Pine Manor College was originally established in Wellesley in 1911 by the late Helen Temple Cooke, a pioneer dedicated to preparing women for successful lives. Today the College offers Bachelor's and Associate's degrees, as well as a Master of Fine Arts degree. Its evolution has been one of planned growth linked to the evolution of expanding opportunities for women.
In 1930, the College received a charter as an independent junior college and in 1959 gained the right to confer the degrees of Associate in Arts and Associate in Science. Pine Manor Junior College became a separate corporation in 1962 and in 1965 moved from the Wellesley campus to its beautiful 60-acre campus in Chestnut Hill, five miles west of Boston.
In 1977, the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education authorized the College to expand its mission, confer the Bachelor of Arts degree in the humanities and social sciences, and to change its name to Pine Manor College. In 1994, the charter was further expanded to include the Bachelor of Arts in Biology. Today, the College offers nine majors at the baccalaureate level, each of which is structured to include a core plus several optional concentrations. Minors in 30 fields make it possible for each student to design her/his program to meet her/his specific career goals. The Pine Manor College internship program, one of the first such programs in higher education, is distinguished by its academic components combining faculty sponsorship and concurrent seminars with both exploratory internship experiences and the senior internship in the major field, a requirement for all Pine Manor College students.
Through the leadership of dedicated presidents like Rosemary Ashby , Frederick Carlos Ferry, Jr, Alfred Tuxbury Hill and Marie Warren Potter , Pine Manor College has sought to maintain its finest traditions while continually reinterpreting its goals and revising its programs to meet the changing needs of students.Pine Manor College promotes an inclusive environment that educates and empowers a diverse student body to become accomplished, reflective, and confident leaders – one student at a time. Students from across the country and throughout the world become creative, collaborative, articulate problem solvers within the global community. The College creates life-long learners with specific skills, marketable tools, and the confidence and self-knowledge to employ them effectively.
Pine Manor is a private four-year liberal arts college situated on 50-plus wooded acres in the Chestnut Hill section of Brookline, Massachusetts, only a few miles outside of Boston. For over 100 years Pine Manor has provided a highly student-focused education and tailored mentoring grounded in the liberal arts tradition. It offers a Biology program, preparing graduates to secure careers in health care and biomedical research, as well as strong academic programs in Education, Community Health, Business and Management, Psychology, English, Communication, Sociology and Political Science, and the Visual Arts. The college also offers a Master’s degree via its highly regarded MFA in Creative Writing Program. Pine Manor College is Athletics NCAA Division III and offers 5 Women's Varsity sports: basketball, cross-country, soccer, softball and volleyball, and 3 NCAA Men's Varsity Sports: soccer, cross-country, and basketball.
PMC offers nine majors: Biology, business administration, communications, English, history and culture, liberal studies, psychology, social and political systems, and visual arts.
Upon graduation, students receive the Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Associate of Arts, or the Associate of Science.
Within each major, students can pick their own concentration from a list of more than 50 options.[5] For example, a student majoring in English can concentrate on creative writing or English education, while a student majoring in visual arts can concentrate on graphic design. According to the The Princeton Review, the most popular majors at Pine Manor are business administration, communications, and psychology.[citation needed]
PMC also offers a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing known as the Solstice Low-Residency MFA Program. Solstice students may concentrate in fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, or writing for children and young adults.
PMC is a Division III member of the NCAA.
Women's teams compete in the Great South Athletic Conference in the sports of basketball, cross country, softball, soccer, and volleyball. The college also previously fielded teams in women's tennis and lacrosse. Pine Manor was a member of the Great Northeast Athletic Conference from 1995-2012 before joining the GSAC in the spring of 2013.
The school started sponsoring men's programs in 2014 with the addition of men's basketball and soccer teams. Both teams participate as NCAA independents.
The school sports mascot is the Gator.
Notable alumni
- Wallis Annenberg (1959), socialite
- Meg Gallagher, actress
- Melissa D. Gordon (1989), actress, model and radio show hostess
- Busty Heart (1979), entertainer
- Leslie Hindman, founder of Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
- Karyn Kupcinet, actress
- Dorothy McGuire (1937), Academy Award-nominated actress
- Heather Nauert (1992), news anchor for Fox & Friends
- Emily Rafferty, former president, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Hillary B. Smith, Daytime Emmy-winning actress
- Susie Adams Smith, owner, Tennessee Titans NFL team
- Kartika Soekarno Seegers (1991), daughter of Sukarno, the former president of Indonesia and president of the Kartika Soekarno Foundation
- Pauline Tompkins (1938), first female president of Cedar Crest College
- Wendy Diamond (1992), television personality and founder and editor-in-chief of Animal Fair magazine
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
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