In the midst of sexual harassment allegations, it appears that the departure of Fox News chairman Roger Ailes is imminent. Ailes, a former conservative political advisor, led the network to the top of the ratings […]
Category: Community & Society
Pat Summitt’s Legacy and the Work that Remains
By Ellen Staurowsky, Ed.D. Last week, famed college basketball coach Pat Head Summitt passed away. The celebration of her life and mourning of her loss offers an opportunity to reflect on what her career represented […]
Email Ad Campaigns May be Effective but Companies Shouldn’t Phase out Catalogues Just Yet
Consumers may spend most of their day on handheld devices with emails available at their fingertips but researchers say companies shouldn’t forget about those snail mail catalogues just yet. Eleanor McDonnell Feit, PhD, an assistant […]
Corporate Political Activism: Why Corporations are Taking Political Stands More than Ever
By Daniel Korschun Traditional wisdom holds that corporations should avoid making political statements at any cost. Companies cannot afford to alienate their customers; or so the logic goes. But something is changing in the corporate […]
Drexel Senior Product Design Students Create to Inspire Positive Societal Change
Life-like prosthetics, empowerment campaigns and tools to combat culture shock will be on display as Drexel Seniors from the Product Design program in the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design debut their senior […]
50 Years Later: How Medicare Changed Our Health System
In 1966, Medicare brought million of senior citizens health coverage as the first federal expansion of health insurance protection in the United States. The expansion became the largest of its kind in the country’s history. […]
The Wage Gap, Women & Negotiation: A Q&A with Drexel’s Lynn Yeakel and Roberta Liebenberg
Women of all ages, particularly young graduates feel an inherent hesitation to negotiate during conversations specific to a position and salary. In fact, a recent study on job negotiations of graduating professional students, found that […]
Q+A: Can Youth Sports Transform a City?
Drexel’s second annual Philadelphia Coaches Conference kicks off Monday, May 16, with an opening reception and appearance from Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney. There, the mayor will be announcing the new executive director of the Philadelphia […]
Drexel Snapshot: Student Volunteers Renovate 10 Homes in a Day for Low-Income Philadelphians
More than 100 volunteers including Drexel University students, faculty, staff and parents helped Rebuilding Together Philadelphia provide free health and safety repairs to low-income homeowners in the Mantua neighborhood of Philadelphia. The Drexel volunteers worked […]
Quick Take: Drexel’s Gambescia Testifies in Favor of Soda Tax
“A founding principle of public health measures is such policies aim to benefit all, and lowering sugar intake fits this principle at many levels. This should trump the social economy argument against the tax and […]