Virginia Trotter papers, bulk 1965-1987

Summary

Creator:
Trotter, Virginia Y. and University of Georgia
Date:
bulk 1965-1987
Extent:
67 Linear Feet (67 boxes)
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Item, box, folder], Virginia Trotter papers, UA97-073, University Archives, University of Georgia

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains administrative subject files and files concerning departments and school at the university. These include memos, correspondence, studies, reports, and planning documents.

Also included are files belonging to Leroy Ervin, the assistant vice president for academic affairs and director of developmental studies at the University of Georgia.

Biographical / historical:

Virginia Trotter was the vice president for academic affairs at the University of Georgia from 1981-1986. Her job was to promote a campus environment centered on teaching, research and public service, and she was the first woman to serve in this capacity. Trotter's service at UGA ended in the wake of the Jan Kemp scandal in 1986.

Trotter began her administrative career at the University of Utah in 1948 as director of the university's home management laboratory. From 1950 to 1955 she served as head of the Home Economics and Management Division at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. From 1955 to 1963 she worked as chairman of home economics at the University of Vermont.

Trotter returned to the University of Nebraska in 1963 and served as dean of the College of Home Economics at the school until 1972, and vice chancellor for academic affairs from 1972 to 1974. Immediately prior to her UGA role, Kemp was the Assistant Secretary of Education from 1974 to 1977. She served in as an educator in home economics at the University of Utah, University of Vermont, and University of Nebraska Lincoln.

Access and use restrictions

Preferred citation:

[Item, box, folder], Virginia Trotter papers, UA97-073, University Archives, University of Georgia