Pine Manor College

Short description: Private college in Massachusetts

Pine Manor College

Latin: Pineae Manoris Collegii

Former names

| Pine Manor Junior College (1911–1977)
Motto| Aymez Loyaute
(Old French for "Love Loyalty")
Type| Private college
Established| 1911

Academic affiliations

| NAICU
Endowment| $9.5 Million[1]
President| Thomas M. O’Reilly
Students| 350
Undergraduates| 320[2]
Postgraduates| 30
Location|

Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts

U.S.

Campus| Suburban
|u}}rs|  Green & white
Nickname| Gators
Mascot| Gator
Website| www.pmc.edu

Pine Manor College (PMC) is a private college in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1911 and was historically a women's college until 2014. It currently serves fewer than 400 students, many of whom live on the 40-acre campus. Originally the college was a post-graduate program of Dana Hall School, an all girl's preparatory high school, although today it is an independent college serving primarily students of color.

In May 2020, with the institution's longterm financial instability exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, Boston College announced that it would take over the college, in a graduated scheme that will allow current Pine Manor students to study on their campus through the 2022 school year.[3]

## Contents

* 1 History
* 1.1 Finishing school
* 1.2 Transition to a four-year college
* 1.3 New mission
* 1.4 Takeover by Boston College
* 2 Academics
* 3 Athletics
* 4 Admissions
* 5 Pine Manor College Child Study Center
* 6 Notable people
* 6.1 Notable alumnae
* 6.2 Pine Manor College presidents
* 7 References
* 8 External links

## History

### Finishing school

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. It was a women-only institution at a time when women were generally denied access to higher education. Mary Almy was the architect.[4]

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;[5] educator Mary Nourse taught history there in 1933–1934.[6] Mary Virginia Harris, a veteran of World War II who served in the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) program and who wrote its manual, was a dean there.

In 1965 the school moved to a 78-acre (320,000 m2) estate in the Chestnut Hill neighborhood of Brookline. 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.

Pine Manor College campus

### Transition to a four-year college

In 1977, under the leadership of President Rosemary Ashby, the school expanded its mission to offer four-year bachelor's degrees, and became Pine Manor College. However, by the end of President Ashby's tenure in the mid-nineties, enrollment had declined by 50 percent to less than 300 full-time students, threatening the survival of the college.

### New mission

In 1996, under new president Gloria Nemerowicz, the school changed its mission from educating women in the social elite to educating women of color from under-served communities. This was made possible, in large part, due to the generosity of wealthy older alumnae; in 1998, Pine Manor College cut its tuition by 34 percent after receiving a bequest of $4 million from Frances Crandall Dyke '25.[7] Although this shift increased enrollment and brought the school praise and admiration, the school's financial endowment declined.[8][9][10]

In 2011, the college failed to meet the financial benchmarks required by its accreditation agency.[11] Fiscal year 2012 ended with a $1.7 million deficit.[12] 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.[13] The school had earlier sold off another acre for a home site.[14]

In September 2014, the college welcomed its first co-ed class, admitting men for the first time in its 103-year history.[15] The following year, President E. Joseph Lee stepped down amidst reports of the school's financial difficulties and declining enrollment.[12][16]

In April 2016, the New England Association of Schools and Colleges placed Pine Manor on probation, risking the loss of its accreditation.[17] President Tom O'Reilly took the helm in May 2016.[18] One year later, 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.[19]

In 2018, the New England Association of Schools and Colleges removed Pine Manor from probation, ensuring the college's continuous accreditation since it began offering degrees.[20] In May 2019, Pine Manor College was recognized by NASPA and the Center for First-Generation Student Success for its commitment to serving first-generation college students.[21]

### Takeover by Boston College

The COVID-19 pandemic cut off most of Pine Manor College's revenue, and in May 2020, Boston College announced it would merge Pine Manor College into Boston College, retaining the campus for some of its existing programs, including Learning to Learn, Options Through Education, and the Thea Bowman AHANA and Intercultural Center. The Pine Manor College campus will become the Pine Manor Institute for Student Success with a $50 million endowment from Boston College. Current Pine Manor College students will have the option to stay for two years and then transfer to Boston College's Woods College for Advancing Studies, while some Pine Manor College faculty and staff will join Boston College with the rest receiving severance and outplacement assistance.[22]

## Academics

Pine Manor College offers nine undergraduate majors. Upon graduation, students receive the Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Associate of Arts, or the Associate of Science.

