Wellesley College
Wellesley College | |
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motto | Non Ministrari sed Ministrare |
founding | 1870 |
Sponsorship | Private |
place | Wellesley , Massachusetts , USA |
President | Paula A. Johnson |
Students | 2474 |
Professors | 347 |
Foundation assets | $ 1.63 billion |
Website | www.wellesley.edu |
The Wellesley College is a US-based private college for women. Many famous people today studied there.
The college was founded in 1870 by Henry Fowle Durant and his wife Pauline. Today it is the aim of the college to “give an excellent education to women who will mean something in the world”.
The college, in Wellesley (about 27 km west of Boston ), offers a degree in the " Liberal Arts "; After four years of study, the female students receive a bachelor's degree. The college is one of the Seven Sisters ( seven sisters ; an amalgamation of American women's colleges) and has around 2,300 students. In the ranking of the US News & World Report magazine , the college regularly takes one of the top five positions among the "Liberal Arts" colleges in the United States and has always been rated as the best women's college in this category. The Wellesley Edition was published here from 1950 to 1973 .
The film Mona Lisa's Smile is set at Wellesley College and was partially shot there.
Personalities
Lecturers
- Edith Abbott , social scientist
- Julián Marías Aguilera , Spanish philosopher
- Emily Greene Balch , economist, 1946 Nobel Peace Prize
- Annie Jump Cannon , astronomer
- Jorge Guillén , Spanish poet
- Charlotte Houtermans , physical chemist
- Hedwig Kohn , physicist
- Mary Lefkowitz , classical philologist
- Tom teacher , mathematician
- Tony Martin , historian
- Helen Abbot Merrill , mathematician and university professor
- Vladimir Nabokov , Russian literary scholar
- Alice Freeman Palmer , story
- Adrian Piper , philosopher
- Euphemia R. Worthington , mathematician
- Richard Rorty , philosopher
- Helen Almira Shafer , mathematician and 3rd President
- Claude Vigée , French poet
- Alice Walker , writer
Graduates
- Madeleine Albright (1959), United States Secretary of State from 1997 to 2001
- Lisa Alther (1966), writer
- Barbara Babcock (1960), actress
- Blanche Baker (1978), actress
- Carolina Barco (1973), Colombian politician
- Muriel Gardiner Buttinger (1922), psychoanalyst and author
- Hillary Clinton (1969), United States Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013
- Harriet B. Creighton (1929), plant geneticist, co-discoverer of the crossing over in corn
- Jo Duffy , comic book writer and editor
- Nora Ephron (1962), screenwriter and film director
- Rosario Ferré (1960), Puerto Rican writer
- Colette Flesch (1960), Luxembourg politician and fencer
- Nancy Friday (1955), author
- Mary Graustein (1906), mathematician and university professor
- Marjorie Grene (1931), philosopher
- Carolyn Heilbrun (1947), writer
- Erna Schneider Hoover (1932), programmer and inventor of process prioritization in computerized telephone exchange
- Rosalind Krauss (1962), art critic and theorist
- Ali MacGraw (1960), actress
- Renate Mayntz (1950), German sociologist
- Song Meiling (1917), wife of Chiang Kai-shek
- Pamela Melroy (1983), astronaut
- Helen Abbot Merrill (1886), mathematician and university professor
- Cameron Russell , model
- Euphemia R. Worthington (1881–1969), mathematician
- Nayantara Sahgal (1947), Indian writer and journalist
- Diane Sawyer (1967), television journalist and presenter
- Gertrude Woodcock Seibert (1885), poet and Bible researcher
- Marjory Stoneman Douglas (1912), journalist, author, advocate for women's suffrage and conservationist
- Ernestine Wiedenbach (1923), nursing scientist
Web links
- Official website (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.wellesley.edu About> Facts. Accessed on August 6, 2015. - Which semester or year does this refer to? is not there
- ↑ US News & World Report: Colleges-Liberal Arts Ranking (English) Retrieved January 10, 2010
Coordinates: 42 ° 17 ′ 43 " N , 71 ° 18 ′ 24" W.