UR 1.4 Parke R. Kolbe administration records, 1932-1941 , 2 cubic feet
Parke Rexford Kolbe (1881-1942), the Drexel Institute’s fourth president, served from 1932 until his death in 1942. He was educated as a linguist and was a scholar of higher education. Before coming to Drexel, Dr. Kolbe was president of the University of Akron from 1913 to 1925 and of the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn from 1925 to 1932. The bulk of the collection consists of Dr. Kolbe’s correspondence, mostly with faculty but also including parents and students. The collection also includes copies of surveys of university faculty salaries from 1940 and 1941, as well as a brief set of records relating to the survey.