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Extension Services Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.45
Abstract
Berea College's Extension Services provided short-term, informal educational programming and services, primarily in adult education, both on and off campus, to persons living in communities around Berea (including the mountain regions as far away as West Virginia). Programming included Opportunity Schools (held both on campus and in other communities), lectures, and the publication of pamphlets, bulletins and leaflets on a variety of topics.
Information regarding the Berea Opportunity...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1898-1958
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 unofficial records
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: Majority of material found in 1858-
Faculty Club of Berea College records
Collection
Identifier: RG 07-7.08
Abstract
The records of the Berea College Faculty Club.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1917-1980
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
Edward Henry (E. H.) Fairchild papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 03-3.01
Abstract
official and personal papers of Berea College's first president, Edward Henry Fairchild.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1860-1973
Farristown, Kentucky Oral History Project
Collection
Identifier: BCA 0315
Scope and Contents
This collection is comprised of twentyone audio recorded interviews conducted by Aaron Banther at various times during the period 2022 – 2025. These interviews document the African American communities of Farristown, Middletown, and Bobtown in southern Madison County near Berea, Kentucky.
Those interviewed are:
Jim Cornelison
Lamont Cornelison
Jimmy and Lois Tevis
Carolyn Walker
Sandra Price
Patricia Ballard
Felecia Ballard
Grant...
Dates:
2022-2025
Maureen Faulkner papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.21
Abstract
Personal papers of Maureen Faulkner, professor of English at Berea College (1942-1972).
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: circa 1940-1979
Federal Music Project - Eastern Kentucky Folk Song Project
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0121 SAA 121
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 131 song lyrics and tune transcriptions of songs, ballads, hymns, and fiddle tunes collected in about 1936 by Federal Music Project workers in Boyd, Floyd, and Rowan Counties in eastern Kentucky. In a few instances there are either lyrics without musical transcriptions or transcriptions without lyrics.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1936-1936
John G. Fee Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 01-1.02
Abstract
Papers and family records of John G. Fee.
Dates:
1830 - 2011