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  • McMichael Students holding up posters as a thank you for Promise Neighborhood grant

    Drexel and Philadelphia Awarded Multi-Million, Multi-Year Promise Neighborhood Grant

    December 21, 2016

    Drexel University President John Fry, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney, Superintendent William Hite, PhD, community members and area elected officials gathered at Morton McMichael Elementary School on Dec. 21 to officially announce that the community surrounding Drexel in West Philadelphia has won the 2016 Promise Neighborhoods Program Implementation Grant Competition. Drexel was the lead applicant of the grant, on which the City of Philadelphia, The School District of Philadelphia and several other area groups and non-profits also partnered.

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  • President John A. Fry speaks at a lecture on Drexel's history

    Drexel's History Is Alive in the Present, President John A. Fry Says at Lecture

    December 05, 2016

    The University's leader looked forward while keeping an eye on the past at a lecture on the first 125 years of Drexel history and its next 25.

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