17 Facts About Lasell College

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Lasell College University is a private university in Auburndale, Massachusetts.

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Lasell College offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional fields of study.

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Lasell College died of typhoid fever during the first semester, but his school proved highly successful as a first-rate educational institution and was renamed Lasell Female Seminary in his memory.

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Bragdon further expanded the faculty to make Lasell College renowned as a more academically rigorous institution, a prestigious school with a highly scientific approach to domestic work, art, and music.

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In 1989, Lasell College adopted a charter to become a four-year institution, and began admitting male students in 1997.

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Lasell College faced controversy in 2000 when seven former students sued and claimed that the nursing program, which had been discontinued in 1999, had been a sham.

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Lasell College explored merging with Mount Ida Lasell College, another liberal arts institution located in Newton, in February 2018.

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Lasell College offers graduate degrees in education, communication, sport management, athletic training, criminal justice, human resources, marketing, management, and rehabilitation science.

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Lasell College University is known for its emphasis and strength in its fashion program.

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10.

Lasell College Works is a professionally focused, cost savings undergraduate program created by Lasell College University to help lower the burden of higher education tuition.

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In 2022, Lasell acquired the Solstice Low-Residency MFA Program from Pine Manor College, where it had been hosted since 2006.

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Lasell College campus covers roughly 54 acres in the Newton, Massachusetts, village of Auburndale, adjacent to the Lasell College Neighborhood Historic District.

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Lasell College opened its Science and Technology Center in the fall of 2017.

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Lasell College's campus includes a day-care facility, Rockwell Preschool, and Lasell College Village, a senior living community focused on lifelong learning designated as an Age-Friendly University .

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Lasell College University is a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division III athletics.

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The Lasell Lasers compete as members of Eastern College Athletic Conference, the North Atlantic Conference, and the Great Northeast Athletic Conferences in baseball, basketball, volleyball, soccer, cross-country, field hockey, softball, lacrosse, and track and field as inter varsity sports.

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Student newspaper is called the 1851 Chronicle in reference to Lasell College's founding year, and the student yearbook is called the Lamp.

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