PMC hosted a reception for Boston-area women
to celebrate and spread the word about Pine Manor College

Ranked by U.S. News & World Report as the
Most Diverse Private, 4-year, Liberal Arts College
In the United States for 2004 and 2005

Ashby Campus Center
400 Heath Street, Chestnut Hill, MA

Special Feature

Exhibit of work by L’Merchie Frazier, catalogued, curated, and hung by PMC Students.
Meet the artist and meet the students.

L’Merchie Frazier is the Director of Education at the Museum of Afro-American History, Boston. Her artwork is represented in private collections as well as at the Smithsonian Institute, the American Craft Museum in New York and the University of Vermont.

Top: From a Birmingham Jail, silk, beads, and metallic threads, 45” x 37”, 1998.
Above (from left): Camai Schoenfeld ’05, Ardra Whitney ’06, Michelle Niedergeses ’05, L’Merchie Frazier, Sheena Williams ’05, Erin Mills ’05, Devon Govoni ’05—Art Exhibition Seminar students and featured artist.

Host Committee

RSVP

RSVP by February 15 to Barbara Kirby, Office of the President
617-731-7101 or kirbybar@pmc.edu

ABOUT PINE MANOR COLLEGE

Pine Manor College is both transformed for the 21st century and securely grounded by 94 years of commitment to educating women. Seven years ago the College undertook a process of renewal to assure it was meeting the needs of a new generation of young women. We adopted a mission of educating women for lives of inclusive leadership and social responsibility; identified a real and pressing need to provide affordable private liberal arts education; reduced tuition by 34%; redesigned our curriculum to reinforce learning experiences and relationships both in and out of the classroom; and developed a support system that allows students to receive the services they need to reach their full potential.

These changes have met with remarkable success, especially at the local level. Enrollment has increased by more than 70%; 30% of our students come from the Boston public school system; 55% are domestic women of color; and over 80% of our students receive significant financial aid in order to ensure their access. We are reaching young women who represent the first generation in their families to consider a college education. Importantly, the College now has nationally normed longitudinal data for student development from first year through senior year that demonstrates that PMC students arrive with less confidence in their social and intellectual abilities and less sense of their own ability to make positive change in the world but graduate with higher scores in these dimensions than women graduating from other institutions. A Pine Manor education is truly transformational.