Pine Manor College (PMC) was a private college in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1911 and was historically a women's college until 2014. It currently serves fewer than 400 students, many of whom live on the 40-acre campus. Originally the college was a post-graduate program of Dana Hall School, an all girl's preparatory high school, although later on it was an independent college serving primarily students of color. In May 2020, with the institution's longterm financial instability exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, Boston College announced that it would take over the college, in a graduated scheme that allowed outgoing Pine Manor students to study on their campus through the 2022 school year. History Finishing school The college was founded in 1911 as Pine Manor Junior College (PMJC) by Helen Temple Cooke, as part of the Dana Hall School in Wellesley, Massachusetts. It was a women-only institution at a time when women were generally denied access to higher education. Mary Almy was the architect. Author and educator Ella Lyman Cabot taught at PMJC in its early days. Pioneering female architect Eleanor Manning O'Connor taught at PMJC in the 1930s; educator Mary Nourse taught history there in 1933–1934. Mary Virginia Harris, a veteran of World War II who served in the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) program and who wrote its manual, was a dean there. In 1965 the school moved to a estate in the Chestnut Hill neighborhood of Brookline. The estate, then known as Roughwood, was the residence of Ernest B. Dane, at that time president of the Brookline Savings and Trust. Many of the school's buildings are original to the estate and have been renovated to accommodate the college. Transition to a four-year college In 1977, under the leadership of President Rosemary Ashby, the school expanded its mission to offer four-year bachelor's degrees, and became Pine Manor College. However, by the end of President Ashby's tenure in the mid-nineties, enrollment had declined by 50 percent to less than 300 full-time students, threatening the survival of the college. New mission In 1996, under new president Gloria Nemerowicz, the school changed its mission from educating women in the social elite to educating women of color from under-served communities. This was made possible, in large part, due to the generosity of wealthy older alumnae; in 1998, Pine Manor College cut its tuition by 34 percent after receiving a