College presidentsĬampus entrance File:Pembroke Hall at Bryn Mawr.jpgīryn Mawr's library holdings are housed in the Mariam Coffin Canaday Library (opened 1970), the Rhys Carpenter Library (opened 1997), and the Lois and Reginald Collier Science Library (opened 1993). Other festivities held for the anniversary year included publication of a commemorative book on 125 years of student life, and, in partnership with the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program Mural Arts Program, creation of a mural in West Philadelphia highlighting advances in women's education. In September 2010, Bryn Mawr hosted an international conference on issues of educational access, equity, and opportunity in secondary schools and universities in the United States and around the world. The College celebrated its 125th anniversary of "bold vision, for women, for the world" during the 2010–2011 academic year. Middle Eastern students who already attend these colleges tell of a transition that can be jarring." The Dean of Admissions of Bryn Mawr noted, "We still prepare a disproportionate number of women scientists We’re really about the empowerment of women and enabling women to get a top-notch education." The article also contrasted the difference between women's colleges in the Middle East and "the American colleges for all their white-glove history and academic prominence, are liberal strongholds where students fiercely debate political action, gender identity and issues like “ heteronormativity”, the marginalizing of standards that are other than heterosexual.
The article noted that in doing so, the schools promote the work of graduates of women's colleges such as Hillary Rodham Clinton, Emily Dickinson, Diane Sawyer, Katharine Hepburn (Bryn Mawr Class of 1928) and Madeleine Albright.
Ī June 3, 2008, article in The New York Times discussed the move by women's colleges in the United States to promote their schools in the Middle East. The school taught women workers political economy, science, and literature, as well as organizing many extracurricular activities. In 1931, Bryn Mawr began accepting men as graduate students, while remaining women-only at the undergraduate level.įrom 1921 to 1938 the Bryn Mawr campus was home to the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers, which was founded as part of the labor education movement and the women's labor movement. This department became the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research in 1970. In 1912, Bryn Mawr became the first college in the United States to offer doctorates in social work, through the Department of Social Economy and Social Research.
News & World Report ranked it 25th in Best Liberal Arts Colleges. Bryn Mawr was originally affiliated with the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), but by 1893 had become non-denominational. The first class included 36 undergraduate women and eight graduate students. Bryn Mawr was the first higher education institution to offer graduate degrees, including doctorates, to women. Taylor, and its first president was James Evans Rhoads. The College was largely founded through the bequest of Joseph W. Ellis's former home, also called Bryn Mawr, was a house near Dolgellau, Merionnydd (Merioneth), Gwynedd, Wales. Bryn Mawr was the name of an area estate granted to Rowland Ellis by William Penn in the 1680s. It is named after the town of Bryn Mawr, in which the campus is located, which had been named by a representative of the Pennsylvania Railroad who found the name in some old records. 2.5 Rhys Carpenter Art and Archaeology Libraryīryn Mawr College is a highly selective, private women's liberal arts college founded in 1885.2.3 The Marjorie Walter Goodhart Theater.The school has an enrollment of about 1300 undergraduate students and 450 graduate students. īryn Mawr is one of the Seven Sister colleges, and is part of the Tri-College Consortium along with two other colleges founded by Quakers- Swarthmore College and Haverford College. The phrase bryn mawr means "big hill" in Welsh. state of Pennsylvania, ten miles west of Philadelphia. Bryn Mawr College ( / ˌ b r ɪ n ˈ m ɑr / brin- MAR Welsh: Template:IPA-cy) is a women's liberal arts college in Bryn Mawr, a community in Lower Merion Township, in the U.S.
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