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Drexel University (33)

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Drexel University. Office of the President. (4)

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In 1965, the Drexel Institute of Technology first formulated a policy on patents resulting from research by Drexel employees and students. Around 1970, a Patent Advisory Committee was established to review and make recommendations regarding cases where patent ownership was unclear. The Patent Advisory Committee was first appointed, and later chaired, by the vice president for academic affairs. In the early 1970s, this responsibility was transferred to the assistant to the president....

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Drexel University. Dept. of Athletics. (3)

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Athletic competition began informally at Drexel in 1892, when students organized their own intramural games. By 1896, an athletic association for men's sports had been formed; the women's athletic association would form later, around 1908. Athletics first received funding from the school under the tenure of Hollis Godfrey in 1914. In 1920, the Drexel Institute hired its first full-time paid coach, W.J. McAvoy, to coach men's competitive sports. Originally governed by a faculty council, athlet...

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Drexel University. University Faculty. (1)

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The first faculty council was established by President Kenneth G. Matheson in 1922 and consisted of the president, institute administrators such as deans and program directors, and department heads. Matheson's successor, Parke R. Kolbe, increased the council's membership to all with the rank of professor in 1932 or 1933. This expanded Faculty Council's name was changed to "Institute Faculty" in 1947, and later to "University Faculty" in 1970. A smaller governing committee called the Committee...

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Drexel University. Microcomputing Program. (1)

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In 1983, Drexel University launched its microcomputing program, requiring freshmen to buy or have access to Apple Macintosh computers. With this program, Drexel became one of the first colleges in the nation to require students to purchase personal computers. The Macintoshes served as the backbone of an effort coordinated by the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs to integrate computers into the curriculum throughout Drexel's colleges. In 1984 Drexel became part of the Apple Uni...

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Drexel University. Faculty Council. (1)

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Drexel University. Office of University Relations. (1)

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The early beginnings of the Office of University Relations can be found in 1927, when Willis T. Spivey, director of the Evening School, took on the role of director of publicity. He was joined in 1928 by a publicity secretary, Irma Schultz, who became director of public relations in 1939. In 1948, the public relations office came under the purview of Drexel's first vice president, Allen T. Bonnell. Public relations moved briefly to the development office around 1965, until Ralph Bintzer becam...

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Drexel University. Office of University Relations. (1)

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Drexel University. Board of Trustees. (1)

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The board of trustees of the Drexel Institute was established in 1891 with the school's founder, Anthony J. Drexel, as its president and his business partner, George W. Childs, as vice president. The institute was also governed by a separate board of managers, which merged with the existing board into a 24-member board of trustees when Drexel was incorporated in 1894. The executive committee was formed at the time of incorporation as a six-person standing committee entrusted with "the general...

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Drexel University. Placement Services Center. (1)

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Drexel's first placement office opened in 1951 as an office of the Department of Industrial Coordination, providing placement services for students in the schools of engineering, business administration, engineering, and library science. Graduate Placement became an independent office in 1956. Its responsibilities included maintaining lists of available positions for students and alumni, keeping credentials files on students and alumni, arranging job interviews, recommending qualified student...

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