Berea College
Organization
Found in 46 Collections and/or Records:
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
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
George Norton Ellis Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 04-4.04
Abstract
George Norton Ellis, three-year Professor of Latin, Dean of College Faculty, and Regent (during the absence of President William G. Frost) of Berea College.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1908-1912
Institutional Self-Evaluation of Title IX Requirement
Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.46
Abstract
In 1976 Berea College underwent an institutional self-evaluation with regard to sex discrimination as required by regulations under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. A committee of twenty-two staff and faculty members were charged with the review. This small collection contains materials and documents created as a result of this review.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1976
John Bell Stephenson Papers, 1984-1994
Collection
Identifier: RG 03-3.07
Abstract
John Bell Stephenson (1937-1994) was born in Staunton, Virginia, to Louis Stephenson and Edna Moles Stephenson. Stephenson earned a B.A. in sociology in 1959 from the College of William and Mary and his M.A. in sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1961. From 1961 until 1964 hetaught at Lees-McRae College in Banner Elk, North Carolina, where he met and married his colleague Jane Ellen Baucom. During his time in Banner Elk, John Stephenson developed a passion to...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1984 - 1994
Karl T. Waugh Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 04-4.03
Abstract
Karl T. Waugh was born to missionary parents in Cawnpore, India, in 1879, and attended primary and secondary schools in both India and the United States. He graduated from Ohio Wesleyan (1900) and Harvard (1906) and taught at Harvard before going on to teach at the University of Chicago and Beloit College. In 1917, Waugh joined the Army at the rank of Major and much of his work during this time focused on developing and implementing an intelligence-testing program to aid in recruit training...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1919-1923
Kenneth Thompson Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 04-4.06
Scope and Contents
The papers of Kenneth Thompson is a small collection of records including biographical material, memoranda, materials from Thompson's tenure as both Dean of Men and Associate Dean, and records regarding the March on Montgomery (March 1965) including statements made by the College regarding students planning to attend the march. Also included in the papers are a collection of Dean's Committee Meeting Minutes (1955-1958) and Thompson's records from his work with Pine Mountain Settlement...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1949-1981
Larry D. Shinn Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 03-3.08
Abstract
Larry Shinn (born January 16, 1942) served as president of Berea College from 1994 to 2012. Prior to this appointment he was Vice-President of Academic Affairs, Dean of Humanities and Head of the Religious Studies Department at Bucknell University. Shinn also taught at Oberlin College for fourteen years prior to his work at Bucknell. He earned his B.A Degree from Baldwin-Wallace College, his Masters of Divinity from Drew Theological School, and his PhD in the History of Religions from...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1994-2012
Lilly Committee
Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.25
Abstract
The Lilly Committee was tasked with researching and writing a proposal for a grant of the Lilly Endowment to improve racial and ethnic diversity and campus climate.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1991
Long Range Planning Committees
Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.18
Abstract
See Arrangement Notes
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1969-1987
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- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- History -- 20th century. 4
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- Appalachian Region, Southern -- History. 2
- Berea College -- Affiliated Schools -- Academy School 2
- Education, Higher -- Appalachian Region -- History. 2
- Kentucky Day Law. 2
- Madison County (Ky.) -- History. 2
- African Americans -- Appalachian Region. 1
- Appalachia -- Description and travel. 1
- Appalachian Region -- Economic Conditions. 1
- Appalachian Region -- History 1
- Appalachian Region -- Social conditions -- History. 1
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Study and teaching. 1
- Berea College -- Affilliated Schools -- Junior High School 1
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Churches, Presbyterian 1
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Marriage records 1
- Canada -- Clergy, Baptist. 1
- China -- Description and travel. 1
- China -- Education. 1
- China -- Missionaries. 1
- China -- Politics. 1
- Churches, Presbyterian -- Bedford Presbyterian Church. 1
- Clergy, Presbyterian -- Sermons. 1
- Computer programming. 1
- Day Law (Kentucky). 1
- Education -- Curricula. 1
- Education, Higher -- Segregation. 1
- Education, Secondary -- Standards. 1
- Education, higher -- Afro-Americans. 1
- Industrial arts -- Study and teaching. 1
- Integration -- Berea College. 1
- Latin language -- Study and teaching. 1
- Military installations -- World War I. 1
- Minorities -- Education -- United States. 1
- Navy V-12 Program (U.S.). 1
- Organizations, campus -- Phi Kappa Phi. 1
- Pine Mountain Settlement School (Pine Mountain, Ky.) 1
- Students, Afro-American -- Berea College 1
- Teachers colleges -- Accreditation -- United States. 1
- Travel, foreign -- Missionaries. 1
- United States -- Education Amendments of 1972 -- Title IX 1
- Universities and colleges -- Accreditation. 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Military life 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives 1
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