Bay Path College
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Bay Path College is a private undergraduate women's college located in Longmeadow, Massachusetts
. The College offers online and on campus Graduate Programs for both men and women, and One-Day-A-Week Saturday College for adult women.
Bay Path College is a member of the Cooperating Colleges of Greater Springfield, an eight-college consortium along with American International College
, Elms College
, Holyoke Community College
, Springfield College
, Springfield Technical Community College
, Western New England University and Westfield State College
.
as a coeducational institute offering business teacher training, secretarial science, business administration and accounting degrees. In 1945, the College moved to Longmeadow and became one of three schools in the nation to revert to single-sex enrollment. Four years later, the institution received approval to be named Bay Path Junior College. In 1988 the Massachusetts Board of Regents of Higher Education authorized Bay Path Junior College to become a four-year degree-granting institution, and its name was changed officially to Bay Path College.
Bay Path's annual Women's Professional Development Conferences began in 1996. Since then, the Conference has featured speakers like former U.S. Labor and Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole
, PBS/ABC news correspondent Cokie Roberts
, NBC news chief and foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell
, former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
, and writer Maya Angelou
. Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
had been invited in 1988 to be a guest speaker at Springfield Symphony Hall.
One-Day-A-Week Saturday College was established at Longmeadow's main campus in 1999. The following year, the College was authorized to grant the degree of Master of Science in Communications and Information Management. Authorization to grant the same degree in Occupational Therapy was given in 2002. A campus was established in central Massachusetts in 2003.
Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn
of Thailand received an honorary degree from Bay Path in 2004.
The College was authorized to grant a master’s degree in business administration in Entrepreneurial Thinking and Innovative Practices in 2005, and a master of science in Nonprofit Management and Philanthropy in 2007. Also in 2007, both the Burlington campus and Bay Path Online were established.
, the 46 acres (186,155.6 m²) Main Campus is five minutes from Springfield, one of the state’s largest metropolitan areas and the business and cultural center of the region. It has over 1400 students enrolled in the Undergraduate College for Women, the One-Day-A-Week Saturday College for adult women, and the Graduate School for men and women. The Campus, with its long tree lined driveway; and with inviting landscape, has the look and feel of traditional New England college.
Summer Programs- Kitchen Sink: A Women Writers' Weekend, Film Matters, Animation Matters, Illustration Matters, GoGirls, Girls in Trees, It's MY Business, and such are also offered on the Main Campus.
Campus offers the One-Day-A-Week Saturday College for adult women and an MS in Education/Special Education for men and women. The campus is conveniently located on the Sturbridge
/Charlton
line in the JRD Building. Classes are held in the state-of-the-art classrooms in the JRD Building and at the newly renovated Tantasqua Regional High School
.
With over 30 traditional undergraduate majors and minors, and average class size of 17 students, Bay Path lays emphasis on leadership, innovation and communication needed to succeed in the workplace. The college features majors that are heavily focused on practical, hands-on application of course work, and students take the majority of their credits within their major. The College offers Certificates, Associate, Baccalaureate, Post Baccalaureate Certificates, and Graduate Programs. State-of-the-art resources including the Hatch Virtual Library with access to 6,500 full-text sources are available to students.
Top five majors offered at the College are Forensic Science, Psychology, Business, Criminal Justice and Occupational Therapy. Bay Path's Occupational Therapy Program has been granted accreditation by the Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education (ACOTE) of the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA).
in the following varsity sports: Soccer, Tennis, Volleyball
, Basketball, Cross Country, Softball and Field Hockey
.
Longmeadow, Massachusetts
As of the census of 2000, there were 15,633 people, 5,734 households, and 4,432 families residing in the town. The population density was . There were 5,879 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the town was 95.42% White, 0.69% African American, 0.05% Native American, 2.90%...
. The College offers online and on campus Graduate Programs for both men and women, and One-Day-A-Week Saturday College for adult women.
