2018

October
- Employee Spotlight: Drexel Musical Chairs Edition
  
  October 12, 2018
  
  Several leadership positions have been filled by Dragons that were already part of the Drexel community.
  
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August
- Drexel President John Fry Discusses His ‘Civic Pathway’ in Community-Based Learning Class
  
  August 06, 2018
  
  Drexel President John Fry recently stopped by a classroom with student and community learners, as well as visiting Mandela Fellows, to discuss his views and efforts with civic engagement.
  
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- Drexel Purchases West Philadelphia Community Center to Expand Community Partnerships and Programming
  
  August 01, 2018
  
  Four years after the Dana and David Dornsife Center for Neighborhood Partnerships opened its doors to the Powelton and Mantua communities, Drexel University announced plans to expand the programming offered to the community with the purchase in June 2018 of the West Philadelphia Community Center.
  
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June
- Writers Room Creates Community Through Stories, Photos With Canon Project
  
  June 15, 2018
  
  Drexel University’s Writers Room celebrated the release of the program’s fourth collective work, “Anthology,” and the culmination of its year-long, writer-in-residence program, TRIPOD.
  
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March
- Heard Around Campus — March
  
  March 27, 2018
  
  A lot happened on Drexel’s campus during the last month of winter term.
  
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February
- Drexel and Partners Receive $5 Million Lenfest Foundation Grant to Accelerate Career Training for Local Residents
  
  February 16, 2018
  
  The Lenfest Foundation has awarded a three-year $5 million grant to University City District, the University City Science Center and Drexel University to accelerate career opportunities for local residents. The grant will benefit a partnership between the three organization that leverages University City's explosive economic growth to train and place unemployed West Philadelphia residents in family-sustaining jobs today, while equipping the community's workforce with the skills and certifications needed to connect to the jobs of the future.
  
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