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Sacramento Business Journal, April 13, 2012
Drexel University’s Sacramento center is rolling out the region’s first health care Master of Business Administration program, helping to supply Sacramento’s huge health care industry with managers who understand accounting and leadership — not just the clinical specialty in which they work.
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Sacramento Business Journal, January 31, 2012
Meet a Valley Vision dynamo -- Sally Phonthachack, who is working on her masters at the Center for Graduate Studies, has landed an eight-month fellowship from Valley Vision, the regional economic development group dedicated to job and wealth creation.
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Sacramento Magazine, June 2011
Sacramentans love to tout how long they've lived in the area, but sometimes it's the outsider with fresh eyes who can envision solutions to our age-old problems. Case in point: Tobey Oxholm, dean and CEO of Drexel University in Sacramento.
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Sacramento Business Journal, June 17, 2011
Next week Drexel University's Sacramento center will graduate some 100 students in its first commencement ceremony. The June 25 ceremony at Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento also marks a graduation of sorts for the center, which launched in January 2009.
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The Sacramento Bee, April 28, 2011
Drexel University recently introduced a 12-module employee-development series to assist in the individual growth and professional development of its professional staff members, including the dedicated faculty and staff in Sacramento.
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The Triangle, April 22, 2011
Representatives from Drexel’s graduate school in Sacramento, Calif. visited the University City Campus this week to gain perspective on how to promote unity at their developing campus in California.
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Sacramento Business Journal, March 29, 2011
Kaiser Permanente has launched a new academic enrichment program with Drexel University’s Center for Graduate Studies in Sacramento that offers students in Drexel’s interdepartmental medical science program an opportunity to shadow Kaiser physicians in South Sacramento to see what it’s like to be a doctor.
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Sacramento Business Journal, March 04, 2011
Drexel University's Sacramento center plans to begin offering in the fall a master's degree in finance - a program that is growing in popularity. The finance degree will provide a deeper focus on finance than the master's in business administration degree offers.
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Placer Herald, February 24, 2011
The Applebaum family of Rocklin often accomplishes more in one morning than most people do all day. Sam Applebaum is an adult primary care physician with Kaiser Permanente. His wife, Laura, is a family physician with Sutter.
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El Dorado Hills Telegraph, January 26, 2011
Thirty-four students were honored recently at a celebration that precedes a formal graduation in June. They have earned an MBA, MS-Library & Information Science, or MS-Information Systems.
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Central Valley Business Times, January 7, 2011
Two years after opening its Center for Graduate Studies in Sacramento, Drexel University is celebrating the graduation of its first class of students – five months before the actual graduation ceremonies.
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Sacramento Business Journal, January 7, 2011
Drexel University’s Center for Graduate Studies in Sacramento will recognize its first graduating class
on Saturday. The center, whose first students began classes in January 2009, has 35 students who have completed degrees in master’s in business administration, library and information science, or information systems.
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The Giving Connection, Winter 2010
A major sponsor of our annual meetings since arriving in 2009, Drexel University has donated its state-of-the-art Graduate Center to over 50 government agencies and nonprofit organizations, including the Foundation and many of its grantees. And it provides significant tuition assistance to those who work in public service.
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The Sacramento Observer, November 18, 2010
Brittney Gandy has set the tone for the Nehemiah Community Foundation and Drexel University's "Community Public Health Master's Grant."
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Landlink, Fall 2010
Drexel University and the Urban Land Institute Sacramento Young Leaders Group today announced
that they have awarded the second Drexel-ULI Young Leaders Scholarship. The grant provides a 10,000 scholarship to help a working professional pursue a master’s degree at Drexel’s Center for Graduate Studies in Sacramento.
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Lincoln News Messenger, November 11, 2010
Karla Marquez received the Hispanic Leadership Master's Grant from the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. She is currently enrolled in Drexel University's executive master of public health curriculum. Marquez moved to Lincoln as a baby and is the first-born child of Latino immigrants.
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Roseville Press Tribune, November 10, 2010
Mike O'Docharty is now settling into a quiet life in "beloved Roseville," a complete about-face compared to his Navy career after 9/11, when everything was "go, go, go!" As part of the Post-9/ll GI Bill, the Yellow Ribbon program picks up the tab for veterans to go back to school and receive a free education.
