Drexel Institute of Technology. Office of the President
Organization
Found in 6 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
Found in:
Drexel University Archives
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Annual reports
General Correspondence, 1891-1958, bulk: 1920 - 1945
Series
Identifier: Series VIII
Scope and content note
Series 8: General Correspondence, 65 foldersThis series includes folders which were from the Office of the President generally without reference to a specific President and those folders which included the papers of multiple Presidents of Drexel. A large section of this series is those folders which were marked “miscellaneous”. These often included a page or two on a specific topic and this had been combined with a few other unrelated items. This series varies greatly but...
Dates:
1891-1958; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1945
George P. Rea, 1941-1945
Series
Identifier: Series V
Scope and content note
Series 5: George Peters, Rea, 13 folders,The Rea Series is another small series due to the limited time that Rea was President at Drexel. There is a radio address by him, correspondence, interviews, meeting minutes, and academic programs at Drexel. The academic programs include the war effort and its affect on Drexel, such as an acceleration of curricula for the School of Engineering specifically for defense industries. There were also reduced entrance requirements for high...
Dates:
1941-1945
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, 1899-1942, bulk: 1932 - 1942
Series
Identifier: Series IV
Scope and content note
Series 4: Kolbe, Parke R. 200 Folders This is the largest series in the collection. There is material on the Athletic Departments of Drexel during Kolbe’s tenure including budgets, data from local colleges athletic departments during the 1930’s, and a study from 1931 on athletic departments within the Middle Atlantic region correspondence with the Board of Trustee Committee on Athletics, reports on the responsibilities for the Athletic Departments of various universities, correspondence and...
Dates:
1899-1942; Majority of material found within 1932 - 1942
Additional filters:
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- Archival Record 3
- Collection 3
- Subject
- Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Administration 4
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- History 4
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Students 4
- Universities and Colleges -- Pennsylvania -- Administration 4
- Universities and Colleges -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 20th Century 4
- Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Alumni and alumnae 3
- Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Faculty 3
- Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Students 3
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Administration 3
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- African Americans -- Education (Higher) 3
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Alumni and alumnae 3
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Faculty 3
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Planning 3
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Public Relations 3
- Education, Cooperative -- United States 3
- Education, Higher -- Administration 3
- Education, Higher -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 3
- Educational fund raising 3
- Home economics -- Study and teaching 3
- Universities and Colleges -- Pennsylvania -- Curricula 3
- Women -- Education (Higher) 3
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Pennsylvania -- Education and the War 3
- Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Buildings 2
- Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Curricula 2
- Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- History 2
- Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Planning 2
- Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Public relations 2
- Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Sports 2
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Accreditation 2
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Buildings 2
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Sports 2
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Student Housing 2
- Universities and colleges -- Finance 2
- World War, 1939-1945 2
- Annual reports 1
- College presidents -- Inauguration 1
- College trustees 1
- Communism in education -- Pennsylvania 1
- Correspondence 1
- Degrees, Academic 1
- Draft 1
- Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Business and education 1
- Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Commencements 1
- Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Student housing 1
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Anniversaries, etc. 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 -- Publicity 1
- Labor -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
- Manuscripts (document genre) 1
- Photographs 1
- School budgets 1
- Speeches 1
- Students, Foreign 1
- Subversive activities 1
- Veterans -- Education -- United States 1
- War and education 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Pennsylvania -- Education and the War 1 ∧ less
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