Drexel University has received the 2023 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity in recognition of its ongoing commitment to diversity and inclusion. For Vice ...

Grant will support Drexel's Second Story Collective, an arts-centered model for intergenerational co-housing, focused on affordable homeownership in West Philadelphia The Second Story Collective (2SC) ...

Drexel University’s Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation today released Catalyzing Community Capacity: How Philadelphia Can Create Equitable Right-of-Way Stewardship, a report on how to improve the ...

When public pools and many cooling centers closed this summer due to COVID-19, Drexel University researchers teamed up with the William Penn foundation and members of the Hunting Park community to ...

To ensure Dragons make their voices heard in local and national elections, Drexel University students will not have classes on Election Day in 2024. In 2022 and 2023, students have had a shortened day ...

That health differences between neighborhoods is driven by social and economic conditions is no surprise to those in public health. As such, a new community health profile looked at both general ...

The Stephen and Sandra Sheller 11 th Street Family Health Services Center of Drexel University (11th Street) hosted “11th Street Loves to Read Day” this morning, an event that included book readings, ...

The work to secure the five-year, $30 million grant awarded Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Education to West Philadelphia as part of the Promise Neighborhoods Program began in 2011. Drexel ...

Drexel broke ground today for a major expansion of its nurse-managed health center in North Philadelphia. “When a neighborhood doesn’t have a good health care option, illness can be a barrier to every ...

While Philadelphia is plagued by a 26 percent poverty rate, it is also home to hundreds of programs, agencies and organizations that exist to help low-income and marginalized people find housing ...

Drexel University is one of 26 institutions nationwide to receive an inaugural Higher Learning Open Call grant from the Mellon Foundation in support of social justice-related research and projects.