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The Sacramento Bee, September 30, 2010
Drexel is one of the original Founding Sponsors of the Powerhouse Science Center project. Dean Tobey Oxholm was the master of ceremonies on October 30 when dozens of dignitaries marked a major step towards realization.
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Central Valley Business Times, September 23, 2010
Brittney Gandy has been named the inaugural recipient of the Community Public Health Master's Grant, a $10,000 scholarship funded by the Nehemiah Community Foundation of Sacramento.
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Comstock's Magazine, August 2010
Drexel grad students entered Team Dragon in the recent Metro EDGE dodgeball fundraiser to benefit the CSU Sacramento Educational Opportunity Program, which serves California residents from low-income households seeking their bachelor’s degree.
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Sacramento Business Journal, August 8, 2010
Kyle Glankler, first President of Drexel’s Graduate Student Association in Sacramento, writes about the ways that the region’s organizations - with the active support of Drexel University – are preparing their next generation of leaders.
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The Sacramento Bee, August 01, 2010
Providing access to top-tier online courses for those students whose location, work or family commitments make it difficult to come to campus is not only good teaching pedagogy, but good public policy, especially for a state needing to do more with less, writes Sacramento Dean Tobey Oxholm in a recent Sacramento Bee op ed.
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Roseville Press Tribune, July 28, 2010
Graduates of the Roseville Chamber of Commerce-sponsored Leadership Roseville program will be able to continue their education with substantial tuition assistance for those interested in earning a master's degree at Drexel's Center for Graduate Studies in Sacramento.
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Sacramento Business Journal, June 24, 2010
Drexel University’s Sacramento Center for Graduate Studies will slash its tuition by 40 percent for all full- and part-time employees of the California Community Colleges System who enroll in any of the Sacramento center’s master’s programs.
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The Sacramento Bee, May 26, 2010
Students at Drexel University's Center for Graduate Studies in Sacramento were commended for volunteer work in the community; including work performed for, the Great American River Clean Up, the Run to Feed the Hungry, the Komen Race for the Cure, and more.
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Central Valley Business Times, May 25, 2010
Classmates for merely a week, when this group of five first-year MBA students from Drexel
University’s Center for Graduate Studies in Sacramento came together to compete in an
international tournament as a team they barely knew each other.
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KOVR-CBS13, April 22, 2010
Starts in August at Sacramento Location
Channel 13 reports on Drexel's Center for Graduate Studies' new Interdepartmental Medical Science program.
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Central Valley Business Times, April 21, 2010
A post-baccalaureate program to better prepare students for medical school is to be offered by Drexel University at its Sacramento campus beginning in August.
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Newsletter of the Sacramento Region Community Foundation, Spring 2010
In Sacramento for less than two years, Drexel has already made a significant place for itself as a leader in local higher education and philanthropy.” So notes the Spring 2010 newsletter of the Sacramento Region Community Foundation and its president Fred Teichert, highlighting Drexel’s “focus on issues critical to our region’s future, such as leadership and philanthropy.
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Folsom Telegraph, April 15, 2010
By Eric Laughlin
An initial encounter with theater production specialist Charles Davidson will pretty much reveal an average guy who loves the arts. As theater manager for Folsom Cordova Unified School District, the Redding man tackles everything from lighting and sound to scheduling but this “Average Joe” really isn’t so average once he starts talking about taxes and the Internal Revenue Service.
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The Daily Democrat, March 24, 2010
Patty Wong, Yolo County Librarian and Chief Archivist, is a 26-year veteran in the field of library
services who has dedicated her life to improving library access. She’s also a member of Drexel’ faculty, teaching in the Library & Information Sciences Program in Sacramento.
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Sacramento Business Journal, March 19, 2010
Kevin Lewin, a Lincoln resident who works as a systems engineer for Op-Source Inc., is the first graduate of Drexel University's Center for Graduate Studies in Sacramento. The 28-year-old finished last Saturday, earning a master's degree in information systems.
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The Sacramento Bee, March 2, 2010
There's a cool Sacramento angle to this year's annual competition involving the top business students at seven Philadelphia-area universities.
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Comstock's Magazine, August 2010
His job is bi-coastal - SVP in Philadelphia, Dean in Sacramento. No wonder a “working lunch” with Dean Tobey Oxholm has him multi-tasking. He loves living in Sacramento, praises Drexel’s students for their energy and vision, and exhorts area employers to invest more in their human capital by increasing tuition assistance. Send your boss this link!
