Women's efforts to support and advance the university's mission, work that began long before the first female students were admitted.
- 1805 Old Salem girls' boarding school
- 1854 Graduating Class, Wesleyan Female Institute, Murfreesboro, North Carolina
- Judith Vermeule Phillips (1796-1881)
- Invitation to 1843 commencement ball with student's handwritten note asking his uncle "to bring all the girls."
- Ann Segur Hilliard (1807-1873)
- Caroline Lee Hentz (1800-1856)
- Lucy Battle (1805-1874)
- Easter Snipes, cook at President Kemp Plummer Battle's house
- Pauli Murray (1910-1985)
- Eleanor Swain Atkins (c. 1843-1881)
- Cornelia Phillips Spencer (1826-1908)
- Cornelia Phillips Spencer (1826-1908)
- Edwin Alderman and Charles Duncan McIver with first graduating class, Greensboro, 1893
- Mary MacRae became the literary editor of the Tar Heel in 1898.