Rhoads Rockefeller is named after its donor, John D. Rhoads North and South was named after the college's first president, James E. Each is named after a county town in Wales: Brecon, Denbigh (1891), Merion (1885), and Radnor (1887), and Pembroke East and West (1892).
Louis and Princeton University) and are known for their Collegiate Gothic architecture, modeled after Cambridge University. Many of the older residence halls were designed by Cope & Stewardson (same architects who designed a large part of Washington University in St.
The majority of Bryn Mawr students live on campus in residence halls. Bryn Mawr has frequently been listed as one of the most beautiful college campuses in the United States. The campus was designed in part by noted landscape designers Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted, and has subsequently been designated an arboretum (the Bryn Mawr Campus Arboretum). President Kim Cassidy accepted the areas that need action as demanded by the Collective and committed herself and the institution to fight for anti-racism. On November 19, 2020, a 16-day student strike for social justice and against racism organized by the Bryn Mawr Strike Collective came to an end. This official decision made Bryn Mawr the fourth women's college in the United States to accept trans women. Transgender women and intersex individuals identifying as women may now apply for admission, while transgender men identifying as such at time of application may not. On February 9, 2015, the Board of Trustees announced approval of a working group recommendation to expand the undergraduate applicant pool. 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, 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. 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 in Industry, 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. Bryn Mawr was originally affiliated with the Quakers (Religious Society of Friends), but by 1893 had become non-denominational. The first class included 36 undergraduate women and eight graduate students. Bryn Mawr was one of the first institutions of higher education in the United States to offer graduate degrees, including doctorates, to women. Taylor, and its first president was James 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, 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 renamed by a representative of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The phrase bryn mawr literally means 'large hill' in Welsh. 2.7 Rhys Carpenter Art and Archaeology Libraryīryn Mawr College is a private women's liberal arts college founded in 1885.It was the first women's college to offer graduate education through a PhD. The college has an enrollment of about 1,350 undergraduate students and 450 graduate students.
Founded as a Quaker institution in 1885, Bryn Mawr is one of the Seven Sister colleges, a group of elite, historically women's colleges in the United States, and the Tri-College Consortium along with Haverford College and Swarthmore College. Late Gothic Revival, Gothic, Collegiate Gothicīryn Mawr College ( / ˌ b r ɪ n ˈ m ɑː r/ brin- MAR Welsh: ) is a women's liberal arts college in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.