Isom Center Celebrates 40 Years of Women's Studies
Ole Miss News UM academic, social support center continues leading with yearlong reflection The official story of women at Ole Miss goes all the way back to the 1880s with the admission of the first 11 female students in 1882 – making it one of the first Southern universities to do so. This was followed three years later by the hiring of Sarah McGehee Isom, the university’s first female faculty member and the first female faculty member at a coeducational institution of higher learning in the Southeast. But decades later, the university’s position on women had gone from progressive to o...
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