 When the School of Fine Arts opened to students in 1869, it was the first of its kind affiliated with a tertiary institution in America.A three-year course in drawing, painting, sculpture, and art history was inaugurated.Two women—Alice and Susan Silliman, both daughters of Benjamin Silliman, Jr.—enrolled in the first cohort of three students, and the School of Fine Arts became the first of Yale's schools to allow co-educational instruction.