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Drexel Institute of Technology. Office of Development

 Organization

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Annual reports

 Collection
Identifier: UR-03-013
Scope and content note

This collection consists of annual reports submitted to the president of Drexel by administrators and department heads. They are comprehensive narrative reports summarizing activities and progress made over the course of the fiscal year. Reports are arranged alphabetically within the collection and by year within series.

Dates: 1929-2013; Majority of material found within 1945 - 1989

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 Institutional Advancement records

 Collection
Identifier: UR-03-025
Overview This collection documents some aspects of the growth and transformation of the departments which eventually evolved into Drexel University’s current Office of Institutional Advancement (OIA) over the course of the twentieth century. A large proportion of the collection consists of planning documents, publicity materials, and reports from major fundraising campaigns, especially in the 1950s through the 1970s. The reports and recommendations of public relations consultants Brakeley & Co.,...
Dates: 1925 - 2015; Majority of material found within 1950 - 2000

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

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Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Administration 2
Drexel Institute of Technology -- Administration 2
Drexel Institute of Technology -- African Americans -- Education (Higher) 2
Drexel Institute of Technology -- Alumni and alumnae 2
Drexel Institute of Technology -- Faculty 2
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Drexel Institute of Technology -- History 2
Drexel Institute of Technology -- Planning 2
Drexel Institute of Technology -- Students 2
Education, Cooperative -- United States 2
Education, Higher -- Administration 2
Education, Higher -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 2
Educational fund raising 2
Home economics -- Study and teaching 2
Universities and Colleges -- Pennsylvania -- Administration 2
Universities and Colleges -- Pennsylvania -- Curricula 2
Universities and Colleges -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 20th Century 2
Women -- Education (Higher) 2
Annual reports 1
College presidents -- Inauguration 1
College trustees 1
Correspondence 1
Degrees, Academic 1
Draft 1
Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Alumni and alumnae 1
Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Curricula 1
Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Faculty 1
Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- History 1
Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Planning 1
Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Sports 1
Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Students 1
Drexel Institute of Technology -- Accreditation 1
Drexel Institute of Technology -- Anniversaries, etc. 1
Drexel Institute of Technology -- Buildings 1
Drexel Institute of Technology -- Business and education 1
Drexel Institute of Technology -- Commencements 1
Drexel Institute of Technology -- Curricula 1
Drexel Institute of Technology -- Development 1
Drexel Institute of Technology -- Diamond Jubilee 1
Drexel Institute of Technology -- Extracurricular Activities 1
Drexel Institute of Technology -- Inauguration 1
Drexel Institute of Technology -- Public Relations 1
Drexel Institute of Technology -- Sports 1
Drexel Institute of Technology -- Student Housing 1
Fund raising 1
Fund raising -- Peaks of Progress 1
Fund raising -- Three Quarter Century Fund 1
Labor -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
Manuscripts (document genre) 1
Photographs 1
Public relations 1
School budgets 1
Speeches 1
Students, Foreign 1
Subversive activities 1
Universities and colleges -- Finance 1
Veterans -- Education -- United States 1
War and education 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Pennsylvania -- Education and the War 1
World War, 1939-1945 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Pennsylvania -- Education and the War 1
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