In this VT Stories interview from 2018, Manisha Sharma interviews the former Director of University Publications Clara Cox in the Holtzman Alumni Center. In this oral history Cox talks about her rise through the ranks of university relations, her…
You don’t have to graduate from Virginia Tech to be a Hokie. After moving to Blacksburg as a faculty spouse, Linda Plaut joined the university’s staff as a part-time teacher. What started as a temporary position blossomed into a permanent career of…
Renowned poet, eight time NAACP award winner, University Distinguished Professor, and the list of achievements goes on, but much to Virginia Tech’s credit–Nikki Giovanni is a Hokie.
Although she didn’t attend Virginia Tech for her degree, she is…
This is the 2015 document submitted to the President's Office to create a Pride Resource Center on campus. The LGBTQA+ Resource Center was opened in 2016.
Ida Powell graduated from Virginia Tech in 1958 with a bachelor's degree in home economics. In this hour-long interview, Powell discusses her experience as a female student attending Virginia Tech's campus in the 1950s as well as her humanitarian…
This is an image of the contract for the hiring of Anna Campbell, one of the first women not affiliated with the Extension Division, to work as an instructor. Campbell was an education instructor in 1921.