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A founding member and the first Director of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women,
Rosemarie Archangel was a pioneer of SIUE Athletics.
Hired as an assistant professor of Physical Education in 1961, Archangel performed numerous duties for the University throughout her tenure, retiring as the Dean of Graduate Studies and Research.She served as the head coach of volleyball, softball, and field hockey teams at SIUE.
A former president of the SIUE Faculty Senate, one of Archangel’s top achievements was her work in helping to formulate the national guidelines for the 1972 law known as Title IX. In 1968 while pursuing her doctorate at Iowa, Archangel was selected to join 13 other women in Washington, D.C. to prepare draft guidelines for the implementation of Title IX. Those guidelines were subsequently adopted by Congress.
She also provided testimony before the Civil Rights Commission of the Justice Department and before various committees of the Illinois Legislature regarding the status of women in athletics at the university level.
During her tenure at SIUE, she hired the first coaches for women’s athletics programs and established the first university title of “coach” at the institution. Archangel was among the first class of inductees into SIUE’s Athletics Hall of Fame in 2005.