By John Fry (excerpted from Higher Education Today) For the past seven years, I’ve worked at a university that is about as far removed as possible from an ivory-tower institution. Drexel University was founded 125 […]
Category: Opinion
The Tool of Totalitarianism
By Chapin Cimino, JD Donald Trump’s appointment of Steve Bannon as a senior counselor and chief strategist is a serious wake-up call. The appointment caps off the Trump campaign’s assault on voters’ intelligence, which included […]
More Women Needed in Boardrooms Now
While diversity in the boardroom and c-suite increases each year, gender parity is far from complete, according to a recent Women on Board’s report by the Forum of Executive Women and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Despite these lackluster […]
More Steps Forward for New 30th Street District
The op-ed below by Drexel University President John A. Fry and Stephen Gardner, Amtrak’s executive vice president for infrastructure and investment development, appeared in the Nov. 16 edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer. Without even putting […]
We Need A Safe ‘Breathing Water’ Act
By Charles Haas, PhD Forty years ago next month, more than 200 cases of Legionnaires’ disease, resulting in 29 deaths, occurred at hotel hosting an American Legion conference in Philadelphia — giving the disease its […]
Brexit: What’s Next for the EU and the World Economy
Drexel University’s Marco Airaudo, PhD, an associate professor of economics in the LeBow College of Business, shared his thoughts on the United Kingdom’s recent vote to exit the European Union. Did you expect the vote […]
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 […]
The Three Dumbest Things in Tom Brady’s Cookbook
Excuse Drexel’s Nutrition Sciences department if they’re a bit skeptical of Tom Brady’s new $200, wood-bound cookbook. “It’s not a cookbook, it’s a nutrition manual,” he assured. That manual — which sold out already, despite […]
Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions: We’re Already Doing It, and It’s Not as Hard as You Think
By Patrick L. Gurian, PhD In the spring of 2014 the Mayor’s Office of Sustainability asked Drexel University’s Institute for Energy and the Environment to consider what it would take for the City of Philadelphia […]
What the Presidential Candidates Can Learn From Market Basket
By Daniel Korschun, PhD It’s been over a year since New Englanders got their favorite supermarket back. On Aug. 27, 2014, Arthur T. Demoulas, and others on his side of the family, reached the deal […]