1900–2000 ===
Anna Jane McKeag was inaugurated as Wilson's first woman president in 1911; she was succeeded in 1915 by Ethelbert Dudley Warfield.
In 1967 the Wilson College sailing team won the first Intercollegiate Sailing Association national championship held in a women's event (dinghy).
Although it nearly closed its doors in 1979, a lawsuit organized by students, faculty, parents and an alumnae association succeeded in allowing the college to remain open. It is one of the few colleges to survive a scheduled closing. It subsequently adopted the Phoenix as its mascot, to symbolize the college's survival.
In 1982, Wilson began offering a continuing studies program (now known as the Adult Degree Program) to meet the needs of adults seeking post-secondary education. In 1996, the college was one of the first in the nation to offer on-campus residential housing for single mothers living with children.
=== 2000–present ===
The first men to attend Wilson entered at the end of World War II when an influx of male …
