Education, Higher -- Administration
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
Academic Council records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UR-03-001
Overview
The Academic Council was established by President James Creese in 1960 to coordinate university-wide academic policies. This collection consists of the meeting minutes of the council from its founding in 1960 through 1967, as well as supplemental items such as agendas, correspondence, notes, and aggregate statistics about the student body. The material is arranged chronologically.
Dates:
1960 - 1967
Found in:
Drexel University Archives
/
Academic Council records
Alderson & Sessions Market and Management Survey collection
Collection
Identifier: UR-03-027
Scope and Contents
The collection contains rough drafts of some of the volumes, dated November and December 1955, undated volumes which are most likely drafts from late 1955, and copies of the final version, submitted April 1956. While there are duplicates of most volumes, there is no copy of the Management Phase: Statistics volume, as a rough draft or the final version. The collection also includes a small amount of material from the office of the Dean of the Faculty that relates to the Alderson...
Dates:
1955 - 1957
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
Board of Trustees committee records
Collection
Identifier: UR-02-007
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of the records of certain Drexel University Board of Trustees committees. Included are Finance Committee meeting minutes (1955-1967), Finance Committee reports (1967-1968),Finance Committee Meeting Agenda and Minutes (2000), and Buildings and Property Committee meeting minutes (1960-1967, 1993-98, 2000, 2007).
Dates:
1955-2007; Majority of material found within 1955-1968
Faculty and administrators' handbooks and guides
Collection
Identifier: UR-06-027
Scope and content note
This collection consists of handbooks intended for Drexel faculty and/or administrators, which present Drexel policies and regulations in a single systematic guide. Besides completed versions, there are also draft or interim versions, and revisions which were distributed between updated versions. Some of the guides were created by the Evening College (now Goodwin College of Professional Studies), which was administered under its own Dean until the mid-1990s. The earliest item in...
Dates:
1958 - 1990
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
Nesbitt College of Design Arts records
Collection
Identifier: UR-04-009
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of records of Nesbitt College of Design Arts and its predecessor departments from 1894-1993. The collection is divided into fourteen series: Accreditation and Teacher Certification, Administration, Associate Dean Lois Pearson, Dean Marjorie Rankin, Domestic Science Archive, Early Childhood Learning Center, Events, Fundraising, Histories, Honors Day, Kappa Omicron Nu Honors Society, Promotional Materials, Publications and Recipes. All are arranged alphabetically...
Dates:
1894-1997
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 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
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