral Service Education (1989), [8] and Coyne Electrical and Technical School. [6]

The Senior College division awarding bachelor's degrees began In 1982. Massachusetts allowed Mount Ida to grant three bachelor's degrees as Mount Ida filed to drop the "Junior" part of the college name. The Senior Degree program was fully accredited in 1984, with an emphasis on career and professional education. [6] In 2012, Barry Brown was appointed president of the college.

UMass Amherst announced plans to acquire the Newton campus in April 2018. Classes ended after the commencement in the spring of 2018 and students of the small school were offered automatic admission to UMass Dartmouth (though that university does not have all of the same academic programs). [3] Newbury College (which itself closed in 2019) announced that it would grant full transfer credit to Mount Ida students and would help them finish their degrees. [9] Keene State College and Worcester State University also invited students to their campuses and committed to review applications for immediate acceptance and full credit transfer. [10]

Campus

Located in Newton, Massachusetts, Mount Ida College was located on a 72-acre campus [3] that once belonged to William Sumner Appleton (1840–1903), father of William Sumner Appleton Jr. The estate was transferred to Robert Gould Shaw II after Appleton's death. Shaw commissioned Boston architect James Lovell Little Junior to build a carriage house and horse stable in 1910; this building was subsequently refurbished and was known as Holbrook Hall. [11] The building known as Shaw Hall, which became the nucleus for the Mount Ida campus, was also commissioned by Shaw and designed by Little in 1912. The building known as Hallden Academic Support Center was also constructed in 1912, presumably by Little. [12]

The Shaw fortune collapsed during the Great Depression, and Dr. Carlson purchased the vacant and decaying Shaw Estate and reopened Mount Ida Junior College in 1939. In 1956, a two-story dormitory designed by architect Albert C. Rugo was added to Shaw Hall. Rugo designed several other buildings that were added to the complex in the 1950s and 1960s. [5]

Academics

Mount Ida College consisted of four schools (which included some prominent stand-alone schools prior to merger)

The Gallery at Mount Ida College held exhibitions of regional, national, and international fine artists and designers. The Gallery had featured works in photography, painting, sculpture, video, and a variety of other art forms. The Gallery opened in 1999, allowing artists and designers to have a showcase for traditional and alternative media works as an innovative part of the Mount Ida College Learning Community. [13]

Athletics

Mount Ida's athletes competed as the Mustangs in the Great Northeast Athletic Conference in NCAA Division III varsity sports, as well as IHSA equestrian competition. [14] [15] Three teams captured North Atlantic Conference (NAC) championships: the 1999, 2000 men's soccer team, the 2002 women's volleyball team, [16] and the 2007 men's lacrosse team. [17] The Mount Ida Mustangs football team competed from 1999 to 2017, compiling an all-time record of compiled an all-time record of 76–119 in 19 seasons and sharing the Eastern Collegiate Football Conference (ECFC) championship in 2012.

Notable alumni

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References

  1. ↑ "990 tax filing" (PDF). Retrieved April 13, 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Facts & Figures - Mount Ida College". Archived from the original on 2017-09-08.
  3. 1 2 3 "Mount Ida College to close; UMass to acquire Newton campus". The Boston Globe. Retrieved April 6, 2018.
  4. ↑ Stendahl, Max (April 22, 2018). "Mount Ida spent $30M to upgrade campus that will be sold to UMass". Boston Business Journal . Retrieved April 24, 2018.
  5. 1 2 "Shaw Hall". Council of Independent Colleges Historic Campus Architecture Project. Washington, D.C.: Council of Independent Colleges. 2006. Retrieved June 27, 2011.
  6. 1 2 3 "History of Mount Ida College". About Mount Ida. Newton, Massachusetts: Mount Ida College. 2011. Archived from the original on July 5, 2011. Retrieved June 27, 2011.
  7. ↑ Brown, Ray C. (October 3, 2008). "Massachusetts Colleges that have Closed, Merged, Changed Names" . Retrieved December 22, 2014.
  8. ↑ "History of New England Institute". New England Institute at Mount Ida College. Newton, Massachusetts: Mount Ida College. 2011. Archived from the original on July 5, 2011. Retrieved June 27, 2011.
  9. ↑ "A Message to Mount Ida Students". newbury.edu. Retrieved April 13, 2018.
  10. ↑ "Keene State offers quick decisions for Mount Ida students". The Boston Globe . AP. April 10, 2018. Retrieved April 13, 2018.
  11. ↑ "Holbrook Hall". Council of Independent Colleges Historic Campus Architecture Project. Washington, DC: Council of Independent Colleges. 2006. Retrieved June 27, 2011.
  12. ↑ "Hallden Academic Support Center". Council of Independent Colleges Historic Campus Architecture Project. Washington, DC: Council of Independent Colleges. 2006. Retrieved June 27, 2011.
  13. ↑ "The Gallery at Mount Ida College: About". ArtInfo. 2008. Retrieved July 30, 2008.[ dead link ]
  14. ↑ "Affiliations - Mount Ida". mountidamustangs.com. Retrieved April 13, 2018.
  15. ↑ "Sports - Mount Ida". mountidamustangs.com. Retrieved April 13, 2018.
  16. ↑ "2002 Women's Volleyball Team". mountidamustangs.com. Retrieved April 13, 2018.
  17. ↑ "2007 Men's Lacrosse Team". mountidamustangs.com. Retrieved April 13, 2018.

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