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Education, Cooperative -- United States

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered works dealing with the plan of instruction under which students spend alternating periods in school and in a practical occupation.

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

Day College advertising scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: UR-03-016
Scope and content note This scrapbook contains advertisements for the Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry ranging from the spring of 1923 to December 1925. It has copies of gender-specific letters sent to high schools and colleges from across the region and country advertising the library science and home economics programs as well as the cooperative program for engineering and business. This scrapbook also contains newspaper clippings pertaining to commencement ceremonies and Drexel Institute’s...
Dates: 1923-1926; Majority of material found within 1923 - 1925

Department of Cooperative Education records

 Collection
Identifier: UR-04-036
Overview

The collection consists of records of Steinbright Career Development Center and its predecessor, the Department of Cooperative Education, from 1947-2006. The collection is divided into five series: Annual Reports, Placements Statistics, Public Relations Materials, Administrative Files, and Photographs.

Dates: 1922-2006

Drexel Co-op Want Ads (periodical)

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: UR-12-015
Content Description

The Drexel Co-op Want Ads was a tabloid-format publication of the Center for Cooperative Education and Placement Services (from 1988 called the Center for CO-OPerative Education and Career Services) that listed employers and co-op positions available to Drexel students. Some issues also contained articles about the co-op experience or job search process.

Dates: 1987-1990

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

Kenneth G. Matheson administration records

 Collection
Identifier: UR-01-003
Overview This collection contains the files of Kenneth G. Matheson, president of the Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry from 1922 to 1931. As he took office, Matheson and the Institute faced many challenges, including financial difficulties, decreasing enrollments, outdated facilities, and a generally dissatisfied university community. The files contain correspondence with faculty, parents and students which documents the numerous, positive changes Matheson helped to initiate during his...
Dates: 1921-1932

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

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