The Honor Roll: Bryn Mawr College; Four New Centers Designed to Promote Change

The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education | February 25, 2002| | Copyright

In addition to being a renowned college for women, and for having two excellent coeducational graduate schools -- the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research -- one might say that Bryn Mawr has become even more "centered" of late. This is due to the efforts of Dr. Nancy J. Vickers, its seventh and current president, an acclaimed French and Italian Renaissance scholar who has examined the transformation of the lyric from the sonnets of Petrarch to the music videos of today.

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