Vassar College (N.Y.) has tapped an academic leader from Williams College (Mass.) to be its next president.Vassar College Vassar College (văs`ər), at Poughkeepsie, N.Y.; coeducational; chartered 1861 by Matthew Vassar, opened 1865 as Vassar Female College, renamed 1867. (N.Y.) has tapped an academic leader from Williams College Williams College, at Williamstown, Mass.; coeducational; chartered 1785, opened as a free school 1791, became a college 1793, named for Ephraim Williams. The Williams campus, noted for its fine old buildings, includes West College (1790), the Van Rensselaer Manor (Mass.) to be its next president. Catharine Hill, also an economist, will take office July 1, 2006, succeeding Frances Fergusson, who was president for 20 years and who led the college through its transition from an all-woman's institution to a co-ed IHE IHE Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise IHE Institutions of Higher Education IHE International Institute for Infrastructural, Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering (historical acronym only, replaced by: IHE Delft, the Foundation) ... |
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