President's Newsletter
Vol. 5, No. 5, October 1, 2001
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Drexel Ranked Sixth by Yahoo!
Drexel jumped 10 spots - from 16th place last year to sixth place this
year - in Yahoo! Internet Life's fifth annual "Most Wired Colleges" survey
of 1,300 U.S. colleges and universities. Drexel received the highest score
of all universities in the "Wireless Access" category.
New Web Portal Initiative Implemented
A University portal initiative will be rolled out in several stages during
the fall term. The Initiative will result in increased personal privacy,
improved Web reliability as well as greater ease for students, faculty
and staff to find and use Web-based information. The initiative is being
overseen by Dr. John A. Bielec, vice president for information resources
and technology.
The initiative encompasses three distinct projects. The first project, completed in August, is a University ID system that uses an eight-digit number for identification instead of Social Security numbers.
The second project involves implementing Documentum, a Web content management system.
The final part of the initiative involves a preview implementation of Campus Pipeline as the Web portal for Drexel and MCP Hahnemann Universities. Campus Pipeline will offer students, faculty and staff a variety of services integrated into a single sign-on and authentication.
Construction Begins on Business Complex
Construction on the Philip Johnson-designed Leonard Pearlstein Business
Learning Center just west of Matheson Hall has begun. I would like to
thank Trustee Melba Pearlstein for her gracious generosity in supporting
the center, which is named in honor of her late husband. I would also
like to thank Trustee George Krall and his wife Lois for their generous
gift for the George and Lois Krall Executive Education Center, which will
be housed in the Leonard Pearlstein Business Learning Center.
Tsetsekos Named Interim Dean of
LeBow College of Business
Dr. George Tsetsekos, who has served for the past four years as Drexel's
vice provost and vice president for academic administration, has been
appointed interim dean of the Bennett S. LeBow College of Business.
Already a professor of finance and director of the Risk Management Center at the College, Dr. Tsetsekos served as a special consultant to Latin American and European governments on privatization, investments and restructuring, and performed field work for World Bank projects. He also collaborated with the International Institute for Securities Market Development of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Dr. Tsetsekos is president-elect of the Multinational Finance Society.
Governor Ridge is Business Leader of Year
Drexel will present its 48th Business Leader of the Year Award to
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge, who now leads the Office of Homeland
Security, at a luncheon on November 26 at The Park Hyatt Philadelphia
at The Bellevue. Proceeds from the 2001 award luncheon will benefit a
Drexel scholarship in Governor Ridge's name and the advancement of the
technological capabilities in the LeBow College of Business. For more
information or to make reservations, call 215-895-1526.