Berea College
Organization
Found in 359 Collections and/or Records:
Clara Chassell Cooper Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.65
Abstract
Clara Chassell Cooper (1893–1993), an author of several books and psychologist, served as Head of the Berea College Department of Psychology from 1951 to 1961. Cooper is perhaps best known in Berea College history as the originator and librettist of the Children of God Oratorio.
Cooper (and twin sister, Laura) were born in Sundance, Wyoming to Reverend Olin B. Chassell and Ella Buckingham Chassell. She graduated from Cornell College with a B.A., earned a...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1950-1993
College, Academy, and Foundation Faculty
Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.01
Abstract
Official records of the Berea College, Academy, and Foundation faculty including meeting minutes and agendas, curriculum reviews and committee notes, reports, memoranduc, and general faculty information.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1868 -
Commencement Ceremonies
Collection
Identifier: RG 11-11.15
Abstract
Materials and records regarding Berea College commencement ceremonies including graduate lists, notices, clippings, commencement and baccalaureate programs, and audio-visual recordings.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1858-
Committee for the March on Montgomery
Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.29
Abstract
On Thursday, March 25, 1965, fifty-eight Berea College student, faculty and staff joined 25,000 other demonstrators in the last phase of the March on Montgomery from Selma, Alabama. The trip made by students and other members of the college was neither officially recognized by the College or endorsed by the Student Association Senate.
Berea's participation in the march was organized by a committee of students which organized in response to a controversial letter from the Associate Dean of...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1965-1989; Other: Majority of material found in 1965
Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure
Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.33
Abstract
The Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure, working with the Berea College Chapter of the American Association of University Professors, first formulated a statement on academic freedom and tenure for the College in 1965. In April 1968, the Recommended Statement on Academic Freedom was approved by the College Faculty and adopted by the Board of Trustees. The committee continued to make recommendations on overall policy to be referred to the College Faculty for action.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1965-1991
Committee on Professional Growth
Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.42
Abstract
The Committee on Professional Growth was charged with supporting the professional growth of Berea College faculty through funding scholarship and research of individual faculty members and providing professional development opportunities to individuals and the faculty as a whole.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1970-1993
Committee on Student Life (1968-1969)
Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.17
Abstract
In April 1968, President Willis D. Weatherford appointed an ad-hoc committee with the charge of studying various aspects of student life at Berea and recommending to the Cabinet and Faculty modifications and improvements in current policies and practices (including judicial procedures). The Committee on Student Life included student members and served under the chairmanship of Martha Pride. Committee work resulted in a final report containing recommendations for a revised system of rules and...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1968-1969
Committee on the Freshman Year
Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.35
Abstract
Appointed in November 1989, the Committee on the Freshman Year was tasked with reviewing Berea's current student orientation programming and the planning of an improved orientation experience that would extend throughout the freshman year. The original committee was chaired by Gail Wolford. Members included John Bolin, Connie Woods, Ron Shaheed, Katrina Shaner, and Barbara Wade.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1988-1994
Committee Records (General)
Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.01
Abstract
Records of Berea College committees (often ad hoc or short term) that may not be directly or solely sponsored by a division of the college on a continuing basis.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1940s-2010
Committee to Review the Commitments (CRC)
Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.05
Abstract
Under President John Stephenson, Berea College undertook the first systematic review of the Great Commitments of Berea College in the 1992-1993 academic year. The Committee to Review the Commitments (CRC) took an in-depth review of the Commitments resulting in a report containing a recommended restatement of the commitments (or mission statement). The Berea Board of Trustees adopted the recommended restatement of the Great Commitments on April 24, 1993.
The motivation for the review of the...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1992-1993
Additional filters:
- Type
- Collection 352
- Archival Object 3
- Unprocessed Material 2
- Digital Record 2
- Subject
- Students, college -- Berea College 81
- Berea (Ky.) 58
- Education, higher -- Administration 46
- Appalachian Region. 21
- Berea College -- Affiliated Schools -- Academy School 11
- Oral history. 9
- Madison County (Ky.) -- History. 8
- Oral history -- Berea College (Ky). 8
- Oral history interview. 8
- Abolitionists 6
- Berea (Ky.) -- Race relations. 6
- Oral history -- Appalachian region. 6
- Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources. 5
- Science -- Study and Teaching 5
- African Americans -- Education -- Kentucky. 4
- Appalachian Region -- Economic Conditions. 4
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- History. 4
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- History -- 20th century. 4
- Kentucky Day Law. 4
- Students -- Societies, etc. 4
- Students, Afro-American -- Berea College 4
- Students, Foreign. 4
- African American history. 3
- African Americans -- Appalachian Region. 3
- Antislavery movements -- Kentucky. 3
- Appalachian Region -- Race relations. 3
- Appalachian Region -- Social conditions -- History. 3
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Study and teaching. 3
- Art -- Study and teaching. 3
- Berea (Ky.) -- Newspapers. 3
- Education, Higher -- Appalachian Region -- History. 3
- Hand weaving -- Appalachian Region -- History. 3
- Hand weaving. 3
- Industrial arts -- Study and teaching. 3
- Kentucky -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century. 3
- Rural schools -- Kentucky -- History. 3
- Temperance. 3
- United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century -- Sources. 3
- Abolitionists -- Correspondence 2
- Adult education 2
- African Americans -- Appalachian Region -- History. 2
- African Americans -- Civil rights. 2
- African Americans. 2
- American poetry. 2
- Appalachia -- Education. 2
- Appalachian Region -- Social life and customs. 2
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Periodicals. 2
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Social life and customs. 2
- Appalachian Region, Southern. 2
- Basketball -- Kentucky -- Berea. 2
- Berea (Ky.) -- History. 2
- Berea College -- Academic Vice President 2
- Civil rights movements. 2
- College students -- Research. 2
- Computer programming. 2
- Day Law (Kentucky). 2
- Debates and debating. 2
- Drama -- Production and direction. 2
- Education -- Kentucky -- Harlan County 2
- Education -- Kentucky -- History. 2
- Education -- Study and teaching 2
- Folk and music festivals. 2
- Folk art -- Appalachian Region, Southern. 2
- Folk dancing. 2
- Folk music -- Appalachian Region. 2
- Geography -- Study and teaching. 2
- Geography. 2
- Geology -- Study and teaching. 2
- Geology. 2
- Goodell, Clarissa Cady. 2
- Handweaving -- Patterns. 2
- Home economics -- Study and teaching. 2
- Latin language -- Study and teaching. 2
- Librarians. 2
- Madison County (Ky.) -- Newspapers. 2
- Maps. 2
- Mathematics -- Study and teaching. 2
- Medical care -- Kentucky. 2
- Minorities -- Education -- United States. 2
- Music -- Appalachian Region. 2
- Music -- Instruction and study. 2
- Navy V-12 Program (U.S.). 2
- Oratory -- Competitions. 2
- Philosophy and religion. 2
- Physical education and training -- Study and teaching (Higher). 2
- Pine Mountain Settlement School (Pine Mountain, Ky.) 2
- Religion. 2
- Sociology. 2
- Southern States -- Race relations. 2
- Student activities. 2
- Student government. 2
- Student handbook 2
- Students -- Political activity. 2
- Students, Foreign -- Kentucky -- Berea. 2
- Teacher -- Training of 2
- Universities and colleges -- Finance. 2
- Women -- Appalachian Region. 2
- Women -- Education (Higher). 2
- Women college students 2
- World War, 1914-1918 2 + ∧ less
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