U.S. Census Bureau Daily Feature for March 8

WASHINGTON, March 8, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau:

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THURSDAY, MARCH 8: FIRST STATE COLLEGE FOR WOMEN

Profile America — Thursday, March 8th, noting Women's History Month. The first state college for women was created this month in 1884 in Mississippi. Known as the Mississippi Industrial Institute and College, classes opened in the fall of the next year on the campus of a former college in Columbus.  Now called the Mississippi University for Women, it has been ranked as one of the top schools in the annual list of "America's Best Colleges."  Now coed, the school has many of the buildings on its imposing campus on the national register of historic places.  Across the U.S. today, women students outnumber males on college campuses by 2.5 million.  Profile America is produced by the U.S. Census Bureau: Measuring America—People, Places, and Our Economy.

Profile America is produced by the Public Information Office of the U.S. Census Bureau. These daily features are available as produced segments, ready to air, on a monthly CD or on the Internet at http://www.census.gov (look for "Multimedia Gallery" by the "Newsroom" button). 

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