Women at Auburn University

Tichenor Began Advocating for Female Enrollment

1872

Isaac Tichenor, inspired by Julia Tutwiler's fight for female education, would last several decades, but it began in the 1870's to little reception. The new president of the renamed Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama, reported to the board of trustees for the first time that the faculty would like to formally admit female students into their classes."

First Women Admitted to Auburn University

1892

After decades of battling for education for women at Alabama's two largest universities, three women were admitted into Auburn University--Katherine Broun, Margaret Teague and Willie Little