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Drexel Institute of Technology. College of Engineering

 Organization

Found in 11 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

College of Engineering records

 Collection
Identifier: UR-04-007
Overview The College of Engineering is among the oldest colleges at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Since its establishment in 1914, it has achieved many firsts. In 1915, it became the first school at Drexel permitted to grant a four-year degree; in 1919, it was the first to implement a cooperative education program, placing students in business, industrial and professional assignments as a component of their education; and, later, in 1925, it was the first to extend the cooperative...
Dates: 1930 - 2013; Majority of material found within 1956 - 1973

Early photographs of the Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry

 Collection
Identifier: PC-00-003
Abstract

This collection consists of photographs of the Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry from 1891 to 1936. It includes photographs of the exterior and interior of the Main Building, men’s and women’s athletic teams, and students from various academic departments.

Dates: 1885-1936; Majority of material found within 1891 - 1915

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

Hollis Godfrey papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC-00-011
Overview Hollis Godfrey (1874-1936) 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, and he later taught at MIT and served as an administrator at the School of Practical Arts in Boston. The collection contains correspondence, including a series of letters between Godfrey and the poet Vachel Lindsay; Dr. Godfrey's publications, manuscripts, and speeches; administrative records from the Engineering...
Dates: 1915-1936

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

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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Collection 10
Archival Record 1
 
Subject
Education, Cooperative -- United States 6
Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Administration 5
Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- History 5
Education, Higher -- Administration 5
Education, Higher -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 5
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Correspondence 4
Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Alumni and alumnae 4
Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Faculty 4
Drexel Institute of Technology -- Administration 4
Drexel Institute of Technology -- Alumni and alumnae 4
Drexel Institute of Technology -- Faculty 4
Drexel Institute of Technology -- History 4
Drexel Institute of Technology -- Students 4
Home economics -- Study and teaching 4
Universities and Colleges -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 20th Century 4
Women -- Education (Higher) 4
Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Curricula 3
Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Sports 3
Drexel Institute of Technology -- Accreditation 3
Drexel Institute of Technology -- African Americans -- Education (Higher) 3
Drexel Institute of Technology -- Buildings 3
Drexel Institute of Technology -- Planning 3
Drexel Institute of Technology -- Public Relations 3
Drexel Institute of Technology -- Sports 3
Drexel Institute of Technology -- Student Housing 3
Drexel University -- History 3
Manuscripts (document genre) 3
Universities and Colleges -- Pennsylvania -- Administration 3
Universities and Colleges -- Pennsylvania -- Curricula 3
Accreditation (Education) 2
Annual reports 2
Deans (Education) 2
Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Buildings 2
Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Commencements 2
Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Planning 2
Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Student housing 2
Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Students 2
Drexel Institute of Technology -- Anniversaries, etc. 2
Drexel Institute of Technology -- Commencements 2
Drexel Institute of Technology -- Curricula 2
Drexel Institute of Technology -- Development 2
Educational fund raising 2
Office of the President 2
Publications 2
School budgets 2
Universities and colleges -- Finance 2
World War, 1914-1918 2
World War, 1914-1918 -- Pennsylvania -- Education and the War 2
AIDS (Disease) 1
Advisory boards 1
Anti-Semitism 1
Awards 1
Black-and-white photographs. 1
Boathouses 1
Breslin, Richard -- Inauguration 1
College attendance 1
College presidents -- Inauguration 1
College trustees 1
Commencement ceremonies -- United States. 1
Communism in education -- Pennsylvania 1
Community and college -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
Curricula 1
Degrees, Academic 1
Draft 1
Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Anniversaries, etc. 1
Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Business and education 1
Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Curriculum. 1
Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Public relations 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 -- Inauguration 1
Drexel University -- Faculty 1
Education, Higher -- Pennsylvania -- History 1
Endowment Reports 1
Engineering 1
Engineering -- Study and teaching 1
Ethics 1
Financial records 1
Fulbright scholarships 1
Labor -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
Legislation 1
Marketing 1
Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools 1
Minorities 1
Minutes 1
Multiculturalism 1
Museums 1
Organization 1
Parties 1
Philadelphia (Pa.) 1
Photographs 1
Reports 1
Research 1
Scholarships 1
School records 1
Speeches 1
Strategic planning 1
Students -- Social life and customs 1
Students, Foreign 1
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