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Rural School Improvement Project (RSIP)

 Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.03
Abstract The Rural School Improvement Project (RSIP), implemented by Berea College, began its planning in the spring of 1952.  Financed by a grant from the Fund for the Advancement of Education, the project officially began in 1953.  The project was based on two principles:  (1) good schools make for good communities and (2) good teachers are indispensable for good schools.  Implementation of the project primarily took place in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky. Project objectives included...
Dates: Other: Majority of material found in 1953-1959
Found in: Berea College Special Collections and Archives

Ruth Cranston papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: BCA 0223-HC 48
Abstract

This collection contains several manuscripts, biographical material, and letters written to author Ruth Cranston (1887 -1956).

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1908-1957; Other: Date acquired: 11/01/1957
Found in: Berea College Special Collections and Archives

Samuel Hanson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 01-1.08
Abstract

These are the papers of Samuel Hanson who is associated with the founding and early history of the College.

Dates: Other: Dummy Date
Found in: Berea College Special Collections and Archives

Samuel McDowell Tate Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0100 SAA 100
Abstract Samuel McDowell Tate (September 6, 1830- June 25, 1897) born in Morganton, NC, was described as a “quiet, old-fashioned Jeffersonian Democrat; sound, logical, practical, and worthy to be carefully considered.” (The Legislative Biographical Sketchbook of 1883.) After his father, who had represented Burke County in both houses of North Carolina’s General Assembly, died in 1836, Samuel attended private schools in North Carolina and Pennsylvania. After graduating, he was successful in...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1811-1941
Found in: Berea College Special Collections and Archives

Scenario Planning Taskforce: Academic Restructuring

 Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.06
Abstract

The Scenario Planning Taskforce (SPT) was created in response to the 2008 market performance that significantly impacted Berea College's endowment. The taskforce was charged with developing two to four scenarios of academic restructuring that would honor Berea's core mission including no undergraduate tution while fitting within a reduced budget for the 2011-2012 academic year.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 2008-2010
Found in: Berea College Special Collections and Archives

Scholarship Committee

 Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.43
Abstract

Committee, headed by Dean of Faculty and comprised of other faculty members and Deans, responsible for a number of procedural matters and decisions regarding student academics including: academic appeals, suspensions, reinstatements, and probations; academic dishonesty and plagarism hearings; grade change requests; grading and honors; other. Separate Lower and Upper Divison Committees existed until April 1947.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1927-1989
Found in: Berea College Special Collections and Archives

Cecelia Kunath Schutte collection

 Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.25
Abstract

Collection of materials of Cecelia Kunath Schutte.

Dates: Other: Majority of material found within 1916; Other: Date acquired: 10/30/1998
Found in: Berea College Special Collections and Archives

Scientists and Engineers for Appalachia Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0064 SAA 064
Abstract On June 22, 1969, several alumni and faculty of Berea College met at Boone Tavern in Berea, Kentucky, to consider how Dr.  Waldemar Noll's memory might be perpetuated through action.  Dr.  Noll, who died in 1968, had served as chairman of the physics department from its inception in the 1920s until his retirement in 1961.   Growing from this beginning (The 1969 meeting), Scientists and Engineers for Appalachia was formally organized in late April, 1970, on the campus of Berea College.  The...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1969-1979
Found in: Berea College Special Collections and Archives

Scott E. Antes mechanical drawings of musical instruments

 File — Container: Map case 2, drawer 11
Identifier: 9786
Content Description

Eight published blueprints detailing the construction of banjos and dulcimers:

1-2. Mt. Chart 709 and 710 - Fretless Banjo (Mountain style, improved), BBP-07, 1976 April 5
3-4. Mt. Chart 711 and 712 - 5-String Banjo, BBP-01, 1974 August 27
5-6. Mt. Chart 713 and 714 - Hammered Dulcimer (with bass), not dated, HDP-01
7-8. Mt. Chart 715 and 716 - Mountain Dulcimer, MDP-01, 1974-1977

Dates: 1974 - 1977
Found in: Berea College Special Collections and Archives

Second Nature Recycling Collection

 Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: BCA 0204 HC 29
Scope and Contents

Promotional flyers, contact lists, and financial records documenting Second Nature Recycling, a Berea community organization that sought to raise public awareness of the need for a community waste recycling plan.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1981-1987
Found in: Berea College Special Collections and Archives

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