Elinor Greenberg

Dr. Elinor Greenberg
Education Activist
1932
INDUCTED 2010

After coming to Colorado in 1954, Martin Luther King’s movement for civil rights and equal opportunity spurred Ellie Greenberg into action.

Four years at Mount Holyoke College for women propelled young Elinor Miller Greenberg into her life’s work of uplifting women through higher education. Her initiatives significantly advanced education, civil rights, and women’s rights in Colorado. She created learner-centered educational programs, and from 1971-79 headed the University Without Walls, a bachelor’s degree program that enabled women and minorities to attend college. She was the founding Director of PATHWAYS to the Future and the Mountain and Plains Partnership which expanded distance learning opportunities for adult students. Greenberg has authored, co-authored and edited nine books and more than 200 papers. She has sponsored dozens of informative “Feminist Luncheons” for more than ten years.

"Go where no one else will go, do what no one else will do.“ — Mary Lyon, founder in 1837 of Mount Holyoke College, Ellie Greenberg’s alma mater