Drexel Institute of Technology. College of Engineering
Organization
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
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
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
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
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- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Faculty 4
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- History 4
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Students 4
- Education, Cooperative -- United States 4
- Education, Higher -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 4
- Women -- Education (Higher) 4
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- 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 -- Accreditation 3
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- African Americans -- Education (Higher) 3
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Buildings 3
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- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Sports 3
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Student Housing 3
- Home economics -- Study and teaching 3
- Universities and Colleges -- Pennsylvania -- Administration 3
- Universities and Colleges -- Pennsylvania -- Curricula 3
- Universities and Colleges -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 20th Century 3
- Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Commencements 2
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- Education, Higher -- Administration 2
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- Manuscripts (document genre) 2
- Universities and colleges -- Finance 2
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- Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Business and education 1
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- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Business and education 1
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Diamond Jubilee 1
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- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Inauguration 1
- Drexel University -- History 1
- Engineering 1
- Engineering -- Study and teaching 1
- Financial records 1
- Labor -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
- Minutes 1
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- Philadelphia (Pa.) 1
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- School budgets 1
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- Students, Foreign 1
- Subversive activities 1
- Veterans -- Education -- United States 1
- War and education 1
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