Berea College -- Faculty
Organization
Found in 98 Collections and/or Records:
Emily Ann Smith Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.45
Abstract
Emily Ann Smith served as a Berea College Faculty member from 1930 until 1986 which included her tenure as secretary to the President, English professor, and Chairman of the English Department.
Smith, a native of Mayfield, KY, graduated from Randolph-Macon Women’s College in 1925 and Columbia Teachers College in 1930. In the summer of 1930, she moved to Berea to assume duties in the English Department as an associate professor. Smith remained a member of the English Department for forty-two...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1930-1987
English, Theatre and Communications Department
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG 06-6.21
Abstract
Records of the Berea College English, Theatre and Communications Department
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1920-2023
Euphemia K. Corwin Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.10
Abstract
Euphemia Corwin was born on June 26, 1863, the only daughter of Dutch Reformed Minister E.T. Corwin. She grew up with her younger brother Charles in Paramus, New Jersey. "Effie", Charles' nickname for her, came from a religiously centered and close knit family. She was educated at Mt. Holyoke College (1881-1882) and became a teacher in North Plainfield, New Jersey (1882-1886). After teaching, she became cataloger at the Utica, New York Public Library
(1886-1887). In 1887, Miss Corwin...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1863-1992; Other: Majority of material found in 1878-1903
Executive Council
Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.22
Abstract
Having just been constituted, the first meeting of the Executive Council was held in President Stephenson's office on February 20, 1989.
At Berea College the Executive Council is charged to oversee campus governance; to identify what issues need governance attention; to prioritize policy and governance issues; to charge standing Committees and to form and charge ad hoc teams as necessary; to set agendas for College Faculty Assembly and General Faculty Assembly meetings; and to perform other...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1989-2001
Faculty Advisory Council of Berea College
Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.09
Abstract
First meeting in 1939, the Faculty Advisory Council (often called Adivsory Council) was established to provide a democratic means of communication on matters of mutual interest to several faculties, the Labor Group, the President, and the Board of Trustees. Membership on the council included the President, academic Deans, three elected members from each of the Faculties (Upper, Lower, and Foundation), and three elected members from the Labor Group. Elisabeth Peck and May B. Smith were the...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1924-1984
Faculty and Staff Records (Unofficial)
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.00
Abstract
Unofficial, non-academic records maintained for reference purposes on a number of current and past staff members, faculty, and trustees. Included in this collection are files on many of the first faculty and staff members of the College.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1858-
Faculty Club of Berea College
Collection
Identifier: RG 07-7.08
Abstract
The Berea College Faculty Club officially organized in October of 1917 after years of informal gatherings by faculty members. The first meeting of the club was held in Ladies Hall; however, at the first meeting, it was decided that the Loom House on Jackson Street would be the most desirable meeting place (with approval of the Prudential Committee). The purpose of the Club was to promote social pleasure and good fellowship among its members. Early records of the club refer to the...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1917-1978
Faculty Mentoring Program
Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.34
Abstract
From 1997 to 1999, through a Mentoring Grant bestowed by the Lilly Fellows Program in Humanities and the Arts, the Berea College Faculty Mentoring Program engaged faculty, in two cohorts, with the goals of helping them to: work to build community and collegiality; explore common concerns relating to teaching, student-teacher relationships, and collaborative teaching experiences; engage in conversations about the College's Christian commitment; and explore the ethos of Berea College.
