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   When did Emma Willard start boarding school?

   • In 1814, just 26 years old and bearing a financial burden from her father's passing and outstanding debts, Emma Willard opened a new kind of boarding school for intellectually curious women out of her home in Middlebury.

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   What is Emma Willard School?

   • Emma Willard School is a historic, inclusive, and prestigious private boarding and day school for girls, grades nine to 12. Founded in 1814 by Emma Hart Willard, it was the first school of higher learning for young women in the United States and remains a trailblazer in girls’ education.

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   When was Emma Willard School renamed?

   • In 1895, the Seminary was renamed The Emma Willard School For Girls and in 1910 work began on a new, expanded campus atop Mount Ida complete with dormitories, a gymnasium and soaring stone towers. Atop "the heights of Ida" we remain, carrying on the enduring legacy and vitality of Emma Hart Willard's vision into this third century of operation.

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   What makes Emma Willard special?

   • A distinguishing feature of the school is the 12 full-time "Resident Faculty," whose primary role is to support the health, safety, and wellness of students. Emma Willard proudly celebrates its diverse community and storied history, welcoming applications from those well-served by our girls' school mission.

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   Why did Emma Willard write a plan for improving female education?

   • In 1819, based on her experience running her home-based seminary, Emma Willard wrote "A Plan for Improving Female Education," a proposal addressed to the New York State Legislature which argued a practically unheard of concept at that time: young women needed access to the same subjects of learning as young men.

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   Who was Emma Willard?

   • Emma Willard was many things: author, cartographer, educator, geographer, historian, inventor, and women's rights activist. Born in 1787, Madame Willard was far ahead of her time and refused to be limited to traditional gender roles of early American society.

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   Emma Willard is also the first boarding school to become a member of the international Round-Square program. In 2009, students and faculty traveled to Africa and to Casa de los Angeles in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico , to care for the children of poor working mothers.

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   Emma Willard School is a historic, inclusive, and prestigious private boarding and day school for girls, grades nine to 12. Founded in 1814 by Emma Hart Willard, it was the first school of higher learning for young women in the United States and remains a trailblazer in girls’ education.

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   Emma Hart Willard was a visionary educator and activist for the rights of women. Emma Willard today is her namesake school, thriving in her footsteps since 1814. Learn More

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   Jul 9, 2019 · At twenty-seven, Willard opened her first boarding school for girls, in Vermont, but soon grew dissatisfied with the low intellectual aims of those types of institutions. She envisioned something greater, more ambitious, more on par with the education boys were receiving to prepare them for college — an avenue wholly closed to women at the time.

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   In 1814, when Dr. Willard suffered financial losses, Emma opened a boarding school in her own home. She called the school the Middlebury Female Seminary, and here she intended to remedy some of the educational disadvantages of young women.

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   Sep 27, 2024 · The Emma Willard School, originally called Troy Female Seminary and often referred to simply as Emma, is an independent university-preparatory day and boarding school for young women, located in Troy, NY, USA