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Along with several of her classmates, Catherine came to Wesleyan and completed her degree in 1840. In 1840, Catherine Elizabeth Brewer Benson became the first woman to receive her degree from the first college in the world chartered to grant degrees to women.
The establishment of a women’s college in Middle Georgia was connected to the settlement of Georgia’s frontier. With a curriculum that equaled that of men’s colleges, Wesleyan College was an institution that preserved and replicated the social order of the early nineteenth century United States.
The timeline highlights early instances of women's education, such as the establishment of girls' schools and women's colleges, as well as legal reforms like compulsory education laws that have had a significant impact on women's access to education.
With the backing of Dissenters, Jews and Utilitarians alike, what would become University College, London, was founded early in 1826. The first stone of its imposing Bloomsbury building was laid in 1827, "with great solemnity and amid much popular sympathy."
For 30 years, from 1638 to 1668, Davenport worked principally to establish that college. (George Pierson ’26, ’33PhD, in his 1988 history of Yale’s founding, called it Davenport’s “phantom college.”) In the 1650s, favorable circumstances brought his dream close to realization.
The transformation of public education from a diverse and uncoordinated mixture of local experiments into a coherent system required organization. From 1850 onward, reformers spent much of their time developing ideas that would bring some uniformity to the emerging national system.
29 lis 2013 · The first woman to get her diploma was Catherine Elizabeth Benson Brewer, who received hers July 16th 1840 at the Georgia Female College, now known as Wesleyan College.
