Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Women's colleges once numbered in the hundreds, but now they're a rarity in higher education. The Women's College Coalition ...

As a young teenager, Carrie Lee Lancaster ’19 was busy playing basketball at her small-town South Carolina high school. What she wasn’t doing was thinking about a women’s college as an eventual goal.

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Over the past five decades, the number of women’s colleges in the United States has dropped drastically—from 200 schools in the 1960s to just 37 in the Women’s College Coalition this year. During that ...

ATLANTA, Jan. 13, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Spelman College is proud to announce it has been ranked No. 1 among America’s Best Colleges for Women in 2026 by Newsweek. The new ranking incorporates the ...

One day, my daughter showed me a piece of art she had made. It looked like a fancy ransom note, with cutout letters and pictures from magazines. It was a poignant get well card for her ailing ...

The first of the Seven Sisters colleges, Mount Holyoke in Massachusetts turns 170 today. Women's schools were the only option for girls who wanted a higher education, but now that women have largely ...

Kimberly Wright Cassidy is President of Bryn Mawr College, a women's college, and is affiliated with the Women's College Coalition. Jacquelyn Litt receives funding from the Social Science Research ...

Women’s colleges once numbered in the hundreds, but now they’re a rarity in higher education. The Women’s College Coalition website notes that there were more than 200 such schools in the U.S. during ...

STEP by step with the recognition of the place of woman in the community has grown the need for educating her for that place. During the last two generations her right to the opportunities of higher ...

As the inaugural dean for student academic success, Andrick discusses his role, how he works across two institutions and the need for student supports in and outside of the classroom. Mississippi ...