Berea College
Organization
Found in 363 Collections and/or Records:
Papers of College Deans and Vice Presidents
Collection
Identifier: RG 04-4.0
Abstract
At Berea College the responsibility for the overall curriculum rests with the College Faculty under the leadership of the President and the Academic Vice President and Dean of the Faculty.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1904-2010
Peace and Social Justice Program
Collection — RG 6 Box 2 Oversized
Identifier: RG 06-6.53
Abstract
Records of the Peace and Social Justice Program of Berea College.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 2005-2014
Peace Corp Volunteer Training Project-Senegal
Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.15
Abstract
In contract with the U.S. Peace Corps, in June and August of 1963, Berea College provided training for forty Peace Corp Volunteers to serve in Senegal while undertaking projects in rural community development, English education, and physical Education. Associate Dean Kenneth H. Thompson served as Berea's Peace Corp Project Director and Dr. James R. Bobbitt served as the Program Studies Coordinator and Assistant Project Director.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1961-1966
Perley F. Ayer Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0022 SAA 021
Abstract
Perley F. Ayer, a native of New Hampshire, was educated at the University of New Hampshire (B.S.1922) and Cornell University (M.S. 1947). Prior to coming to Berea in 1947, he had been employed as an extension agent in New Hampshire and as an instructor at Pleasant Hill Academy in Pleasant Hill, Tennessee. He worked at Berea College as supervisor of an agricultural training program in the Foundation School, as a field representative for the Admissions office, and as an instructor in...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1952-1968
Phi Kappa Phi records
Collection
Identifier: RG 07-7.05
Abstract
Records of the Berea College chapter or Phi Kappa Phi.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found within 1951-1990
Philosophy and Religion Program
Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.31
Abstract
Records of the Philosophy and Religion Program at Berea College.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: Majority of material found within 1866-2016
Photographs utilized in Berea College: An Illustrated History by Shannon H. Wilson
Collection
Identifier: BC PH-IH
Abstract
Published in 2006 by the University Press of Kentucky, Shannon Wilson's Berea College: An Illustrated History contains facts and numerous photographs depicting campus life throughout Berea's long history.
Dates:
1865-2000
Physics Department
Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.18
Abstract
Records of the Berea College Physics Department. This collection also includes early records of the college's Science Department.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1950-1980
Pine Mountain (Kentucky) Community Study Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0023 SAA 022
Abstract
The study was proposed in 1949 by Berea College president, Francis S. Hutchins, then a trustee of Pine Mountain Settlement School. The school's boarding high school had closed that year and elementary programs merged with the Harlan County school system. It was concluded that a socio-economic study of the area would be useful in identifying possible new areas of service for the school to pursue. Giffin's study was never published in its entirety, though he did use data from the study to...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1948-1965
Pine Mountain Settlement School Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0011 SAA 010
Abstract
Pine Mountain Settlement School was founded in 1913, by Katherine Pettit and Ethel de Long. The two women received ninety-five acres of land from William Creech for the purpose of providing educational opportunities for the people of the Pine Mountain area of Harlan County, Kentucky.
Petit and de Long modeled their program after Jane Adam’s Hull House in Chicago. They hoped that their modern ideas about health, nutrition, work efficiency, farm management, and the cultural value of...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1913-2011
Additional filters:
- Type
- Collection 351
- Digital Record 6
- Unprocessed Material 3
- Archival Object 3
- Subject
- Students, college -- Berea College 81
- Berea (Ky.) 58
- Education, higher -- Administration 48
- 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
- Berea College 7
- 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
- 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
- Berea College -- Academic Vice President 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
- Navy V-12 Program (U.S.). 3
- Rural schools -- Kentucky -- History. 3
- Students, Foreign. 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
- 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 -- Curricula. 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
- 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 + ∧ less
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