This official decision made Bryn Mawr the fourth women's college in the United States to accept trans women. Transgender women and intersex individuals identifying as women may now apply for admission, while transgender men identifying as such at time of application may not. On February 9, 2015, the Board of Trustees announced approval of a working group recommendation to expand the undergraduate applicant pool. Other festivities held for the anniversary year included publication of a commemorative book on 125 years of student life, and, in partnership with the Philadelphia MuralвЂ…ArtsвЂ…Program, creation of a mural in West Philadelphia highlighting advances in women's education. In September 2010, Bryn Mawr hosted an international conference on issues of educational access, equity, and opportunity in secondary schools and universities in the United States and around the world. The college celebrated its 125th anniversary of 'bold vision, for women, for the world' during the 2010вЂ“2011 academic year. The school taught women workers political economy, science, and literature, as well as organizing many extracurricular activities. In 1931, Bryn Mawr began accepting men as graduate students, while remaining women-only at the undergraduate level.ДЇrom 1921 to 1938 the Bryn Mawr campus was home to the BrynвЂ…MawrвЂ…SummerвЂ…SchoolвЂ…forвЂ…WomenвЂ…WorkersвЂ…inвЂ…Industry, which was founded as part of the labor education movement and the women's labor movement. This department became the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research in 1970. In 1912, Bryn Mawr became the first college in the United States to offer doctorates in socialвЂ…work, through the Department of Social Economy and Social Research. Bryn Mawr was originally affiliated with the Quakers (Religious Society of Friends), but by 1893 had become non-denominational. The first class included 36 undergraduate women and eight graduate students. Bryn Mawr was one of the first institutions of higher education in the United States to offer graduate degrees, including doctorates, to women. The college was largely founded through the bequest of JosephвЂ…W.вЂ…Taylor, and its first president was JamesвЂ…Rhoads. Ellis's former home, also called Bryn Mawr, was a house near Dolgellau, Merioneth, Gwynedd, Wales. Bryn Mawr was the name of an area estate granted to RowlandвЂ…Ellis by WilliamвЂ…Penn in the 1680s. It is named after the town of BrynвЂ…Mawr, in which the campus is located, which had been renamed by a representative of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The phrase bryn mawr literally means 'large hill' in Welsh. Bryn Mawr College is a private women's liberal arts college founded in 1885.

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