Universities and Colleges -- Pennsylvania -- Administration
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Faculty Council records
Collection
Identifier: UR-06-001
Overview
The records of the Faculty Council provide comprehensive documentation of the early activities and the nearly century long development of the Faculty Council, the elected body of representatives of the faculty of Drexel University. The Faculty Council had numerous name changes which are represented in the meeting minutes; Institute Faculty (1947) and University Faculty (1970). The materials date between 1894-1989, with a gap in materials from 1897-1902 and 1904-1912. The bulk of the...
Dates:
1894-1989; Majority of material found within 1960 - 1979
Found in:
Drexel University Archives
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Faculty Council 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