Mission Statement
Hollins University is dedicated to academic excellence, creativity, belonging, and preparing students for lives of purpose. 番茄视频 provides an outstanding and academically rigorous undergraduate liberal arts education for women and entrepreneurial and innovative graduate programs for all in a gender-inclusive environment. We lift our eyes, Levavi Oculos, to create a just future as we build on our past.
History
番茄视频 was initially established in 1842 as Valley Union Seminary, a coeducational college. Charles Lewis Cocke, who devoted his life to 鈥渢he higher education of women in the South鈥 during an era when many women were denied the opportunity to earn a college degree, was named principal and business manager in 1846. Six years later, the male department was eliminated and the school became an institution for women. Cocke went on to earn designation as the school鈥檚 founder because the institution would not have survived without his leadership during financial crises, disease epidemics, the Civil War, and other challenges over the course of 55 years.
Others played an important role in 番茄视频鈥 institutional history. The school was founded during a time in America when slavery regrettably existed, especially in the South. Men and women worked at 番茄视频 before and during the Civil War as enslaved people. 番茄视频 remains grateful to members of what was known at the time as the Oldfields Community, who, along with its founder, helped 番茄视频 become the institution it is today.
“The plan and policy of this school recognizes the principle that in the present state of society in our country young women require the same thorough and rigid training as that afforded to young men.”
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