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Vassar College ( ) is a private, coeducational, liberal arts college in the town of Poughkeepsie, New York, in the United States. Founded as a women's college in 1861 by Matthew Vassar, the school became a coeducational institution in 1969. The college offers B.A. degrees in more than 50 majors and features a flexible curriculum designed to promote a breadth of studies. The Vassar campus comprises over and more than 100 buildings, including two National Historic Landmarks and an additional National Historic Place. These buildings range in style from Collegiate Gothic to International, designed over the course of the college’s history by a range of prominent architects, including James Renwick Jr., Eero Saarinen, Marcel Breuer, and Cesar Pelli. Vassar's Thompson Memorial Library, designed by Francis R. Allen, is a Federal Depository Library. A designated arboretum, the campus features more than 200 species of trees, a native plant preserve, and a ecological preserve. A new science building is (as of June 2015) under construction, with plans to be completed in 2015. Vassar was listed in the 2016 annual ranking of ''U.S. News & World Report'' as "most selective" and was tied for the 12th best liberal arts college in the nation and 5th for "Best Value". The ''New York Times'' also ranked Vassar College 1st on its 2014 "most economically diverse top college" list. For the class of 2018 (enrolling fall 2014), the institution had an acceptance rate of 23.5%. The total number of students attending the college is around 2,400. The college offers many extracurricular organizations including student theater, a cappella groups, club sports, volunteer and service groups, and a circus troupe. Vassar College's varsity sports teams, known as the Brewers, play in the NCAA's Division III as members of the Liberty League. ==History== Vassar was founded as a women's school under the name Vassar Female College in 1861. Quickly thereafter its founder, Matthew Vassar, had the word ''Female'' cut from the name, prompting some residents of the town of Poughkeepsie, New York, in which the college's campus lay to quip that its founder believed it might one day admit male students. The college became coeducational in 1969. Vassar was the second of the Seven Sisters colleges, higher education schools that were formerly strictly for women, and historically sister institutions to the Ivy League. It was chartered by its namesake, brewer Matthew Vassar, in 1861 in the Hudson Valley, about 70 mi (115 km) north of New York City. The first person appointed to the Vassar faculty was the astronomer Maria Mitchell, in 1865. Vassar adopted coeducation in 1969. However, immediately following World War II, Vassar accepted a very small number of male students on the G.I. Bill. Because Vassar's charter prohibited male matriculants, the graduates were given diplomas via the University of the State of New York. These were reissued under the Vassar title after the school formally became co-educational. The formal decision to become co-ed came after its trustees declined an offer to merge with Yale University, its sibling institution, in the wave of mergers between the historically all-male colleges of the Ivy League and their Seven Sisters counterparts. Vassar's campus, also an arboretum, is marked by period and modern buildings. The renovated library has unusually large holdings for a college of its size. It includes special collections of Ellen Swallow Richards, Albert Einstein, Mary McCarthy, and Elizabeth Bishop. In its early years, Vassar was associated with the social elite of the Protestant establishment. E. Digby Baltzell writes that "upper-class WASP families educated their children at colleges such as Harvard, Princeton, Yale, and Vassar." Before becoming President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a Trustee. Roughly 2,450 students attend Vassar, and 98% live on campus.〔 About 60% come from public high schools, and 40% come from private schools (both independent and religious).〔 Vassar is currently 56% women and 44% men, at national average for national liberal arts colleges. Students are taught by more than 290 faculty members, virtually all holding the doctorate degree or its equivalent.〔 The student-faculty ratio is 8:1, average class size, 17.〔 In recent freshman classes, students of color constituted 32–38% of matriculants.〔 International students from over 60 countries make up 8-10% of the student body.〔 In May 2007, in keeping with its commitment to diverse and equitable education, Vassar returned to a need-blind admissions policy wherein students are admitted by their academic and personal qualities, without regard to financial status. Vassar president Frances D. Fergusson served for two decades. She retired in the spring of 2006, and was succeeded by Catharine Bond Hill, former provost at Williams College. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Vassar College」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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