Hollis Rogers (1911-2003) was an assistant professor emeritus in biology at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, formerly the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina. He came to the institution in 1948 and retired in 1979. He received the 1974 Alumni Teaching Excellence Award. Rogers describes his educational background, World War II service, faculty and student life, and the highly-selective student body, which was female and white, but economically diverse. He discusses the tough academic standards imposed by the students themselves and changes in the biology department. Rogers talks about Chancellors Walter Clinton Jackson, Edward Kidder Graham, Jr., Otis Singletary, and James S. Ferguson; administrators Mereb Mossman and Stanley Jones; and biology professors John Paul Givler, Lois Cutter, Victor Cutter, Bruce Eberhart, and William Bates. He felt that the Woman's College was a luxury the state could not afford and was against having a PhD program in biology at the school. Rogers talks about integration and in particular one of his black students, Ada Markita Fisher, Class of 1970. He discusses coeducation and the subsequent decline in academic standards. Rogers also recalls the heyday of science education in the late 1950s and the early 1960s, when he obtained a National Science Foundation grant.
