Williams College is a private liberal arts college in Williamstown,Massachusetts. It was established as a men's college in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim Williams,a colonist from the Province of Massachusetts Bay who was killed in the French and Indian War in 1755. It is the second-oldest institution of higher education in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts after Harvard College.
Amherst College is a private liberal arts college in Amherst,Massachusetts. Founded in 1821 as an attempt to relocate Williams College by its then-president Zephaniah Swift Moore,Amherst is the third oldest institution of higher education in Massachusetts. The institution was named after the town,which in turn had been named after Jeffery,Lord Amherst,Commander-in-Chief of British forces of North America during the French and Indian War. Originally established as a men's college,Amherst became coeducational in 1975.
Whitman College is a private liberal arts college in Walla Walla,Washington. The school offers 53 majors and 33 minors in the liberal arts and sciences,and it has a student-to-faculty ratio of 9:1. Whitman was the first college in the Pacific Northwest to install a Phi Beta Kappa chapter,and the first in the U.S. to require comprehensive exams for graduation. Alumni have received 1 Nobel Prize in physics,1 Presidential Medal of Freedom,7 Rhodes Scholarships,1 Marshall Scholarship,3 Schwarzman Scholarships,50 Watson Fellowships,and 93 Fulbright Fellowships.
Emmanuel College is a private Roman Catholic college in Boston,Massachusetts. The college was founded by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur as the first women's Catholic college in New England in 1919. In 2001,the college officially became a coeducational institution. It is somewhat selective,admitting 74% of applicants. It is a member of the Colleges of the Fenway consortium. In addition to the Fenway campus,Emmanuel operates a living and learning campus in Roxbury,Massachusetts.
Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell is an astrophysicist from Northern Ireland who,as a postgraduate student,discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967. The discovery eventually earned the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1974;however,she was not one of the prize's recipients.
The College of Wooster is a private liberal arts college in Wooster,Ohio. Founded in 1866 by the Presbyterian Church as the University of Wooster,it has been officially non-sectarian since 1969 when ownership ties with the Presbyterian Church were ended. From its creation,the college has been a co-educational institution. It enrolls about 2,000 students and is a member of The Five Colleges of Ohio,Great Lakes Colleges Association,and the Association of Presbyterian Colleges and Universities.
Cabot House is one of twelve undergraduate residential Houses at Harvard University. Cabot House derives from the merger in 1970 of Radcliffe College's South and East House,which took the name South House,until the name was changed and the House reincorporated in 1984 to honor Harvard benefactors Thomas Cabot and Virginia Cabot. The house is composed of six buildings surrounding Radcliffe Quadrangle;in order of construction,they are Bertram Hall (1901),Eliot Hall (1906),Whitman Hall (1911),Barnard Hall (1912),Briggs Hall (1923),and Cabot Hall (1937). All six of these structures were originally women-only Radcliffe College dormitories until they were integrated in 1970. Along with Currier House and Pforzheimer House,Cabot is part of the Radcliffe Quad.
The Posse Foundation is a national nonprofit organization that partners with select colleges and universities in the United States to provide student scholarships and leadership training. Posse connects a network of more than 10,000 scholars and alumni.
Evelynn Maxine Hammonds is an American feminist and scholar. She is the Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and Professor of African and African-American Studies at Harvard University,and former Dean of Harvard College. The intersections of race,gender,science and medicine are prominent research topics across her published works. Hammonds received degrees in engineering and physics. Before getting her PhD in the History of Science at Harvard,she was a computer programmer. She began her teaching career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,later moving to Harvard. In 2008,Hammonds was appointed dean,the first African-American and the first woman to head the College. She returned to full-time teaching in 2013.
Susan Georgia Nugent is the president of Illinois Wesleyan University. She was president of Kenyon College in Gambier,Ohio from 2003 to 2013,and interim president of the College of Wooster in Wooster,Ohio for the 2015-16 academic year. She was succeeded at Kenyon by Sean M. Decatur,former dean of Arts and Sciences at Oberlin College,and at Wooster by Sarah Bolton,former dean of Williams College. In November of 2019,Nugent became the first woman to serve as President of Illinois Wesleyan University.
Deborah Bial is an education strategist,the founder and president of the Posse Foundation and a trustee of Brandeis University.
Susan Herbst is an American political scientist and academic administrator who served as the 15th president of the University of Connecticut. She was named president on December 20,2010,and took office on June 1,2011. She succeeded Michael J. Hogan and was the first woman to be selected as the University of Connecticut's president since the school's founding in 1881. In August of 2019,Herbst was succeeded by Thomas C. Katsouleas.
Lucy Wilson was an American physicist,known for her research on theories of vision,optics and X-ray spectroscopy. She was also the first Dean of Students at Wellesley College.
George Sumner Bridges is an American sociologist and academic administrator who served as the president of The Evergreen State College from October 2015 through Spring 2021.
Sarah Deer is a Native American lawyer and professor of Women,Gender,and Sexuality studies and Public Affairs and Administration at the University of Kansas. She was a 2014 MacArthur fellow and has been inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. She advocates on behalf of survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence in Native American communities. She has been credited for her "instrumental role" in the 2013 reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act,as well as for testimony which is credited with the 2010 passage of the Tribal Law and Order Act. Deer coauthored,with Bonnie Claremont,Amnesty International's 2007 report Maze of Injustice,documenting sexual assault against Native American women.
Michelle Ann Williams is a Jamaican-American epidemiologist,public health scientist,and educator who has served as the dean of the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health since 2016.
Shirley M. Collado is an American psychology professor and academic administrator. She was the 9th president of Ithaca College. Collado was the second woman to hold the post and the first person of color. She is the first Dominican American to be named president of a four-year college in the United States. Prior to joining Ithaca,Collado was professor of psychology,dean of the college and vice-president for student affairs at Middlebury College,then executive vice chancellor and chief operating officer at Rutgers University-Newark. She earned her doctorate at Duke University in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience.
Caelynn Marie Miller-Keyes is an American television personality,model,and beauty pageant titleholder. Miller-Keyes received national recognition after appearing as a contestant on season 23 of The Bachelor. Prior to her television career,Miller-Keyes had been crowned Miss Virginia Teen USA 2013 and Miss North Carolina USA 2018,additionally placing as the first runner-up at the Miss USA 2018 competition.
Pamela Estephania Harris is a Mexican-American mathematician,educator and advocate for immigrants. She is an associate professor at Williams College in Williamstown,Massachusetts and co-founder of the online platform Lathisms. She is also an editor of the e-mentoring blog of the American Mathematical Society (AMS).
Jean Brosius Walton was an American academic administrator and women's studies scholar. She spent the bulk of her career at Pomona College in Claremont,California.
