What private, coeducational, liberal arts college in Poughkeepsie, New York, USA, was founded as a women's college in 1861, and became coeducational in 1969?
Vassar College Vassar College Vassar College ( ) is a private, coeducational, liberal arts college in the town of Poughkeepsie, New York. Founded in 1861 by Matthew Vassar, it was the first degree-granting institution of higher education for women in the United States. It became coeducational in 1969, and now has a gender ratio at the national average. The school is one of the historic Seven Sisters, the first elite female colleges in the U.S., and has a historic relationship with Yale University, which suggested a merger with the college before coeducation at both institutions. The college offers B.A. degrees in more
Elmira College York: McGraw Hill. LCCN 55-009100. Elmira College Elmira College is a coeducational private liberal arts college located in Elmira, in the U.S. state of New York's Southern Tier region. The college is noted as among the oldest colleges still in existence which (as a college for women) granted degrees to women that were the equivalent of those given to men (the first to do so was the Wesleyan College located in Macon, GA, in 1840). Elmira College became coeducational in all of its programs in 1969. The college, founded in 1855, has an enrollment of about 1,000 students. The school's