Here to Stay: The Story of the Class of Women Who Coeducated the University of Virginia - Cape Breton Highlands National

- Cape Breton Highlands National Park

a teacher in California grieving the death of her son

telling their own stories in bold

Martha and Henry have been the side characters in their own lives

With grace and conviction

Here to Stay: The Story of the Class of Women Who Coeducated the University of Virginia - Cape Breton Highlands NationalReflecting on the legacy of the first class of undergraduate women at UVA The campaign to secure unfettered access to higher education for women took decades of activism and advocacy, and mainstream skepticism over the viability of coeducation persisted until shockingly recently. Many august institutions dragged their feet until the passage of Title IX codified equal access to higher education. The University of Virginia was the last public university