From 2006 to 2021, PMC offered a four-semester Master of Fine Arts in creative writing known as the Solstice Low-Residency MFA Program. The Solstice program moved to nearby Lasell University in 2022.[23]

The college hosts two English as a second or foreign language programs, which also serve as university pathways programs.[24][25]

## Athletics

Pine Manor athletic teams were the Gators. The college was a member of the Division III level of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), primarily competing in the Coast to Coast Athletic Conference (C2C), to only spend its only season during the 2020–21 school year, which was their final season of the college's athletic program.

The college's athletic teams had previously competed as NCAA Independents and as members of the now-defunct American Collegiate Athletic Association from 2017–18 to 2019–20. Its women's teams competed as members of the Great South Athletic Conference (GSAC) from 2012–13 to 2015–16 (the final season of the conference before disbanding). Pine Manor also competed as a member of the Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) from 1995–96 to 2011–12.

PMC offered women's athletics 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 offering men's athletics 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 added its fifth men's sport, and tenth sport overall, in 2017–18 with the addition of baseball.[26] In 2018, after receiving conference titles in both men's soccer and basketball, the American Collegiate Athletic Association awarded Pine Manor College the inaugural ACAA Men's President's Cup.

The school sports mascot is the Gator.

## 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.

85 percent of the current students are people of color and 84 percent of the student population are first-generation students.[19]

## Pine Manor College Child Study Center

The Pine Manor College Child Study Center was founded in 1974. Owned by Pine Manor College, this private, non-profit preschool center is licensed by the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care (EEC) and serves 40 children per day between the ages of 2 years 9 months through age 6. The school was initially founded to broaden the learning experiences of the Pine Manor College students who were studying Early Childhood Education and Child Development, and to provide a quality preschool for families in the community. The Child Study Center continues to serve as a Lab School for college students providing students experiential learning and training, while offering part- and full-day quality preschool experience to young children year-round.[27]

## Notable people

### Notable alumnae

* Wallis Annenberg, heiress[28]
* Josephine Abercrombie, businesswoman
* Doran Clark, actress
* Wendy Diamond, founder of Animal Fair magazine
* Meg Gallagher, actress
* Busty Heart, entertainer
* Leslie Hindman, auctioneer
* Karyn Kupcinet, actress
* Lori Lieberman, singer-songwriter ("Killing Me Softly with His Song")
* Dorothy McGuire, Academy Award-nominated actress
* Heather Nauert, journalist and former public official
* Mary Curtiss Ratcliff, visual artist
* Hillary B. Smith, Daytime Emmy-winning actress
* Pauline Tompkins, president of Cedar Crest College
* Constance H. Williams, politician
* Lydia Woodward, television writer and co-producer of ER

### Pine Manor College presidents

* 1911–1916: Helen Temple Cooke
* 1916–1928: Adele Lathrop
* 1928–1929: Constance Warren
* 1929-1930: Helen Temple Cooke (interim)
* 1930–1952: Marie Warren Potter[29]
* 1952–1956: Alfred Tuxbury Hill[29]
* 1956–1974: Frederick Carlos Ferry Jr.
* 1974–1996: Dr. Rosemary Ashby[30]
* 1996–2011: Gloria Nemerowicz[10]
* 2011–2012: Alane K. Shanks[31]
* 2012–2013: Ellen Hurwitz (interim)[32]
* 2013–2015: Dr. E. Joseph Lee[30]
* 2015–2016: Dr. Rosemary Ashby (interim)[30]
* 2016–present: Thomas M. O’Reilly[11]

