The move comes amid a budget crunch and as the West Philadelphia university prepares to move from a quarter system to a semester system, which is part of a larger academic restructuring.
Drexel University has asked several deans to step down as part of a consolidation of two colleges and one of its schools into a new entity, according to multiple sources.
The deans affected did not return emails requesting comment. The dean of the School of Biomedical Engineering, Sciences and Health Systems will retain his leadership role, but have a different title.Drexel also said that its School of Education would be merged into its College of Arts & Sciences, which is already underway.
“Changes of this magnitude understandably bring a range of emotions and questions, and they will impact each member of our University community in different ways,” he wrote.
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