2018-02-16 Guide to the Elaine Hairston Oral History Transcript and Audiocassette Recording, 2003 September 4 RG.41.25 Finding aid prepared by Audrey Wimbiscus Ohio State University Libraries Special Collections
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2018 February This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2020-08-04T12:41-0400 English Describing Archives: A Content Standard Elaine Hairston Oral History Transcript and Audiocassette Recording RG.41.25 Ohio State University Libraries Special Collections 0.035 Cubic feet 2003 September 4 The Elaine Hairston Oral History Transcript and Audiocassette Recording contains an interview of Hairston from September 4, 2003. Hairston was the first female Chancellor and youngest person to be named to the Ohio Board of Regents, and also worked for the Ohio State University as the associate director of Affirmative Action Programs. (1) letter file folder; (3) audiocassettes English Hairston, Elaine Arrangement of Materials

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Accession Number UA.2007.0070: Elaine Hairston, date unknown

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Contains audiocassettes

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 Biographical Note

Elaine Hayden Hairston (born October 28, 1943) was the first female and youngest person ever to be named Chancellor for Academic and Special Programs at the Ohio Board of Regents. She started her career at Ohio State University as a teaching assistant in the Department of Speech and Communications in 1966. Hairston received her bachelors, masters, and PhD from the Ohio State University in the late 1960s. She also was an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Communications. In 1971, Hairston was named the associate director of Affirmative Action Programs at Ohio State University. In this position, she worked to include women in the university marching band, and to create a childcare center on campus. Hairston saw herself as a "change agent," both at Ohio State University and on the Ohio Board of Regents. Her accomplishments as chancellor included integrating two-year campuses into planning sessions, creating childcare centers at every public college that wanted them, expansion of technical colleges into community colleges, more support for minority and Appalachian students, and the development of OhioLink.

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The Elaine Hairston Oral History Transcript and Audiocassette Recording contains an interview of Hairston by Judith Ball Fountain conducted on September 4, 2003. In this interview, they discuss Hairston's various positions at Ohio State University, and her accomplishments as the first female Chancellor and youngest person to be named to the Ohio Board of Regents.

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 Audiocassette recording Oral History 6 Oral History 8 2003 September 4 Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

(3) audiocassettes; approximate run time: unknown