Pine Manor College

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Pine Manor College (PMC) is a private, liberal arts college located in the Chestnut Hill area of Brookline, a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1911 and was historically a women-only college until 2014, when it admitted its first male students. It currently serves 450 students, 75% of whom live on the 60-acre (240,000 m²) campus.

PMC has been rated one of the nation's most racially diverse liberal arts college by U.S. News & World Report.

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History

The college was founded in 1911 as Pine Manor Junior College (PMJC) by Helen Temple Cooke, as part of the Dana Hall School in Wellesley, Massachusetts. A finishing school, it was a women-only institution at a time when even wealthy women were generally denied access to higher education.

Author and educator Ella Lyman Cabot taught at PMJC in its early days. Pioneering female architect Eleanor Manning O'Connor taught at PMJC in the 1930s; educator Mary Nourse taught history there in 1933-1934.

In 1965 the school moved to a 78-acre (320,000 m²) estate in Chestnut Hill. The estate, then known as Roughwood, was the residence of Ernest B. Dane, at that time president of the Brookline Savings and Trust. Many of the school's buildings are original to the estate and have been renovated to accommodate the college.

In 1977, the school expanded its mission to offer four-year bachelor's degrees, and became Pine Manor College.

In 1996, under new president Gloria Nemerowicz, the school changed its mission from educating women in the social elite to focusing on ethnic minorities and under-served communities. Although this shift brought the school praise and admiration, over the years enrollment declined, from around 1,200 to around 400 full-time students. The school's endowment similarly declined.

In 2011, the college failed to meet the financial benchmarks required by its accreditation agency. Fiscal year 2012 ended with a $1.7 million deficit. In May 2013, the college sold 5.2 acres to New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady for $4.5 million to build his family home. The school had earlier sold off another acre for a home site.

In September 2014, the college welcomed its first co-ed class, admitting men for the first time in its 103-year history.

President E. Joseph Lee stepped down in July 2015 amidst reports of the school's financial difficulties and declining enrollment.

In April, 2016, the New England Association of Schools and Colleges placed Pine Manor on probation following the possibility of losing its accreditation in November 2015.

In September 2017, the town of Brookline informed the college that they would be seeking to seize seven acres of the school's 52 acres under eminent domain for the building of an elementary school.

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Academics

Pine Manor offers nine majors: Biology, business administration, communications, English, history and culture, liberal studies, psychology, social and political systems, and visual arts. According to the Princeton Review, the most popular majors at PMC are business administration, communications, and psychology.

Upon graduation, students receive the Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Associate of Arts, or the Associate of Science.

Since 2006, PMC has also offered a four-semester Master of Fine Arts in creative writing known as the Solstice Low-Residency MFA Program. Solstice students may concentrate in fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, comics & graphic narratives, or writing for children and young adults.

The school also hosts a profitable English as a second or foreign language program run by multinational company, Kings Education, which can also serve as a university pathway program.

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Athletics

Pine Manor is a Division III member of the NCAA.

The College's athletic teams compete as NCAA independents. Most recently its women's teams competed as members of the Great South Athletic Conference (GSAC) before the conference disbanded in 2016. Before joining the GSAC in the spring of 2013, Pine Manor was a member of the Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) from 1995 to 2012.

PMC sponsors women's in the sports of basketball, cross country, softball, soccer, and volleyball. The college also previously fielded teams in women's tennis and lacrosse. The school started sponsoring men's programs in 2014 with the addition of men's basketball and soccer teams. In 2015, the school added men's cross country. The men's volleyball team started varsity competition in 2017. Pine Manor will add its fifth men's sport, and tenth sport overall, in 2017-18 with the addition of baseball.

The school sports mascot is the Gator.

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Admissions

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, and admission decisions are made throughout the year. In addition to academic achievement, the Admissions Committee looks for students possessing seriousness of purpose, leadership potential, motivation, breadth and depth of interests, social responsibility and other attributes.

According to a letter from the school, 85 percent of the current students are people of color and 84 percent of the student population are first-generation students.

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Notable people

Notable alumni

Wallis Annenberg (1959), socialite
Wendy Diamond (1992), television personality and founder and editor-in-chief of Animal Fair magazine
Meg Gallagher, actress
Busty Heart (1979), entertainer
Leslie Hindman, founder of Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Karyn Kupcinet, actress
Lori Lieberman, singer
Dorothy McGuire (1937), Academy Award-nominated actress
Heather Nauert (1992), Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs (Acting) [1] (2018-present); Spokesperson for the United States Department of State[2] (2017-present); Former Fox News Channel news anchor and co-host
Hillary B. Smith, Daytime Emmy-winning actress