Drexel University. Office of the President
Organization
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
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
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
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
William S. Gaither administration records
Collection — Box: 2
Identifier: UR-01-009
Overview
This collection consists chiefly of a set of subject files on organizations, university offices and departments, special projects, and administrative topics compiled by Drexel's ninth president, William S. Gaither. The collection also contains a record of Dr. Gaither's outgoing correspondence from June 1984 to December 1986 and a box of certificates presented to him at his inauguration held in 1985. The collection contains correspondence, memorandum, speeches, reports, memos, drafts,...
Dates:
1981-1987
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- Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Administration 2
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- Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- History 2
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- Drexel Institute of Technology -- African Americans -- Education (Higher) 2
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- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Buildings 2
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Commencements 2
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Curricula 2
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- Universities and Colleges -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 20th Century 2
- College buildings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
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- Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Curricula 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
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- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Inauguration 1
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- Drexel University -- Students 1
- Education, Higher -- Administration 1
- Educational fund raising 1
- Labor -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
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- Press releases 1
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- Reports 1
- Students, Foreign 1
- Subversive activities 1
- Universities and colleges -- Finance 1
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- World War, 1914-1918 -- Pennsylvania -- Education and the War 1
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