Drexel Institute of Technology. College of Engineering
Organization
Found in 5 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
/
Annual reports
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
Found in:
Drexel University Archives
/
Hollis Godfrey papers
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 Art, Science, and Industry -- History 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 -- Sports 3
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Administration 3
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Alumni and alumnae 3
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Faculty 3
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Students 3
- Education, Higher -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 3
- Universities and Colleges -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 20th Century 3
- Women -- Education (Higher) 3
- Correspondence 2
- Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Commencements 2
- Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Curricula 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 -- Accreditation 2
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- African Americans -- Education (Higher) 2
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Buildings 2
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- History 2
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Planning 2
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Public Relations 2
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Sports 2
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Student Housing 2
- Education, Cooperative -- United States 2
- Education, Higher -- Administration 2
- Home economics -- Study and teaching 2
- Manuscripts (document genre) 2
- Universities and Colleges -- Pennsylvania -- Administration 2
- Universities and Colleges -- Pennsylvania -- Curricula 2
- Annual reports 1
- Anti-Semitism 1
- College trustees 1
- Communism in education -- Pennsylvania 1
- Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Anniversaries, etc. 1
- Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Buildings 1
- Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Business and education 1
- Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Public relations 1
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Anniversaries, etc. 1
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Commencements 1
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Curricula 1
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Development 1
- Educational fund raising 1
- Office of the President 1
- Photographs 1
- Publications 1
- School budgets 1
- Universities and colleges -- Finance 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Pennsylvania -- Education and the War 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1
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