Tommie Lou Smith (1922-2008) began her career at Woman's College of the University of North Carolina now The University of North Carolina at Greensboro as an instructor in the Department of Business Education in 1946. She left the college in 1948 and returned to the same position in 1952. She became an academic advisor, served as associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences from 1963-1970, and retired as an assistant professor in the School of Business & Economics in 1975. Smith talks about coming to Woman's College, her educational career and her views on the outstanding reputation of the institution and the number of unmarried women faculty at that time. She describes the leadership styles of Chancellors Walter Clinton Jackson; Edward Kidder Graham, Jr.; Gordon Blackwell; Otis Singletary; and James S. Ferguson. Smith also talks about Vice Chancellor Mereb Mossman, her direct supervisor. She discusses physical changes on campus, the growth of the student body, the advent of the Schools, as well as curriculum changes, coeducation, integration, the arrival of computers and how this all affected academic advising.
