Jane Tucker Mitchell (1931- ) graduated from Mary Baldwin College in 1953 and received her master's degree in 1955 from George Washington University. In 1958, Mitchell joined the faculty of Woman's College, now The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, as an instructor at the Curry Demonstration School. In 1964, she received a Fulbright Grant to study in France and obtained her PhD in 1973 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Mitchell recalls her parents operating a hotel in West Virginia, the affect that the Great Depression had on her family, and her early education. She remembers her undergraduate years at Mary Baldwin College and obtaining her master's degree at George Washington University. Mitchell discusses coming to Woman's College and her experiences at the Curry Demonstration School and the Department of Education. She discusses the co-educational transition, the physical expansion, and the student body growth of the college, as well as the Civil Rights Movement in Greensboro. Mitchell also talks about obtaining her PhD at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her joint appointment to the Department of Romance Languages and the Department of Education. She speaks about student/faculty relationships, faculty life, and the politics of being a university instructor. Mitchell recalls the closing of the Curry Demonstration School, the difficulty in grading student teachers, her personal accomplishments in teaching, and the enticements the university provided to bring in new faculty. She also describes her life after retiring from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1996.