Drexel Institute of Technology -- Administration
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 7 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
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Academic Council records
Helen Tavenner records on Faculty Advisory Committee and Drexel Women's Club
Collection
Identifier: UR-06-025
Scope and content note
This collection consists of the records of registrar Helen Tavenner in relation to her membership of the Faculty Advisory Committee and her presidency of the Drexel Women's Club from 1948-1949. This collection is divided into two series.The first series, Drexel Women's Club 1947-1958, contains records on meetings, events, announcements and correspondence of the Women's Club members. There are also several files of Women's Club newsletters from 1948 to 1958. There is also a brief...
Dates:
1946-1958
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
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