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Hollins University is a private university in Hollins, Virginia. Founded in 1842 as Valley Union Seminary in the historical settlement of Botetourt Springs, it is one of the oldest institutions of higher education for women in the United States. Hollins enrolls about 800 undergraduate and graduate students. As Virginia's first chartered women's college, undergraduate programs are female-only. Men are admitted to the graduate-level programs.

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  • Hollins University is a private university in Hollins, Virginia. Founded in 1842 as Valley Union Seminary in the historical settlement of Botetourt Springs, it is one of the oldest institutions of higher education for women in the United States. Hollins enrolls about 800 undergraduate and graduate students. As Virginia's first chartered women's college, undergraduate programs are female-only. Men are admitted to the graduate-level programs. Hollins is known for its undergraduate and graduate writing programs, which have produced Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Annie Dillard, former U.S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey, and Henry S. Taylor. Other prominent alumnae include pioneering sportswriter Mary Garber, 2006 Man Booker Prize winner Kiran Desai, UC-Berkeley's first tenured female physicist (and a principal contributor to theories for detecting the Higgs boson) Mary K. Gaillard, Goodnight Moon author Margaret Wise Brown, author Lee Smith, photographer Sally Mann, and Ellen Malcolm, founder of EMILY's List. (en)
  • L'université Hollins est une université privée située à (en), en Virginie. Fondée en 1842 sous le nom de Valley Union Seminary dans le village historique de Botetourt Springs, elle est l'un des plus anciens établissements d'enseignement supérieur pour femmes des États-Unis. Hollins accueille environ 800 étudiants de premier et deuxième cycles. En tant que premier collège féminin agréé de Virginie, les programmes de premier cycle sont réservés aux femmes. Les hommes sont admis aux programmes de deuxième et troisième cycles. Hollins est connu pour ses programmes d'écriture de premier et de second cycle, qui ont produit les auteurs Annie Dillard, lauréate du prix Pulitzer, Natasha Trethewey, ancienne poétesse lauréate des États-Unis, et (en). Parmi les autres éminentes anciennes étudiantes, on peut citer la pionnière de l'écriture sportive (en), Kiran Desai, lauréate du prix Booker 2006, Mary K. Gaillard, la première physicienne titulaire de l'UC-Berkeley (et l'une des principales contributrices aux théories sur la détection du boson de Higgs), Margaret Wise Brown, l'auteure de (en), Lee Smith, la photographe Sally Mann et Ellen Malcolm, fondatrice d'EMILY's List. (fr)
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  • Hollins University is a private university in Hollins, Virginia. Founded in 1842 as Valley Union Seminary in the historical settlement of Botetourt Springs, it is one of the oldest institutions of higher education for women in the United States. Hollins enrolls about 800 undergraduate and graduate students. As Virginia's first chartered women's college, undergraduate programs are female-only. Men are admitted to the graduate-level programs. (en)
  • L'université Hollins est une université privée située à (en), en Virginie. Fondée en 1842 sous le nom de Valley Union Seminary dans le village historique de Botetourt Springs, elle est l'un des plus anciens établissements d'enseignement supérieur pour femmes des États-Unis. Hollins accueille environ 800 étudiants de premier et deuxième cycles. En tant que premier collège féminin agréé de Virginie, les programmes de premier cycle sont réservés aux femmes. Les hommes sont admis aux programmes de deuxième et troisième cycles. (fr)
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