Drexel Institute of Technology. Evening College
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
Evening College records
Collection
Identifier: UR-04-002
Overview
The Drexel Evening College was founded in 1891, as the Department of Lectures and Evening Classes within the Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry, and held its first classes in 1892. A program of study geared towards working adults, it offered courses in drawing, decorative painting, modeling, woodcarving, stained glass, mathematics, bookkeeping, stenography and typewriting, chemistry, physics, shop work in wood and iron, cookery, dressmaking, millinery, physical culture,...
Dates:
1921 - 1993; Majority of material found within 1935 - 1988
Found in:
Drexel University Archives
/
Evening College records
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
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
Richard W. Schneider records
Collection
Identifier: UR-03-002
Overview
Richard Schneider was a senior administrator at Drexel from 1985 to 1992. A retired rear admiral in the United States Coast Guard Reserves, he graduated from the Coast Guard Academy and served eight years of active duty before returning to the academy as an assistant professor and assistant dean of academics. He later earned a master's degree from Wesleyan University and a doctorate in public policy from the University of Delaware and worked as an executive officer at the College of Marine...
Dates:
1973-1993
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- Collection 4
- Archival Record 1
- Subject
- Education, Higher -- Administration 4
- Education, Cooperative -- United States 3
- Annual reports 2
- Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Administration 2
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Accreditation 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 -- Buildings 2
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Faculty 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
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Students 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
- Universities and colleges -- Finance 2
- Women -- Education (Higher) 2
- Accreditation (Education) 1
- Administrative records 1
- Adult education. 1
- Alumnae and alumni 1
- Brochures 1
- Clippings 1
- College presidents -- Inauguration 1
- Communism in education -- Pennsylvania 1
- Curricula 1
- Deans (Education) 1
- Degrees, Academic 1
- Draft 1
- Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Alumni and alumnae 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 -- Commencements 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 -- Public relations 1
- Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Sports 1
- Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Student housing 1
- Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Students 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 University -- History 1
- Faculty papers 1
- Financial records 1
- Fraternal organizations 1
- Labor -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
- Minutes 1
- Newsletters 1
- Philadelphia (Pa.) 1
- Photographs 1
- Professional education. 1
- Promotional materials 1
- Reports 1
- School records 1
- Souvenir programs 1
- Speeches 1
- Student activities 1
- Student government 1
- Students, Foreign 1
- Subversive activities 1
- Veterans -- Education -- United States 1
- War and education 1
- Yearbooks 1 ∧ less
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