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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dilworth, Richardson, 1971- editor.

Knowles, Scott Gabriel, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drexel University--History.

Drexel University.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 423 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2017.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Building Drexel.

ISBN:

9781439914205

1439914206

1439914222

9781439914229

OCLC:

967524802