Women -- Education (Higher)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
College of Business Administration-Advisory Committee on Retailing, 3, 1954-1959
File — Box 39: Series Series I, Folder: 3
Identifier: Sub-series K
Scope and contents note
correspondence, reports, conferences, financial, transcripts;
Dates:
1954-1959
Dean of the Faculty, 1959-1963
File — Box 37: Series Series I, Folder: 3
Identifier: Sub-series I
Scope and contents note
correspondence, drafts, reports; information related to College of Home Economics, Women at Drexel, Academic Council
Dates:
1959-1963
Hilda Stuart Wood Jacobs papers
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MC-00-017
Scope and content note
The Hilda Stuart Wood collection consists of cookbooks, a notebook, and a few photographs, ranging from 1885-1937. The eight published cookbooks contain Wood's handwritten notes and loose papers. Annotations on a few of the recipe cards refer to the collection as having belonged to previous generations, leaving the impression that the cookbooks have been passed down through the family. There is no information of a personal nature about Hilda Stuart Wood to be found within the collection. ...
Dates:
1885-1937
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
Library School scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: UR-04-026
Overview
This collection consists of seven scrapbooks that document the curriculum and operations of Drexel's Library School between the years of 1891-1914.
Dates:
1891-1914
Found in:
Drexel University Archives
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Library School scrapbooks
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
William S. Gaither administration records
Collection — Box 2
Identifier: UR-01-009
Overview
This collection consists chiefly of a set of subject files on organizations, university offices and departments, special projects, and administrative topics compiled by Drexel's ninth president, William S. Gaither. The collection also contains a record of Dr. Gaither's outgoing correspondence from June 1984 to December 1986 and a box of certificates presented to him at his inauguration held in 1985. The collection contains correspondence, memorandum, speeches, reports, memos, drafts,...
Dates:
1981-1987