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- 1921
- Women students admitted; resident instruction in Home Economics approved
- 1924
- Home Economics Department established; Miss Martha Dinwiddie, head
- 1925
- Home Economics Research by Dr. Ellen Reynolds begins at Agriculture Experiment Station
- 1925
- Four-year curriculum offered; graduate work established.
- 1929
- June, first Bachelor of Science degrees awarded to Josephine Fultz from Rockbridge, Sarah Thomas from Fredericksburg, Sarah Elizabeth Thomas from Madison, and Frances Vivan Vernon from Montgomery.
- 1930
- First master's degrees awarded to Lottye Phillips Bryant from Montgomery, Va.
- 1933
- Department suspended
- 1937
- Department reinstated as a department in School of Agriculture with Miss Maude E. Wallace, acting head
- 1939
- Dr. Mildred Tate named Department Head
- 1944
- Act of General Assembly designates Radford College as "The Woman's Division" of Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Women students majoring in Home Economics also required to register at Radford for their first two years.
- 1949
- Dr. Laura Jane Harper named professor of Nutrition and Foods.
- 1951
- Restriction on Home Economics enrollment at VPI removed.
- 1958
- May, Board of Visitors authorizes establishment of School of Home Economics, combining the programs of VPI and Radford College. Dr. Mildred Tate resigns. Dr. Laura Jane Harper appointed acting head.
- 1960
- September 1, the two-campus school is activated with four departments: Clothing, Textiles, and Related Art; Human Nutrition and Foods; and Management, Housing, and Family Development at VPI. A fourth department, Home Economics Education, is at Radford. The graduate program in Home Economics Education continues at VPI.
- 1964
- June 30, dissolution of the 20-year merger with Radford Home Economics program.
- 1964
- July, school designated as one of Virginia Tech's six colleges.
- 1966
- July, construction begins on the new home economics building,
Wallace Hall.
- 1968
- January 2, Wallace Hall is occupied by the College of Home Economics.
- 1971
- A doctoral program in Human Nutrition and Foods is established.
- 1975
- A doctoral program in Management, Housing, and Family Development is established.
- 1979
- Department of Clothing, Textiles, and Related Art accepts first doctoral students.
- 1979-80
- College enrollment tops 1,000: including 215 graduate students (83 are doctoral students).
- 1980
- Sanford J. Ritchey becomes Dean of the College of Home Economics at the beginning of the fall term.
- 1982
- The College of Home Economics is renamed the College of Human Resources. Its four departments reorganize into: the Department of Clothing and Textiles; the Department of Family and Child Development; the Department of Housing, Interior Design, and Resource Management; and the Department of Human Nutrition and Foods.
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