Here to Stay: The Story of the Class of Women Who Coeducated the University of Virginia With grace and conviction

With grace and conviction

a teacher in California grieving the death of her son

who is gone forever

Can powerful institutions be changed from within

Then Vera comes across a distressed young woman who is obviously in need of her kindly guidance

Here to Stay: The Story of the Class of Women Who Coeducated the University of Virginia With grace and convictionReflecting 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