Westfield State University (also known as "Westfield" or "Westfield State") is a comprehensive, coeducational, four-year public university in Westfield, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1838 by noted educator and social reformer Horace Mann as the first public co-educational college in America without barrier to race, gender and economic class. Westfield State University is the most residential of public institutions of higher learning in Massachusetts.
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