Records of the Office of the Dean of Women, 1897-1981.

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Records of the Office of the Dean of Women, 1897-1981.

Records include administrative correspondence, annual reports, speeches and writings of Deans Stacy and Carmichael, and files pertaining to (in some cases, containing records of) various women's student government organizations. Also regulations and policies governing women students, files on facilities for women, and several lists of women students, 1897-1946. Also some personal papers of Dean Carmichael, 1946-1978, which include correspondence from trips she made to the Philippines, 1951-1952, and to Saigon, Vietnam, 1961-1962. Topics of particular importance include the formation of the North Carolina Association of Deans of Women, 1922; visits to the University by the women members of the Board of Trustees in 1957-1958 and 1967-1968.

About 6,900 items (9.0 linear ft.).

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Stacy, Inez Koonce.

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Carmichael, Katherine Kennedy, 1912-1982

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University of North Carolina (1793-1962)

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The University of North Carolina was chartered by the state's General Assembly in 1789. Its first student was admitted in 1795. The governing body of the University, from its founding until 1932, was a forty-member Board of Trustees elected by the General Assembly. The Board met twice a year; at other times the business of the University was carried on by the Board's secretary-treasurer and by the presiding professor (called president beginning in 1804). Other faculty members later assumed the r...

North Carolina Association of Deans of Women.

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University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Office of the Dean of Women.

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University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Adviser to Women.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Office of the Dean of Women.

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Women were first admitted to the University as graduate students in 1897. In 1917, Clara S. Lingle was appointed Adviser to Women. She was succeeded in 1919 by Inez Koonce Stacy, who held the office until 1946 and during whose tenure (1942) the title of the office became Dean of Women. Katherine Carmichael succeeded Dean Stacy and served until 1977. In 1972 the office of Dean of Women was abolished, and Dean Carmichael was appointed Associate Dean of Student Affairs for Supportive Services. The ...