The...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1997-1999
Florence Ridgeway Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.39
Abstract
Born in 1876, Florence Ridgeway attended Berea College from 1905-1907 before obtaining a degree from the Western Reserve University of Library Science in 1909. Upon receiving her library science degree, she returned to Berea where she worked as an assistant librarian at the Berea College library for over twenty-three years. She was a pioneer in librarianship working with others to compile Berea's "Mountain Collection" (the first of its kind in the United States) and instituting Kentucky's...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1919-1929
Francis S. Hutchins Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 03-3.05
Abstract
Francis Stephenson Hutchins (b. 1902), a native of Northfield, Massachusetts, was educated at Oberlin College (A.B., 1923) and Yale University (M.A., 1933). Having worked in China as an undergraduate, Hutchins returned to China as an instructor in 1925 as part of the Yale-in-China Association's educational mission. Forced to leave China in 1939 during the Japanese invasion, Hutchins was appointed president of Berea College to succeed his father—William J. Hutchins. Hutchins served as...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1924-1979
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- Berea College -- Affiliated Schools -- Academy School 4
- Madison County (Ky.) -- History. 4
- Oral history -- Berea College (Ky). 4
- Oral history interview. 4
- Oral history. 4
- Folk music -- Appalachian Region. 3
- Mathematics -- Study and teaching. 3
- Mathematics. 3
- Philosophy and religion. 3
- Students, Foreign. 3
- American poetry. 2
- Appalachian Region -- Economic Conditions. 2
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- History. 2
- Berea (Ky.) -- Race relations. 2
- Berea College -- Affilliated Schools -- Junior High School 2
- Berea College -- Berea College Faculty Club 2
- Drama -- Production and direction. 2
- Education, Higher -- Appalachian Region -- History. 2
- Hand weaving -- Appalachian Region -- History. 2
- Hand weaving. 2
- Kentucky -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century. 2
- Librarians. 2
- Music -- Instruction and study. 2
- Photograph collections. 2
- Religion. 2
- Sociology. 2
- Southern States -- Race relations. 2
- Women college students 2
- Abolitionists -- Kentucky -- Biography 1
- African American history. 1
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century. 1
- African Americans -- Civil rights. 1
- African Americans -- Education -- Kentucky. 1
- African Americans. 1
- Alumni Memorial Building. 1
- Antislavery movements -- Kentucky. 1
- Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources. 1
- Appalachia -- Education. 1
- Appalachian Region -- Social conditions -- History. 1
- Appalachian Region -- Social life and customs. 1
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Religious life and customs. 1
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Social life and customs. 1
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- History -- 20th century. 1
- Appalachian Region, Southern. 1
- Art -- Study and teaching. 1
- Artisans -- Kentucky. 1
- Artisans. 1
- Ballads, English -- Appalachian Region. 1
- Banjo music -- Kentucky. 1
- Berea (Ky.) -- Genealogy. 1
- Berea (Ky.) -- History. 1
- Berea College -- Buildings -- Fairchild Hall 1
- Berea College -- Buildings -- Howard Hall 1
- Berea College -- Buildings -- Windswept 1
- Berea College -- Curriculum guides 1
- Berea College -- Student Health Services 1
- Bluegrass festivals -- Kentucky. 1
- Bluegrass music -- Kentucky. 1
- Camping. 1
- Carillons. 1
- Children's songs, English. 1
- China -- Description and travel. 1
- China -- Education. 1
- China -- Missionaries. 1
- China -- Politics. 1
- Christian Identity. 1
- Civil rights -- United States -- History. 1
- Civil rights movements. 1
- College and school drama. 1
- College integration -- Kentucky -- Berea -- History -- 19th century. 1
- College teachers. 1
- College teaching -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. 1
- College theater. 1
- College trustees. 1
- Computer programming. 1
- Computer science -- Study and teaching. 1
- Computer science. 1
- Congregationalism -- Periodicals. 1
- Country music. 1
- Course Offerings. 1
- Day Law (Kentucky). 1
- Debates and debating. 1
- Decorative arts -- Kentucky. 1
- Decorative arts. 1
- Disarmament. 1
- Education -- Appalachian Region, Southern. 1
- Education -- Curricula. 1
- Education -- Kentucky -- History. 1
- Education -- Study and teaching 1
- Education, Higher -- Segregation. 1
- Education, higher -- Afro-Americans. 1
- Educational exchanges 1
- English language -- Study and teaching. 1
- Eurythmics. 1
- Fiddle tunes -- Appalachian Region. 1
- Fiddle tunes -- Kentucky. 1 + ∧ less
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