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This is an interview with Marva Lajeune Felder, detailing her experiences at Virginia Tech, including an audio file and a transcript.

This is the transcript of an interview of Aldora Green, a long-time employee of Virginia Tech, about her experiences working on campus. She was interviewed by Linda Plaut and Jana Ruble.

This is the text of a Founder's Day talk by Laura Jane Harper, April 11, 1980.

This is the text of remarks by Laura Jane Harper from 1985 on women at VPI.

This document provides a brief history of the home economics and human resources departments for women. It describes how certain buildings came to be, how the women lived at VPI for the first time, and what they studied, a well as President Burruss'…

Speech by Laura Jane Harper, "The Education of Women at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute: A Look at the Past and Present, with Predictions about the Future." It isn't clear where it was given, but it was first presented in 1962. It summarizes the…

This is a transcript of an interview with Dr. LaVerne "Freddie" Hairston Higgins, detailing her experiences at Virginia Tech, including an audio file and a transcript.

Linda Adams (now Hoyle) was the first Black Woman to Graduate from Virginia Tech.

The paper summarizes research conducted by doctoral students at Virginia Tech concerning the characteristics and status of women in positions of administration in 1980-1981. This is item is part of RG 5/10/1a, Associate Provost Patricia Hyer Papers,…

This 1983 report prepared by the Taskforce on Affirmative Action of the Women's Network presents an analysis of institutional data including representations of women on the faculty over the five-year period 1978-1983 and salary comparisons. The…