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Drexel University. Office of the President

 Organization

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

Assistant to the President patent records

 Collection
Identifier: UR-01-012
Scope and content note This collection consists of administrative files relating to both patents and the Patent Advisory Committee. It also contains a series of files on individual patent applications where ownership was considered by the Patent Advisory Committee. Files were created by the following: Carl Gatlin, vice president for academic affairs, 1965-1969; S. Herbert Raynes, assistant vice president for academic affairs, 1966-1970, and later assistant to the president, 1970-1974; and M. Jerry Kenig, assistant...
Dates: 1966-1982

Hollis Godfrey administration records

 Collection
Identifier: UR-01-002
Overview Hollis Godfrey (1987-1936) served as president of the Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry from 1913 to 1921. He was educated as an engineer at Tufts, Harvard, and MIT, where he also taught. While living in Boston he was an administrator at the School of Practical Arts in Boston. He came to Drexel in 1913 and was the President until 1921. This collection contains correspondence, speeches, and research done on Godfrey in 1959. There is also a functionalization chart on the...
Dates: 1913-1961; Majority of material found within 1914 - 1922

James Creese administration records

 Collection — Box: OV13, oversize: unknown container
Identifier: UR-01-007
Overview James Creese served as the president of the Drexel Institute from 1945 to 1963. His tenure began with a tremendous influx of students in the post-WWII years and continued to oversee tremendous growth of the Institute, both in the physical expansion of its campus and in the development of its academic programs, especially in engineering and cooperative education. Such extensive development required major capital investments, for which two major fundraising campaigns were undertaken during...
Dates: 1941-1967

James MacAlister papers

 Collection
Identifier: UR-01-001
Abstract James MacAlister (1840-1913) served as the first president of the Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry from 1891 to 1913. He was a proponent of vocational and technical education throughout his career. This collection documents his term as president, his views on education, and his involvement in the early history of the Drexel Institute. Records include MacAlister’s letters, a book that he published, lectures, and his personal notebook, as well as research notes believed to have...
Dates: 1889-1941; Majority of material found within 1900 - 1905

Kenneth G. Matheson administration records

 Collection
Identifier: UR-01-003
Overview This collection contains the files of Kenneth G. Matheson, president of the Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry from 1922 to 1931. As he took office, Matheson and the Institute faced many challenges, including financial difficulties, decreasing enrollments, outdated facilities, and a generally dissatisfied university community. The files contain correspondence with faculty, parents and students which documents the numerous, positive changes Matheson helped to initiate during his...
Dates: 1921-1932

Office of the President records

 Collection
Identifier: UR-01-011
Abstract Four presidents of Drexel University are represented in the collection: James Creese (1896-1966, president 1945-1963), William Walsh Hagerty (1916-1986, president 1963-1984), William Samuel Gaither (b. 1932, president 1984-1987), and Richard Breslin (b. 1937 or 1938, president 1988-1994). This collection consists of subject files, reports, and other materials compiled by the staff of the Office of the President between 1950 and 1989, overlapping the terms of several presidents....
Dates: 1950-1989

Office of the President records

 Collection
Identifier: UR-01-005
Overview This collection consists of subject files created by the Office of the President during the tenures of the first six presidents of the Drexel Institute: James MacAlister (1840-1913, president 1891-1913), Hollis Godfrey (1874-1936, president 1914-1921), Kenneth Matheson (1864-1931, president 1921-1932), Parke R. Kolbe (1881-1942, president 1932-1942), George P. Rea (1894-1978, president 1942-1944), and James Creese (1896-1966, president 1945-1963), as well as during the interim presidency of...
Dates: 1891-1965; Majority of material found within 1913 - 1954

Office of the President records on Board of Trustees

 Collection
Identifier: UR-01-013
Scope and content note This collection consists of records compiled by the Office of the President on the Board of Trustees. It is divided into four series.The first series, Committees, contains files on the various committees of the Board from 1968 to 1994. The larger files in this series are on the Audit committee, the Buildings and property committee, the Finance committee, the Executive committee, the Honors and awards committee, the Investment committee, the Membership and Nomination committees,...
Dates: 1945-1996

