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 […]
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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 […]
In School and Out of Trouble: A New Effort to Engage Mantua Middle-Schoolers
“It’s like they just forget about us when we get old.” This isn’t a statement you would expect to hear from a 12-year-old boy, and yet, for hundreds of youth in the Mantua section of […]