Building Drexel : the university and its city, 1891-2016 / edited by Richardson Dilworth and Scott Gabriel Knowles.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2017.
  • ©2017
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xxvii, 423 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

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    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    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
    • 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.
    ISBN
    • 9781439914205 ((hardback ; : alk. paper))
    • 1439914206 ((hardback ; : alk. paper))
    • 1439914222 ((ebook))
    • 9781439914229 ((ebook))
    LCCN
    2016022122
    OCLC
    967524802
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