Lesley College

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Lesley College is the undergraduate section, and founding institution of, Lesley University.

The college was founded in 1909 by Edith Lesley as The Lesley School, a women's college which focused on early childhood education as a part of the international kindergarten movement established by Friedrich Wilhelm August Fröbel. Both the college and the university are located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Lesley School became Lesley College in 1944, received authority to award advanced degrees in 1953, and achieved regional accreditation in 1954. In 1998 Lesley College and The Art Institute of Boston merged. That merger, and the addition of additional graduate and undergraduate institutes and colleges, resulted in the emergence of Lesley University in 2001.

In 2005 Lesley College became co-educational.^[1]

[edit] References

^ "Lesley College Opens Its Doors to Men"]. June 25, 2004. http://chronicle.com/weekly/v50/i42/42a03401.htm. Retrieved October 21, 2009.

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v t e American women's colleges that became coeducational

Became coeducational	Adelphi University • Albertus Magnus College • Andrew College • Anna Maria College • Barber-Scotia College • Beaver College • Bennington College • Carlow University • Cazenovia College • Chestnut Hill College • Chowan College • Columbia College • Connecticut College • Drexel University College of Medicine • Elms College • Elmira College • Emmanuel College • Georgia College & State University • Goucher College • Greensboro College • Hood College • Hunter College • Huston-Tillotson University • Immaculata University • James Madison University • Keuka College • LaGrange College • Lake Erie College • Lasell College • Lesley College • Longwood University • MacMurray College • Mississippi University for Women • Marymount Manhattan College • University of Montevallo • Moravian College • Notre Dame College • Ohio Dominican University • Queens University of Charlotte • Radford University • Randolph College • Regis College • Rivier College • Sarah Lawrence College • Salve Regina University • Seton Hill University • Shorter University • Silver Lake College • Skidmore College • Stevenson University • Texas Woman's University • Trocaire College • University of Mary Hardin-Baylor • University of Mary Washington • University of North Carolina at Greensboro • Vassar College • Virginia Union University • Viterbo University • Washington College of Law • Webster University • Wells College • Wheaton College • Winthrop University

Coordinate colleges	Douglass (merged with Rutgers University) • Evelyn College for Women (with Princeton University; closed) • Georgia State College for Women (with Georgia School of Technology to form Georgia College & State University) • H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College (merged with Tulane University) • Margaret Morrison Carnegie College (merged with Carnegie Mellon University) • Pembroke (merged with Brown University) • Radcliffe College (merged with Harvard University) • University of Mary Washington (with University of Virginia)