Bay Path College is a member of the Cooperating Colleges of Greater Springfield, an eight-college consortium along with American International College
American International College
American International College is a private, co-educational liberal-arts college located in the Mason Square neighborhood of Springfield, Massachusetts.-History:...
, Elms College
Elms College
The College of Our Lady of the Elms, often called Elms College, is a Catholic liberal arts college located in Chicopee, Massachusetts, near Springfield.- History :...
, Holyoke Community College
Holyoke Community College
Holyoke Community College is a state-funded public two-year community college located in Holyoke, Massachusetts. It offers associate degrees as well as a transfer program for students to earn credits for transfer to other colleges...
, Springfield College
Springfield College
Springfield College is a private, coeducational university located in the City of Springfield, Massachusetts. Springfield College is most famous as the site where the sport of basketball was invented...
, Springfield Technical Community College
Springfield Technical Community College
Springfield Technical Community College was built on the site of the Springfield Armory National Historic Site. The armory, established by George Washington was an important supplier of US armaments for over a century and a half before closing in 1968...
, Western New England University and Westfield State College
Westfield State College
Westfield State University is a comprehensive, coeducational, four-year public university in Westfield, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1838 by noted educator and social reformer Horace Mann as the first public co-educational college in America without barrier to race, gender and economic class...
.
History
Bay Path College was founded in 1897 in Springfield, MassachusettsSpringfield, Massachusetts
Springfield is the most populous city in Western New England, and the seat of Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States. Springfield sits on the eastern bank of the Connecticut River near its confluence with three rivers; the western Westfield River, the eastern Chicopee River, and the eastern...
as a coeducational institute offering business teacher training, secretarial science, business administration and accounting degrees. In 1945, the College moved to Longmeadow and became one of three schools in the nation to revert to single-sex enrollment. Four years later, the institution received approval to be named Bay Path Junior College. In 1988 the Massachusetts Board of Regents of Higher Education authorized Bay Path Junior College to become a four-year degree-granting institution, and its name was changed officially to Bay Path College.
Bay Path's annual Women's Professional Development Conferences began in 1996. Since then, the Conference has featured speakers like former U.S. Labor and Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole
Elizabeth Dole
Mary Elizabeth Alexander Hanford "Liddy" Dole is an American politician who served in both the Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush presidential administrations, as well as a United States Senator....
, PBS/ABC news correspondent Cokie Roberts
Cokie Roberts
Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Roberts , best known as Cokie Roberts, is an American Emmy Award-winning journalist and bestselling author. She is a contributing senior news analyst for National Public Radio as well as a regular roundtable analyst for the current This Week with Christiane...
, NBC news chief and foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell
Andrea Mitchell
Andrea Mitchell is an American television journalist, anchor, reporter, and commentator for NBC News based in Washington, D.C.. She is the NBC News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, and has recently reported on the 2008 Race for the White House for NBC News broadcasts, including NBC Nightly...
, former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
Madeleine Albright
Madeleine Korbelová Albright is the first woman to become a United States Secretary of State. She was appointed by U.S. President Bill Clinton on December 5, 1996, and was unanimously confirmed by a U.S. Senate vote of 99–0...
, and writer Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou is an American author and poet who has been called "America's most visible black female autobiographer" by scholar Joanne M. Braxton. She is best known for her series of six autobiographical volumes, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first and most highly...
. Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990...
had been invited in 1988 to be a guest speaker at Springfield Symphony Hall.
One-Day-A-Week Saturday College was established at Longmeadow's main campus in 1999. The following year, the College was authorized to grant the degree of Master of Science in Communications and Information Management. Authorization to grant the same degree in Occupational Therapy was given in 2002. A campus was established in central Massachusetts in 2003.
Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn
Maha Chakri Sirindhorn
Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn is the second daughter of King Bhumibol Adulyadej. Thais commonly refer to her as Phra Thep, meaning "princess angel." Because her title in Thai is the female equivalent of the title held by her brother, Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn, she is informally referred...
of Thailand received an honorary degree from Bay Path in 2004.