Parke R. Kolbe administration records

 Collection
Identifier: UR-01-004
Abstract Parke Rexford Kolbe, the Drexel Institute's fourth president, served from 1932 to 1942. Before coming to Drexel, Dr. Kolbe was president of the University of Akron from 1913 to 1925 and of the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn from 1925 to 1932. As Drexel's president, Dr. Kolbe presided over the decentralization of Drexel's administration and the development of educational programs to support national defense as the threat of U.S. involvement in World War II loomed. The bulk of the...
Dates: 1931-1941

Richard D. Breslin administration records

 Collection
Identifier: UR-01-010
Overview This collection consists chiefly of subject files on administrative, academic, and financial topics compiled during the term of Drexel president Richard D. Breslin. The collection also contains material relating to his inauguration as president, his personal files, speeches, and the implementation of his Strategic Plan. The bulk of the collection covers 1988-1994, the time span Dr. Breslin was in office, but there are many earlier files dating from William S. Gaither's term as president...
Dates: 1966-1996

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Subject
Correspondence 6
Education, Cooperative -- United States 5
College presidents -- Inauguration 4
Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Alumni and alumnae 4
Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Faculty 4
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Drexel University -- Faculty 4
Drexel University -- History 4
Education, Higher -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 4
Women -- Education (Higher) 4
Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Curricula 3
Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- History 3
Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Sports 3
Drexel Institute of Technology -- Administration 3
Drexel Institute of Technology -- Alumni and alumnae 3
Drexel Institute of Technology -- Faculty 3
Drexel Institute of Technology -- History 3
Drexel Institute of Technology -- Students 3
Drexel University -- Buildings 3
Manuscripts (document genre) 3
Publications 3
Reports 3
School budgets 3
Speeches 3
College buildings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 2
Commencement ceremonies -- United States. 2
Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Administration 2
Drexel Institute of Technology -- Accreditation 2
Drexel Institute of Technology -- African Americans -- Education (Higher) 2
Drexel Institute of Technology -- Anniversaries, etc. 2
Drexel Institute of Technology -- Buildings 2
Drexel Institute of Technology -- Commencements 2
Drexel Institute of Technology -- Curricula 2
Drexel Institute of Technology -- Development 2
Drexel Institute of Technology -- Planning 2
Drexel Institute of Technology -- Public Relations 2
Drexel Institute of Technology -- Sports 2
Drexel Institute of Technology -- Student Housing 2
Drexel University -- Administration 2
Drexel University -- African Americans -- Education (Higher) 2
Drexel University -- Alumni and alumnae 2
Drexel University -- Cooperative Education 2
Drexel University -- Development 2
Drexel University -- Students 2
Education, Higher -- Administration 2
Home economics -- Study and teaching 2
Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools 2
Office of the President 2
Scholarships 2
Universities and Colleges -- Pennsylvania -- Administration 2
Universities and Colleges -- Pennsylvania -- Curricula 2
Universities and Colleges -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 20th Century 2
Veterans -- Education -- United States 2
World War, 1914-1918 -- Pennsylvania -- Education and the War 2
AIDS (Disease) 1
Accreditation (Education) 1
Advisory boards 1
Annual reports 1
Awards 1
Boathouses 1
Breslin, Richard -- Inauguration 1
College applications 1
College attendance 1
College facilities -- Planning 1
College students 1
College teachers -- Tenure 1
College trustees 1
Community and college -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
Deans (Education) 1
Degrees, Academic 1
Draft 1
Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Anniversaries, etc. 1
Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Commencements 1
Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Curriculum. 1
Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Planning 1
Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Student housing 1
Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Students 1
Drexel Institute of Technology -- Business and education 1
Drexel Institute of Technology -- Diamond Jubilee 1
Drexel Institute of Technology -- Extracurricular Activities 1
Drexel Institute of Technology -- Football 1
Drexel Institute of Technology -- Inauguration 1
Education 1
Educational fund raising 1
Endowment Reports 1
Ethics 1
Fulbright scholarships 1
Hagerty, William W., 1916-1986 -- Inauguration 1
Labor -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
Legislation 1
Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching (Lindback Award) 1
Marketing 1
Microcomputers 1
Minorities 1
Minutes 1
Multiculturalism 1
Museums 1
Organization 1
Parties 1
Patents 1
Photographs 1
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