Corporate Profile for Drexel University, dated Sept. 8, 1995.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The following Corporate Profile is available for inclusion in your files. News releases for this client are distributed by Business Wire and also become part of the leading databases and information services See Information Systems. . These include Dow Jones Dow Jones the best known of several U.S. indexes of movements in price on Wall Street. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 202] See : Finance News/Retrieval, Bloomberg Financial Markets, Reuter Company Newsyear, Reuter Business Briefing, DataTimes, Nexis, Dialog, NewsNet, America OnLine See AOL. , CompuServe, Delphi, Individual's HeadsUp and First!, Desktop Data's NewsEdge, UMI UMI University Microfilms International UMI United States Minor Outlying Islands (ISO Country code) UMI University of Miami UMI Universal Management Infrastructure (IBM) Data Courier, NewsBank, Information Access Company and many others. -0- Published date: Sept. 8, 1995 Company name: Drexel University
Address: 3141 Chestnut St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Telephone No.: 215/895-2600 President: Dr. Constantine N. Papadakis
Public Relations
Contact: Philip Terranova, AVP
Judy Goodrobb, Asst. Dir. PR
Business number: 215/895-2705
Company description: Drexel, Philadelphia's second largest private university, is dedicated to educating women and men to live successfully in a technological world and is widely recognized for its excellence in career, professional and graduate preparation. Dr. Constantine N. Papadakis is Drexel's 11th president. The University is home to one of the nation's oldest co-operative education programs and to The Drexel Engineering Curriculum, designated a national model by the National Science Foundation. A leader in the use of technology, Drexel was the nation's first university to require that all students have personal access to a microcomputer microcomputer Small digital computers whose CPU is contained on a single integrated semiconductor chip. As large-scale and then very large-scale integration (VLSI) have progressively increased the number of transistors that can be placed on one chip, the processing capacity (Apple Macintosh Apple Macintosh - Macintosh ). Founded in 1891, the University is comprised of six colleges: Arts and Sciences, Business and Administration, Engineering, Information Science and Technology, Nesbitt College of Design Arts, and the Evening College, and offers 46 bachelor's, 39 master's and 17 doctoral programs. The University enrolls 10,000 students from some 100 nations and has more than 65,000 alumni worldwide. Drexel is one of Philadelphia's largest employers with 1,200 full- and part-time employees, including 410 full-time faculty members. The 1995-96 operating budget Noun 1. operating budget - a budget for current expenses as distinct from financial transactions or permanent improvements budget items, operating cost, operating expense, overhead - the expense of maintaining property (e.g. is approximately $131 million, and the University accounts for an estimated $440 million each year in economic activity in Pennsylvania. CONTACT: Drexel University Drexel University, at Philadelphia, Pa.; coeducational; founded 1891 by Anthony J. Drexel, opened 1892, chartered 1894 as Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry. It was renamed Drexel Institute of Technology in 1936 and gained university status in 1970. |
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