The College was authorized to grant a master’s degree in business administration in Entrepreneurial Thinking and Innovative Practices in 2005, and a master of science in Nonprofit Management and Philanthropy in 2007. Also in 2007, both the Burlington campus and Bay Path Online were established.
President
Dr. Carol A. Leary was inaugurated the fifth President of Bay Path College in 1995. Dr. Leary introduced The Bay Path College Education Stimulus Plan: a three-part plan to help students and families get the best value in higher education.The Main Campus
Located in the historic New England town of Longmeadow, MassachusettsLongmeadow, Massachusetts
As of the census of 2000, there were 15,633 people, 5,734 households, and 4,432 families residing in the town. The population density was . There were 5,879 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the town was 95.42% White, 0.69% African American, 0.05% Native American, 2.90%...
, the 46 acres (186,155.6 m²) Main Campus is five minutes from Springfield, one of the state’s largest metropolitan areas and the business and cultural center of the region. It has over 1400 students enrolled in the Undergraduate College for Women, the One-Day-A-Week Saturday College for adult women, and the Graduate School for men and women. The Campus, with its long tree lined driveway; and with inviting landscape, has the look and feel of traditional New England college.
Summer Programs- Kitchen Sink: A Women Writers' Weekend, Film Matters, Animation Matters, Illustration Matters, GoGirls, Girls in Trees, It's MY Business, and such are also offered on the Main Campus.
The Central Mass. Campus
The Central Mass.Massachusetts
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...
Campus offers the One-Day-A-Week Saturday College for adult women and an MS in Education/Special Education for men and women. The campus is conveniently located on the Sturbridge
Sturbridge, Massachusetts
Sturbridge is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. It is home to Old Sturbridge Village living history museum and other sites of historical interest such as Tantiusques.The population was 9,268 at the 2010 census...
/Charlton
Charlton, Massachusetts
Charlton is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 12,981 at the 2010 census.- History :Charlton was first settled in 1735. It was established as a District separated off from Oxford on January 10, 1755, and became a Town in 1775 by a law that made all...
line in the JRD Building. Classes are held in the state-of-the-art classrooms in the JRD Building and at the newly renovated Tantasqua Regional High School
Tantasqua Regional High School
Tantasqua Regional High School is a public high school in south-central Massachusetts, that serves the towns of Brimfield, Brookfield, Holland, Sturbridge and Wales.-Overview:...
.
Burlington Campus
Established in 2007 through a partnership with Burlington High School, the Burlington Campus offers the highly successful and accelerated One-Day-A-Week Saturday College for adult women, and the accelerated MS in Education/Special Education for men and women.Academics
Bay Path College is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, Inc., through its Commission on Institutions of Higher Education (NEASC).With over 30 traditional undergraduate majors and minors, and average class size of 17 students, Bay Path lays emphasis on leadership, innovation and communication needed to succeed in the workplace. The college features majors that are heavily focused on practical, hands-on application of course work, and students take the majority of their credits within their major. The College offers Certificates, Associate, Baccalaureate, Post Baccalaureate Certificates, and Graduate Programs. State-of-the-art resources including the Hatch Virtual Library with access to 6,500 full-text sources are available to students.
Top five majors offered at the College are Forensic Science, Psychology, Business, Criminal Justice and Occupational Therapy. Bay Path's Occupational Therapy Program has been granted accreditation by the Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education (ACOTE) of the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA).
Ranking
For the fifth year in a row, Bay Path College made the elite top tier for the Best Baccalaureate Colleges in the North in the 2009 edition of "America's Best Colleges" by U.S. News & World Report.Athletics
Bay Path is a competitive NCAA Division III school which competes in the New England Collegiate ConferenceNew England Collegiate Conference
The New England Collegiate Conference has been the name of two incarnations of collegiate athletic conferences.-Former Division II conference:...
in the following varsity sports: Soccer, Tennis, Volleyball
Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
, Basketball, Cross Country, Softball and Field Hockey
Field hockey
Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...
.