College of Human Environmental Sciences Faculty

The program of home economics at the University of Alabama has had a steady and sound growth. The early courses were introduced to meet the demand of women coming in increasing numbers to the State University, to contribute to their cultural development and to the improvement of homemaking in Alabama. The recommendations of the 1919 Educational Survey Commission, the expansion of facilities for women at the University, the changing status of women and the increasing emphasis on a college program training for home making and a career, have all contributed to the accomplishment of a home economics program, offering courses to any young woman in the University, as well as a group of curricula training for the wide range of positions now being filled by home economists. This steady, sound growth has been due, in large measure to a progressive and understanding co-operation on the part of the administration of the University, and to a changing ideal in education which has brought a wider horizon to home economics.