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These pages from the August 10, 1923, Board of Visitors meeting note the planned use of a vacated faculty residence as a dorm for women students.

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.

This image was created during initial…

This item includes four newspaper clippings or articles written about Mary Virginia Jones Berry. Two are from the vertical files in Special Collections and two are from the Virginia Tech website. Viewing individual items will provide additional…

This report includes details on a mid-1984 telephone survey of graduate students regarding child care. It was published by the Institutional Research and Planning Analysis, Vol. 84-85, No. 12. This is item is part of RG 5/10/1a, Associate Provost…

This report includes details on the early 1990 telephone survey of graduate students regarding child care. It was published by the Institutional Research and Planning Analysis, Vol. 89-90, No. 44. This is item is part of RG 5/10/1a, Associate Provost…

Carmen Venegas of Costa Rica was one of the first international Latina/Hispanic women students to graduate from Virginia Tech, with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1938. She was a founding member of the Short Wave Club, which invested in a school…

This is a newspaper article in memory of Virginia Hummel. It mentions her teaching career, and several people whom she inspired.

These articles are from the Montgomery News Messenger, Virginia Tech Centennial Edition, published in 1972. They cover the formation of the faculty women's club, the women's drill team, the 1944 consolidated of Radford and Virginia Tech, and the 1971…

This report includes information on requests for the university to provide additional childcare support. It was published by the Institutional Research and Planning Analysis, Vol. 83-84, No. 28 . This is item is part of RG 5/10/1a, Associate Provost…

This is the original grant proposal submitted to the National Science Foundation to establish the AdvanceVT initiative at Virginia Tech. The $3.5M institutional transformation grant project was carried out over seven years beginning in 2003. This…