Paula (Laird) Raney '72 was one of the first women engineering students in 1969. She was drawn to St. Ambrose by a scholarship and its strong engineering and physics programs. ⁣ ⁣ “It was not only the faculty and my peers, the whole campus was welcoming,” Raney said. ⁣ ⁣ Today over 16,000 women have received their degrees at St. Ambrose, and more than 50 percent of students enrolled last year are female. ⁣ ⁣ #InternationalWomensDay⁣