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Recent history
In 1995 Constantine Papadakis:
 * Revitalization of flagging school by:
 * Doubling the full-time undergraduate enrollment
 * tripling freshman applications
 * quintupling the university's endowment
 * quintupling research funding

Papadakis died in 2009 - current projects of the University? John Anderson Fry President in August 2010.

Academics
Drexel University has an enrollment of 19,882 students pursing undergraduate and graduate degrees from Drexel's 13 colleges and schools. The student body represents 48 U.S. states and 103 foreign countries, and of those international students 6% are undergraduates and 11% are graduate students.

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Colleges and schools

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Drexel is composed of nine colleges, including the College of Information Science and Technology and the College of Arts and Sciences, two of the oldest colleges within Drexel; and the Drexel University College of Engineering, for which Drexel is perhaps best-known. The Goodwin College of Professional Studies offers working professionals and recent high school and college graduates practical educational programs with flexible scheduling, hands-on experiences, and career preparation. Full-time programs include (but are not limited to) Sport Management, Culinary Arts, and Applied Engineering Technology, while part-time programs include Communications & Applied Technology and Computing & Security Technology. The Bennett S. LeBow College of Business has been ranked among the top 60 in the nation for business. The Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts and Design houses Graphic Design, Interior Design, Digital Media, Architecture, Fashion Design, Photography, Visual Studies, Performing Arts, Music Industry, Entertainment & Arts Management, Film & Video, Screenwriting & Playwriting, and Dance. The Drexel University College of Medicine is a recent addition to the university. Formerly MCP Hahnemann University, it contributes two additional campuses and a teaching medical hospital, along with the College of Nursing and Health Professions and the School of Public Health. The Pennoni Honors College recognizes and promotes excellence among Drexel students.

Drexel has four schools, the newest of which was created in 2006. Originally added to Drexel University as the Drexel University College of Law, the Earle Mack School of Law was renamed on May 1, 2008 in honor of Drexel alumnus Earle I. Mack. In addition to the School of Law Drexel has schools in Education, Public Health, and Biomedical Engineering, Science & Health Systems.

Rankings
The 2009 U.S. News and World Report ranks Drexel 88th among "national universities", and 6th in the "Best Colleges: Up-and-coming National Universities". Conversely the same year The Princeton Review ranked Drexel 3rd for "Least Beautiful Campus", 7th for "Long Lines and Red Tape", 13th for "Professors Get Low Marks", and 15th for "Least Accessible Professors".

<!-- Drexel has been ranked consistently among the "Best National Universities-Top Schools" by U.S. News & World Report in its annual "America's Best Colleges". The 2009 and 2010 rankings place Drexel 88th among all universities of the United States, among the best 50 private universities in the country, and 4th on the U.S. News & World Report "Best Colleges: Up-and-coming National Universities" ranking.

Prior rankings had Drexel placed 108th and 109th consecutively. In the 2006 edition of U.S. News & World Report, Drexel University is ranked the #109 university in the National Universities Doctoral category and the LeBow College of Business is ranked #99. The publication also ranked Drexel's College of Engineering's undergraduate program 57th among engineering schools that award doctoral degrees. In 2007, Business Week ranked the undergraduate business program among the top 30 private institutions in the country. The 2009 rankings rate the LeBow business program as the 38th best in the nation. The Department of Materials Science and Engineering was ranked 10th in the US in faculty scholarly productivity in 2006. The Princeton Review also named Drexel 6th on their list of "2010 Top Entrepreneurial Programs: Undergraduate". Additionally, Sierra magazine, the publication of the Sierra Club, selected Drexel as one of America's "Cool Schools." Drexel was 82nd out of 135 institutions on the publication's third annual poll of "eco-enlightened" colleges and universities. To compile the list, Sierra sent questionnaires to sustainability experts at schools across the country. The survey featured categories such as efficiency, energy, food, academics, purchasing, transportation, waste management and administration

The iSchool at Drexel, College of Information Science and Technology has been ranked among the top 10 information schools in the nation by US News & World Report. Its specialties in Library and Information Science (MS), Information systems (MSIS), Medical Librarianship, and Digital Librarianship are ranked ninth, fifth, fifth and ninth respectively. .

Drexel frequently ranks among the top 25 schools in the nation for technology use according to The Princeton Review and The Intel Corporation, and was ranked first in 2001 for wireless access by Yahoo!. The Drexel College of Medicine and College of Nursing & Health Professions also share accolades. The Physician Assistant program is in the nation's top 50 and the Nurse Anesthesia (CRNA) program is in the top 25.

