A wife and mother of five children, Sally Brown Van Schaick was the first woman to earn a bachelor's degree in 1958 through the new undergraduate degree program at Union's Evening Division. She had earned previous college credits at Duke University and Seaton University.
"I hope that when other women read about this, they will feel moved to further their education also. I am sure they will enjoy and profit from it as much as I have."
-Sally Brown Van Schaick; Concordiensis, 1958
Florence Folger Buckland graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After entering the Electrica Engineering master's program at Union College in 1922, she became the first woman to earn a graduate degree at Union College.
"When two more women applied in 1928, the administration asked the trustees to establish a policy, and the board decided that women could be admitted. In fact, however, the second woman graduated from the program a half-century later in 1977."
-Encyclopedia of Union History, page 349