1900s

Isabel Bevier joined the Domestic Science department at the University of Illinois in 1900. Isabel industrialized the Home Economics Program ...

Laura B. Evans became a member of the Board of Trustees in 1903, one of the very first women to ...

Mary Busey was an influential member of the Board of Trustees from 1904 until 1930. Coming from a local well-known ...

Maudelle Brown Bousfield was the first African American woman to graduate from the University of Illinois. She graduated in 1906 ...