{"151461":{"#nid":"151461","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tech Hits Mark of 60 Years as Co-ed Campus","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhen talking about Georgia Tech, \u201cthe ratio\u201d often comes up. It\u2019s commonly known that when it comes to demographics, women are outnumbered. But this year, Tech celebrates the 60th anniversary of a co-ed campus and its role as the number one producer of women engineers in the country.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn 1952, Diane Michel and Elizabeth Cofer Herndon enrolled at the Georgia Institute of Technology. In the six decades since Michel and Herndon arrived, women at Tech have transformed and improved the Institute in classrooms, labs, athletics and international prestige.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis year\u2019s freshman class set a record for being 35 percent female, with the overall student female population at 30 percent. Women on campus find solidarity in groups such as Women in Engineering, Women in Computing, the Society of Women Engineers, the Society of Women in Business, the Faculty Women\u2019s Club and Greek letter organizations. The Institute\u2019s Center for the Study of Women, Science and Technology threads its focus through an academic minor and a living-learning housing community.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhen Karen Feigh came to Tech as an undergraduate in 1997, there was one female professor in the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering from which she earned her bachelor\u2019s degree. Now an associate professor in the School herself, she is one of three women on the aerospace faculty \u2013 a 300 percent increase, but a reflection of the gains still possible.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIn the past five years I\u2019ve been a faculty member, the number and quality of women being hired on campus has been incredibly high,\u201d Feigh said. That trend, she believes, will be key to continued increases in female faculty and students. Current women in leadership roles include School of Interactive Computing Chair Annie Ant\u00f3n, H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering Chair Jane Ammons, Director of the Institute for Leadership and Entrepreneurship Terry Blum and Dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts Jacqueline Royster. In 2011, Archie Ervin assumed the new role of Vice President for Institute Diversity to keep the goal of a diverse, high-achieving campus at the top of the Institute\u2019s strategic efforts.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECassie Mitchell, a research engineer in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, not only earned her PhD from the Institute in 2009 and researches solutions for neurological injury and disease, but also competed in this year\u2019s London Paralympic Games as part of the U.S. Track and Field team. She was one of three female Jackets to participate in the 2012 games.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the past eight years, women have out-earned men in prestigious fellowships, including Andrea Barrett\u2019s 2010 Hertz Fellowship, lauded as a pinnacle honor for graduate students and valued at nearly $250,000.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYoung alumnae also pursue entrepreneurship, founding companies such as Techturized, a startup celebrating African American women with natural hair, which was created by Candace Mitchell.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThree women have represented Tech not only on an international stage, but an interplanetary one: alumnae Nancy \u201cJan\u201d Davis, Sandra Magnus and Susan Still have spent a cumulative 205 days in space serving NASA missions.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPerhaps because of the immense historical accomplishments of Tech women, Feigh has never felt out of place as a woman.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI came back as a grad student and then a faculty member because I felt like I found my people. The overriding passion in our lives was research, questions, knowledge, engineering, the ability to be highly analytical; the fact that I\u2019m a woman has always been secondary.\u201d It helps that women at Tech leave a legacy for each other \u2013 Feigh is the proud inheritor of regalia that once belonged to Helen Grenga, the first full tenured female engineering professor and former director of the office of graduate studies and research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn 1998, Tech opened its Women\u2019s Resource Center and began growing its female leaders annually with the Women\u2019s Leadership Conference. This year\u2019s conference will be Nov. 2-3 and is open to all. 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