Drexel Institute of Technology -- Development
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Campus expansion program records
Collection
Identifier: UR-10-011
Scope and content note
This collection contains building plans and proposals, booklets, memos, and newspaper articles on various Drexel University campus expansion and development programs from 1947 to 1983. Arranged chronologically.
Dates:
1947-1983
James Creese, 1950-1963
Series
Identifier: Series VII
Scope and content note
Series 7: Creese, James, 7 folders, is a small series primarily containing items which were collected during his presidency and not items directly from him. There are personnel matters, including the hiring of Kenneth G. Matheson, Junior at Drexel and other administrative issues.
Dates:
1950-1963
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 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