Ohio Wesleyan Female College was a women's college, operating for two-and-a-half decades, until it merged into Ohio Wesleyan University in 1877. After starting as a Delaware, Ohio , academy for women in 1850, equivalent to a high school, it expanded its program in 1853 to begin service as a college. In 1877, the Ohio Wesleyan Female College merged with Ohio Wesleyan University . It had been a Coordinate College in relationship with that nearby men's school since 1853.
4-459: It is one of the oldest institutions of higher education for women in the United States , which provided general educational opportunities to women in an era when co-educational institutions of higher learning were only sporadically open to students of both sexes. In 1855, funds for the school's first and only institutional building were obtained from Mary Monnett , a student who attended
8-654: A university or college in Ohio is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Timeline of women%27s colleges in the United States The following is a timeline of women's colleges in the United States . These are institutions of higher education in the United States whose student population comprises exclusively, or almost exclusively, women . They are often liberal arts colleges . There are approximately 35 active women's colleges in
12-401: The U.S. as of 2021. The colleges are listed by the date when they opened to students. Many of the schools began as either school for girls, academies (which during the late 18th and early 19th centuries was the equivalent of secondary schools), or as a teaching seminary (which during the early 19th century were forms of secular higher education), rather than as a chartered college. During
16-579: The school. The trustees named the main building Monnett Hall in her honor. The main Wesleyan Female College Hall in Delaware, Ohio, was razed in the late 1970s and the site is now occupied by Monnett Gardens. Wesleyan's annual celebration of spring, Monnett Weekend, is held each April. 40°18′03″N 83°04′37″W / 40.300713°N 83.077075°W / 40.300713; -83.077075 This article about
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