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Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.13
Abstract
The Academic Program Council has comprehensive responsibility for the academic program, with specific responsibilities for curriculum, policy development, and general oversight of practices and services affecting the academic program. The Council may elect to delegate certain specific responsibilities to subcommittees or members, but all decisions with policy implications will be brought before the entire Council. The Council receives proposals from academic divisions, core course planning...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1994-2007
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.64
Abstract
Ada M. Dinkleman was born on May 22, 1881, in Madisonville (Hamilton County), Ohio. She graduated from Denison in Ohio and taught at Berea from approximately 1908-1911. in 1912, Dinkleman married Emil Bracker, who had served as the acting superintendent of the College gardens and forests during the same time that Dinkleman was faculty at Berea. Dinkleman died in January, 1984 in Illinois.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1908-1911
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.43
Abstract
Ada Simpson was born on January 25, 1861 in Carlton, New York but spent most of her early life in rural Michigan. At the age of sixteen, she obtained a teacher’s certificate and became a rural school teacher while at the same time working toward the high school diploma. She married Alva Sherwood in 1888.
In 1905 she was tragically widowed; this event marked the next phase of Sherwood’s career during which she would begin her life-long dream of higher education. Along with her son and...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1888 - 1955; Other: Majority of material found in 1912-1952
Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.21
Abstract
The Administrative Committee is responsible to the Board of Trustees and the President of the College for matters of finance, physical properties and internal management of the College. Members of the committee oversee all instructional and operating departments of the institution. The very first meeting of the Administrative Committee took place on October 5, 1937 under President Francis S. Hutchins.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1937-2005; Other: Majority of material found in 1967-2005
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.60
Abstract
Wright was the chair of Natural History at Berea College from 1870 to 1872. A few years after leaving Berea, he would be appointed professor of Geology and Natural History at Oberlin College. While at Berea College, Wright also served as the faculty meeting clerk. On September 21, 1874, he married Mary Lyon Bedortha (1846-1877), of Saratoga Springs, New York. Professor Albert Allen Wright died April 2, 1905.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1870-1871
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.52
Abstract
Dr. Alice Van Krevelan served as a guest lecturer at Berea from 1936-44, and after earning her Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Rochester, she taught at Hollins College and Grinnell College. She returned to Berea in 1961, serving as professor and chair of the psychology department until her 1980 retirement. She was elected to Sigma Xi, a society devoted to research in science, was a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, president of the Council of Undergraduate...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1970-1977
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.02
Abstract
This collection contains the papers of Margaret Belknap Allen.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1943-1991
Collection
Identifier: RG 07-7.02
Abstract
The Berea College Chapter of the AAUP formed in 1933. For much of the next three decades the goals of the organization centered on improved teaching and curriculum, presentation of faculty research, shared governance and contact with the College’s Board of Trustees, badly needed increases in faculty salaries, and clarity in policy related to tenure and academic freedom. By the mid 1970s, faculty interest dwindled and the organization essentially went defunct. By this time, many of the aims...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1933-2011
Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.40
Abstract
Records of Steve Gowler from his tenure as Associate Dean of General Studies at Berea College.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 2006-2010
Collection
Identifier: RG 14-14.11
Scope and Contents
The collection is comprised of recordings and transcripts of recordings of oral histories of Berea College faculty, staff, alumni, and current students. The project was conducted by students as part of their Oral History and Tradition course (GSTR 100) taught by Meighan Sharp in the fall of 1999. Interviews were conducted and transcribed by students....
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1999