## References

1. ↑ "Financial Information," Pine Manor College website. Accessed Nov. 19, 2015.
2. ↑ "Enrollment". Pine Manor College. http://www.pmc.edu/enrollment.
3. ↑ Krantz, Laura (14 May 2020). "Boston College will take over Pine Manor". The Boston Globe. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/05/13/metro/boston-college-will-take-over-pine-manor/.
4. ↑ "Guide to the Records of Howe, Manning & Almy, Inc. and the Papers of Lois Lilley Howe, Eleanor Manning O'Connor, and Mary Almy MC.0009". https://libraries.mit.edu/archives/research/collections/collections-mc/mc9.html.
5. ↑ MIT (1906). Senior Portfolio, p. 30. Sparrell Print, Boston, p. 7.
6. ↑ Who Knows, and What, Among Authorities, Experts, and the Specially Informed. 1949. p. 473. https://books.google.com/books?id=MYFq8t3r_UEC.
7. ↑ "Once exclusive college redefines mission" (in en). http://archive.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2006/09/17/once_exclusive_college_redefines_mission/.
8. ↑ Carmichael, Mary. "Educating the poor comes at a price for Pine Manor; Newton college looks to retool its finances," The Boston Globe (December 23, 2011).
9. ↑ Zezima, Kate (30 May 2010). "Chestnut Hill Journal: Women's Colleges Shift Gaze to Less Well-Off". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/education/30pinemanor.html.
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Khadaroo, Stacy Teicher. "Difference Maker: How a college president toppled the ivory tower: Pine Manor College was once a haven for privileged white women. Now it's seeing a surge in low-income and minority students," Christian Science Monitor (Dec. 13, 2010).
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Krantz, Laura (May 25, 2016). "Pine Manor College placed on probation by accrediting agency". The Boston Globe. https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/05/25/pine-manor-college-placed-probation-accrediting-agency/P4mLGVDRErAouWS10FXFvK/story.html.
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Moore, Mary (Jul 15, 2015). "Pine Manor College president is out". Boston Business Journal. https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2015/07/15/pine-manor-college-president-is-out.html?ana=twt.
13. ↑ Carapezza, Kirk (May 13, 2015). "Tom Brady once saved this tiny college. Can it still survive?". PRI. https://www.pri.org/stories/2015-05-13/tom-brady-once-saved-tiny-college-can-it-still-survive.
14. ↑ Restuccia, Paul (December 21, 2013). "Patriots fan's paradise". http://www.bostonherald.com/business/real_estate/2013/12/patriots_fan_s_paradise.
15. ↑ "Pine Manor College Welcomed First Co-Ed Class". Pine Manor College. October 9, 2014. http://www.pmc.edu/pine-manor-college-welcomed-first-co-ed-class.
16. ↑ Shannon McMahon. "Tom Brady's Hail Mary cash hasn’t saved this tiny college", Boston.com (July 16, 2015).
17. ↑ "PUBLIC STATEMENT ON PINE MANOR COLLEGE". New England Association of Schools and Colleges. May 25, 2016. https://cihe.neasc.org/sites/cihe.neasc.org/files/downloads/Public_Statement/PineManorCollegeProbationStatement_May2016.pdf.
18. ↑ "Pine Manor College Names New President". http://www.pmc.edu/pine-manor-college-names-new-president.
19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 Krantz, Laura (2017-09-28). "Brookline considers seizing college land by eminent domain". The Boston Globe. https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/09/28/brookline-considers-seizing-college-land/Sw8KGxdpByAkKOr1M5UC6H/story.html.
20. ↑ Krantz, Laura (12 March 2018). "Pine Manor College removed from academic probation" (in en-US). The Boston Globe. https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/03/12/pine-manor-college-removed-from-academic-probation/dBlGmKoiDzIPeeIjki59vJ/story.html.
21. ↑ "Pine Manor College Recognized for Commitment to First-Gen Student Success" (in en). 2019-05-04. https://diverseeducation.com/article/144984/.
22. ↑ Whitford, Emma. Pine Manor Merges Amid Pandemic: Pine Manor College has struggled financially for years, but pandemic-related challenges helped push it into a merger deal with nearby Boston College," Inside Higher Ed (May 18, 2020).
23. ↑ Petler, Tamar. "News: The Solstice MFA Creative Writing Program Transitions to Lasell University," Pine Manor College website (Mar. 16, 2022).
24. ↑ "Kings Pathways at Pine Manor College". Pine Manor College. http://www.pmc.edu/kings-pathways.
25. ↑ Swidey, Neil (May 18, 2016). "The college debt crisis is even worse than you think". The Boston Globe. https://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2016/05/18/hopes-dreams-debt/fR60cKakwUlGok0jTlONTN/story.html.
26. ↑ "Pine Manor Tabs Anthony Leonelli as Inaugural Baseball Coach". Pine Manor College. Sep 28, 2016. http://www.pmcathletics.com/sports/bsb/2016-17/Releases/New_Baseball_Coach.
27. ↑ "Pine Manor College Child Study Center". http://www.pmc.edu/csc.
28. ↑ "The Lewiston Journal - Google News Archive Search". https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1899&dat=19860520&id=DY5GAAAAIBAJ&sjid=VvMMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3551,2832754.
29. ↑ 29.0 29.1 "Dr. A. T. Hill Heads Pine Manor," New York Times (January 6, 1952).
30. ↑ 30.0 30.1 30.2 "Rosemary Ashby returns to Pine Manor College," Brookline TAB (July 22, 2015).
31. ↑ Carmichael, Mary. Chris Diver baseball coach "Pine Manor searches for new president," '"The Boston Globe (MAY 19, 2013).
32. ↑ Mattero, Sarah N. "Pine Manor College names Ellen Hurwitz as interim president," The Boston Globe (Nov. 14, 2012).

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