Politics & Government

Hillary Clinton: Bryn Mawr College 'Great Institution'

In her address at the school on Tuesday, the Secretary said modern women's rights advocates would be wise to 'take a page' from the college's rich history.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton singled out Bryn Mawr College for some especially generous praise during her keynote address to an international women's conference at the school on Tuesday.

Clinton, in her introductory remarks, said that it was an honor to have a symposium of the Women in Public Service Project—an organization she launched in 2011 while at the State Department that advocates gender parity—hosted by a "great institution that has taken women and women's education seriously for so long."

"Since 1885, Bryn Mawr has been a leader and was the first American institution of higer education to offer graduate degrees to women," Clinton said, adding that, in 1912, Bryn Mawr also became the first school to offer doctorates in social work to both women and men.

Clinton said that women's colleges like Bryn Mawr have long been a driving force behind social change.

"From Jane Adams to Francis Perkins, to so many other women, including one of my great predecessors as first lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, women in our country have been at the forefront of important social work in the last century," Clinton said.

"Bryn Mawr continues that legacy of scholarship and advocacy, and I think it's important that we take a page from that history."

To watch Clinton's full remarks, visit Bryn Mawr's video portal here.


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