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Building Drexel : the university and its city, 1891-2016 /

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Contributors: Dilworth, Richardson, 1971- (Editor), Knowles, Scott Gabriel, (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2017.
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Drexel University > History.
Drexel University.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
EDUCATION > Higher.
History.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Drexel at 125 and 150: Drexel, Philadelphia, and the urban ecology of higher education
  • Anthony Joseph Drexel: The evolution of a philanthropist
  • Continuous reinvention: A history of engineering education at Drexel University
  • The sciences at Drexel: Instruction, service, and research
  • Drexel's Architecture: Encounterimg the Urban Campus
  • The history of athletics and student life at Drexel University
  • The history of athletics and student life at Drexel University
  • Greek life at Drexel
  • The creative impulse: Theater, dance, music, and the artistic collections of Drexel University
  • The past and future of the library at Drexel University
  • One hundred and twenty-five years of computing and infromation education and research
  • From the business department, to the secretarial school, to the LeBow College of Business
  • Pilop '71: From home economics to design, media, and beyond in the Westphal College
  • Drexel, urban renewal and Civil Rights
  • The end of Urban renewal: Area V and Drexel's expansion into Powelton Village
  • Drexel's Vietnam War
  • The University and the urban metabolism: Environmental engineering at Drexel
  • The humanities at Drexel
  • The Pennoni Honors CVollege: Pragmatism in the pursuit
  • Drexel gains a medical school
  • Nursing and health professions: Two schools become one at Dresel
  • Continued contents note: Drexel's newest schools: Biomedical engineering, Science and health systems;' education; public health; law; entrepreneurship; and hospitality and sports managemnt
  • A decade of legal education at Drexel
  • Drexel's global reach
  • From the physical to the virtual with Drexel University online The promise of a New Century: drexel and the city science the 1970s.

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