Seven Sisters colleges

(noun)

A group of the most famous women's colleges in the United States, including Mount Holyoke, Vassar, Wellesley, Smith, Radcliffe, Bryn Mawr, and Barnard Colleges.

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Examples of Seven Sisters colleges in the following topics:

  • Education and Unequal Treatment in the Classroom

    • By the mid-1800s, several women's colleges had been established, and many were coupled with men's universities as coordinate colleges.
    • In the 1970s and 1980s, some of these coordinate colleges were absorbed into the larger university to create coeducational (coed) universities with both men and women.
    • The most famous women's colleges in the United States were known as the Seven Sisters colleges and included Mount Holyoke College, Vassar College, Wellesley College, Smith College, Radcliffe College, Bryn Mawr College, and Barnard College.
    • Today, five still operate as women's-only colleges, Radcliffe no longer accepts students, and Vassar is coeducational.
    • As has long been acknowledged, females now earn higher grades than males, and since the early 1990s, more women than men have been enrolled in college.

  • Women and Education

    • Mixed-gender classes were admitted to the preparatory department at Oberlin in 1833 and to the college department in 1837.
    • Beginning in 1844, Hillsdale College became the second college to admit mixed-gender classes to four-year degree programs.
    • Around the same time, women-only colleges were also appearing.
    • Notable examples include the prestigious Seven Sisters; within this association of colleges, Vassar College is now coeducational and Radcliffe College has merged with Harvard University.
    • Other notable women's colleges that have become coeducational include Wheaton College in Massachusetts; Ohio Wesleyan Female College in Ohio; Skidmore College, Wells College, and Sarah Lawrence College in New York state; Goucher College in Maryland; and Connecticut College.

  • Eukaryotic Chromosomal Structure and Compaction

    • A DNA molecule in this form is about seven times shorter than the double helix without the histones.
    • After replication, the chromosomes are composed of two linked sister chromatids.
    • The connection between the sister chromatids is closest in a region called the centromere.
    • The conjoined sister chromatids, with a diameter of about 1 µm, are visible under a light microscope.

  • School of Education Rankings

    • A good place to begin your search is to look at college rankings.
    • The first "America's Best Colleges" report was published in 1983.
    • Schools of education are rated and ranked based on seven criteria, which include peer assessment, student retention, faculty resources, student selectivity, financial resources, graduation performance, and alumni giving.
    • The first was Reed College which stopped submitting the survey in 1995.
    • John's College during the late 1990s.

  • The Electoral College

    • The Electoral College is the 538 person body that elects the President and the Vice President of the United States.
    • The seven smallest states by population in the Electoral College (Alaska, Delaware, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, and Wyoming) have three electors.
    • Only Maine and Nebraska award Electoral College votes on a proportional basis.
    • Many proponents of the Electoral College see its negative effect on third parties as a good thing.
    • This shows the influence of the Electoral College on the prominence of swing states, those with small populations but large Electoral College votes.

  • Introduction to hypothesis testing

    • A recent study found that college students average about 7 hours of sleep per night (http://theloquitur.com/?
    • However, researchers at a rural college are interested in showing that their students sleep longer than seven hours on average.

  • The Twenty-Seven Amendments of the U.S. Constitution

    • The twenty-seven amendments serve two purposes: to protect the liberties of the people and to change original codes from the constitution.
    • The 23rd modifies the Electoral College.

  • Charles Finney and the Burned-Over District

    • Finney was an innovative revivalist, an opponent of Old School Presbyterian theology, an advocate of Christian Perfectionism, a pioneer in social reforms in favor of women and African Americans, a religious writer, and president at Oberlin College.
    • The Fox sisters conducted some of the first table-rapping seances and helped inspire Spiritualism.

  • The Importance of Gathering Information

    • According to a recent study from the Kaiser Family Foundation, teenagers spend over seven and a half hours a day using electronic devices—mainly smartphones, computers, and TVs.
    • Small businesses in our sister city, Springfield, reported losses comparable to ours after the financial crisis.
    • According to a recent study from the Kaiser Family Foundation, teenagers spend over seven and a half hours a day using electronic devices—mainly smartphones, computers, and TVs.

  • The Brief Reign of Peter III

    • Young Peter of Holstein-Gottorp lost his mother, Elizabeth's sister Anna, at three months old and his father at the age of eleven.
    • After Peter succeeded to the Russian throne, the pro-Prussian emperor withdrew Russian forces from the Seven Years' War and concluded a peace treaty with Prussia - an event known as the Second Miracle of the House of Brandenburg (sometimes as simply the Miracle of the House of Brandenburg, which also refers to another surprising development during the Seven Years' War, when Russia and Austria failed to follow up their victory over Frederick the Great at the Battle of Kunersdorf in 1759).