Not all of its rankings are positive, however. The Princeton Review ranked Drexel 3rd for "Least Beautiful Campus," 8th for "Long Lines and Red Tape" and 15th for "Least Accessible Professors." Radar Magazine also ranked Drexel's campus as the ugliest in the nation. However, in recent years, greater strides have been taken to beautify the campus and these efforts are starting to show. The new buildings are built "green" and have helped earn Drexel the selection of one of 286 colleges and universities to be included in the Princeton Review’s “Guide to 286 Green Colleges.” Published in partnership with the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), this is the first free, comprehensive guidebook focused solely on colleges and universities that have demonstrated an above average commitment to sustainability activities and initiatives. Guide based on the “Green Rating” scores schools received in the summer of 2009 when the Princeton Review published its Green Rating scores for 697. The 286 schools in the Guide received scores in the 80th or higher percentile. Drexel received a Green Ranking of 94.

The Math Forum@Drexel has been selected as one of the most useful websites by PC Magazine and Scientific American. -->

Online education
Drexel has offered online degrees since 1996 and in 2002 created its online education program, Drexel Online, to further meet the need of working adults. Accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, Drexel Online has won the 2008 United States Distance Learning Association's Best Practices Awards for Distance Learning Programming. In 2007 the online education program had a revenue of $40 million, and in 2010 had 8,000 students and offered almost 90 total certificates, undergraduate, and graduate degrees.

University City campus
Drexel's main campus is located within University City, an area within Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. When the university was founded in 1891 the campus consisted of the 169007 sqft Main Building, which was situated on 1 acre of land. Since then the campus has expanded to 60 acre and now borders the University of Pennsylvania.

Breakdown of the campus

Growth of the 70's, master plan now



Other facilities
January 5, 2009 Drexel opened the Center for Graduate Studies in Sacramento. "The center started with 50 students but added 124 new students by January 2010."

Student groups
Over 200 student organizations 2 paragraphs: 200 student organizations: When did student orgs start organizing on campus? Which is the oldest org if known? Percent of students who participate in orgs? Where does funding come from?

Media
Drexel has several publications to its name including a newspaper, a yearbook, and several magazines. The student run newspaper, The Triangle, has been continuously operated since its first publication on February 1, 1926. The newspaper has won several awards in Student Journalism from the Society of Professional Journalists. The Lexerd is the university's yearbook and has been published since 1911 when the class books The Hanseatic and The Eccentric were consolidated as a single university publication. Other publications include Maya, an undergraduate literary magazine founded in 1967, and the online magazine The Smart Set, formally known as DragonFire, which "aims to revive the spirit of the early 20th century literary magazine" of the same name.

Drexel also houses a television station, a radio station, and a record label. The television station, Drexel University Television (DUTV), is a public access station operated through the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts and Design's Paul F. Harron Studios. The radio station, WKDU, is a non-commercial student run public radio station operated on campus. Also operated through the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts and Design is MAD Dragon Records, an award-winning record label with a national distribution deal, the only college record label to have one.

Athletics
Drexel has 16 varsity teams as well as hosting 19 club and over 25 intramural sports. Since 1973 the varsity teams participate in the NCAA's Division I conference, where they are a part of the Colonial Athletic Association. Drexel has a 91% graduation rate for its student athletes. The athletics department has been ranked as number one in gender equity by the U.S. News & World Report.

The school's teams are called the Dragons. Prior to being called the Dragons the teams had names such as Blue & Gold, the Engineers, and the Drexelites. The dragon has been the mascot of the school since around the mid-1920's with the first written reference to the Dragons occurring in a 1928 edition of The Triangle. In the following year the men's basketball team appeared in the yearbook sporting a dragon logo. The Drexel Dragon is known as "Mario the Magnificent," named so in honor of former alumni and Board of Trustees member Mario Mascioli.

Of Drexel's varsity teams men's basketball, led by Bruiser Flint, has participated in the most NCAA tournaments. They have appeared at four Division I basketball tournaments since 1973 and prior to that had been in four Division II NCAA basketball tournaments. Two Dragon alumni, Michael Anderson and Malik Rose, have gone on to have careers within the National Basketball Association. Despite its residence in Philadelphia, the men's basketball team is not a participant in the Philadelphia Big 5. The women's basketball team won its first Colonial Athletic Association Championships in 2009 and appeared in the 2009 NCAA Basketball tournament, being eliminated in the first round. Gabriela Marginean drafted to the Minnesota Lynx In addition to Drexel's basketball program...

