😁 From the first female Penn State student to the first female president of the Penn State Board of Trustees, Penn State is filled with female “firsts.”⁠ .⁠ In fact, the first female student to attend Penn State wasn’t really a student at all, according to the Daily Collegian.⁠ .⁠ In 1864, Minerva Whitman attended her father’s botany classes at the university. However, she was not permitted to register as an official student.⁠ .⁠ Although Whitman was never acknowledged by Penn State as a student, her appearances in the classroom introduced the idea that women could coexist with men at the university.⁠ .⁠ Click the 🔗 in bio to read some of the other amazing stories of women at Penn State!