Lasell University is a private university in Auburndale, Massachusetts.
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17 Facts About Lasell University
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Lasell University was founded in 1851 as the Auburndale Female Seminary by Williams College Professor of Chemistry, Edward Lasell University, after he took a sabbatical from his job in Williamstown to teach at the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley, where the experience inspired him to invest more personally in women's education.
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Lasell University 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 University 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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Lasell University offered two years of standard collegiate instruction as early as 1852 and is cited as having been the "first successful and persistent" junior college in the United States.
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In 1989, Lasell University adopted a charter to become a four-year institution, and began admitting male students in 1997.
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Lasell University 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 University has been accredited by the Commission on Institution of Higher Education of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges since 1932 and offers bachelor's degrees in the liberal arts and professional disciplines.
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Lasell University offers graduate degrees in education, communication, sport management, athletic training, criminal justice, human resources, marketing, management, and rehabilitation science.
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Lasell University is known for its emphasis and strength in its fashion program.
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Lasell Works is a professionally focused, cost savings undergraduate program created by Lasell University to help lower the burden of higher education tuition.
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In 2022, Lasell University acquired the Solstice Low-Residency MFA Program from Pine Manor College, where it had been hosted since 2006.
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Lasell University campus covers roughly 54 acres in the Newton, Massachusetts, village of Auburndale, adjacent to the Lasell University Neighborhood Historic District.
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Lasell University is a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division III athletics.
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The Lasell University 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 University's founding year, and the student yearbook is called the Lamp.
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