Greek life
There are currently 24 social fraternities and sororities that are recognized by Drexel University. There are three governing bodies for the fraternities and sororities on campus, the Multicultural Greek Council, the Interfraternity Council, and the Panhellenic Council. The Multicultural Greek Council, founded in 1995 as the Bicultural InterGreek Council, governs the eight minority Greek fraternity and sorority chapters on campus. The Interfraternity Council, founded in 1930, governs the twelve chapters of the North-American Interfraternity Conference in addition to Drexel's own fraternity, Alpha Pi Lambda. The Panhellenic Council, founded in 1926 as the Inter-Sorority Council, governs the five chapters that are a part of the National Panhellenic Conference.

The first Greek organization on record to be established at Drexel was the local fraternity Lambda Upsilon Delta in 1900. Though there were a few fraternities that were established after 1900 it was not until 1919 that the fraternity system was truly organized at Drexel. In 1919 two men's fraternities Kappa Sigma Delta, now the Alpha Upsilon chapter of Pi Kappa Phi, and Phi Kappa Beta, now the Alpha Tau chapter of Tau Kappa Epsilon, were established on campus initiating this organization. Kappa Sigma Delta and Phi Kappa Beta were followed by the women's sororities Phi Delta Nu, a now defunct chapter of Sigma Sigma Sigma, in 1921 or 1922, and Omega Delta Epsilon, now the Nu Nu chapter of Alpha Sigma Alpha, in 1922. Prior to 1940 all Greek organizations at Drexel were local establishments, after 1940 fraternities and sororities were established by national organizations. The remaining local fraternities and sororities either stayed local, or were absorbed into the larger organizations. Since the 1940s the Greek system has maintained a steady growth and in 2009 had over 1,000 members.

Every year all the social Greek organizations compete in Greek Week, a week long competition held during the spring quarter with events such as a talent show, step-stroll show, and tug of war. A week after Greek Week closes, during the Sorority and Fraternity Awards, the Dean's Cup is awarded by the Dean of Students to the highest Chapter Achievement Plan (CAP) scoring fraternity or sorority under each Greek council. The Chapter Achievement Plan is the annual recognition process for social Greek organizations which is composed of eight categories, seven of which are scored. It is unknown when or how the Dean's Cup tradition was started.

Student lore and traditions
To receive good grades on exams it is a tradition is to rub the toe of the bronze "Waterboy" statue, by Frédéric Bartholdi, located in the Main Building atrium. Although the rest of the bronze statue has developed a dark brown patina over the years, the toe has remained highly polished and shines like new.

Unresponsive treatment by the administration has been termed the "Drexel Shaft" by students. The name has also been used to identify two landmarks around the Main Campus. The first being the Flame of Knowledge, a fountain once located in the main quad, in the late 70s and early 80s. The second being a large smoke stack structure, located east of 32nd street, which was demolished in 2009.

In popular culture
Drexel has appeared in news and television media several times. In the 1998 film Enemy of the State President of the United States, Edward Lyle, is a Drexel alumnus. In 2006 Drexel served as the location for ABC Family's reality show Back on Campus. Also in that year the Epsilon Zeta chapter of Delta Zeta won ABC Daytime's Summer of Fun contest. As a result the sorority was featured in national television spots for a week and also hosted an ABC party on campus which was attended by cast members from General Hospital and All My Children.

In 2007 Drexel was the host of the 2008 Democratic Presidential candidate debate in Philadelphia, televised by MSNBC. In 2008 from January 10 to the 13th Drexel hosted the US Table Tennis Olympic Trials.

Alumni


The versatile curriculum offered by Drexel has attracted a wide range of students since its founding as a technical school in 1891 and has had over 100,000 alumni. Certificate-earning alumni such as artist Violet Oakley and illustrator Frank Schoonover reflect the early emphasis on art as part of the university's curriculum. With World War II the university's technical programs swelled and as a result Drexel graduated alumni such as Paul Baran, one of the founding fathers of the internet and one of the inventors of the packet switching network, and Norman Joseph Woodland the inventor of barcode technology. In addition to its emphasis on technology Drexel has graduated several notable athletes such as NBA basketball players Michael Anderson and Malik Rose, and several notable business people such as Raj Gupta, president and CEO of Rohm and Haas, and Kenneth C. Dahlberg, former CEO of Science Applications International Corporation.

In 1991, the university's centennial anniversary, Drexel created the Drexel 100, a hall of fame for living alumni who have "brought great honor to Drexel University" through work, philanthropy, public service, or service to the university. 100 alumni were inducted in 1992 and since then the induction process has been on a biennial basis. By 2009, 189 alumni had been inducted into the association. Alumni who have received this honor include Ramani Ayer the CEO of The Hartford, film director Susan Seidelman, former ambassador Earle I. Mack, and astronaut James P. Bagian.