Women on Campus: Memories of Purdue’s Campus & Classrooms in the Seventies

by Anna Brown      “Being sensitive of institutional inequality was not on my radar screen, everyone was treated fairly. It became clearer and clearer that was not the case.” (1)  Betty Nelson joined Purdue University staff in the mid-1960s with this mindset as many female students did. As the decade closed and the seventies began, the wall of inequality began to break down for many women on Purdue University’s campus as… Read More