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The Sacramento Bee, February 11, 2010
The economic El Niño this region has been enduring over the past two years is hardly good news, but it too will pass. The question we have to answer is, in what shape will we be when the sunny days of the boom economy return?
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KQCA-NBC58, January 5, 2010
The region's NBC-TV affiliate noted Drexel's "explosive growth" and KQCA, the CBS affiliate, hosted Drexel’s Director of Recruitment Nancy Thompson, celebrating our success on the first anniversary of our arrival in Sacramento.
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The Sacramento Bee, January 5, 2010
In the year since the Philadelphia-based school opened its
doors in Sacramento, it has boosted enrollment from an initial
60 to 175 students and doubled its master's degree offerings
to eight, including graduate study in business
administration; library and information science; and human
resource development.
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The Press-Trubune, December 12, 2009
There is nothing easy about assuming leadership in a company that has no clear direction, is failing to meet customer demands, and is experiencing financial difficulties. Yet that was the theoretical challenge facing four first-year MBA students in Drexel University’s Center for Graduate Studies in Sacramento – and their handling of the challenge won them a third-place finish among 185 teams from around the world.
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KCRA-NBC3, November 11, 2009
This day we are honoring those who dedicated thier lives to the military and life after service is not easy for many. KCRA-3 introduces us to two Sacramento area vets who are now safe at home and making the most of the unique opprotunity to go to college for free.
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Rocklin Chamber News, November 9, 2009
Area colleges and institutions of higher learning are discovering that flexibility is the key, and transitioning military personnel from student to soldier and back again presents a unique challenge. Drexel University leads the way.
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KOVR-CBS13, November 6, 2009
Channel 13 shows pictures of our high-tech classrooms while congratulating “Sacramento’s Drexel University” for achieving top national rankings in academic quality and student satisfaction among part-time MBA programs.
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The Press-Tribune, November 4, 2009
This fall, the "Post-9/11 GI Bill" went into effect, providing the most significant increase in benefits to our veterans in 65 years. Drexel University is among the nation's leaders in providing free tuition to honor our vets.
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Auburn Journal, October 29, 2009
By day, Jennifer Dzakowicz works as a senior planner for Placer County in its long-range planning division. In the evening, she is pursuing her own long-range plan by getting her MBA with Drexel.
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Philly.com, October 12, 2009
Drexel was selected for its work in rejuvenating a four-mile corridor on Lancaster Avenue and its partnership with Penn to revitalize University City. It also extended its presence in the city with the acquisition and expansion of the center city campus of Hahnemann Medical school (now Drexel University College of Medice.)
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Sacramento Business Journal, October 2, 2009
When Drexel University’s Center for Graduate Studies opened 10 months ago, it had a formidable challenge: no name recognition in Sacramento. But the Drexel center has started the fall term with 124 new students to add to the 50 initial students from January.
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Sacramento Business Journal, September 4, 2009
As a leading facilitator of economic development, the Sacramento Metro Chamber acknowledges…the commitment shown to our community by a nationally known institution with the long-term vision that only comes with 118 years of experience…Drexel University.
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KNTY-FM 101.9 The Wolf, August 24, 2009
Tobey Oxholm, Dean of the Sacramento Graduate Center, did a Paws for the Troops interview this morning to describe Drexel’s “maximum contribution” to post-911 veterans benefits. Qualifying veterans can have all of their tuition paid for by Drexel and the federal government.
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The Placer Herald, July 30, 2009
By Lauren Weber
Rocklin resident Carol Boles, 52, recently returned to school to earn a master’s degree at Drexel University in Sacramento. She had to get back into the school routine while still working part time at the Rocklin branch of the Placer County Library.
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The Sacramento Bee, July 15, 2009
By Laurel Rosenhall
As leaders of Philadelphia's Drexel University visited Sacramento this week, there was no missing the stylized golden dragon that is the school's mascot. It was on banners hung along Capitol Mall, where Drexel opened a graduate studies center in January.
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Metro Business Quarterly, July 2009
Member Profile of Drexel University Center for Graduate Studies, appearing in the Metro Chamber’s Metro Business Quarterly. The Metro Chamber is the region's leading business organization for promoting economic strength and serving as a unified voice of business throughout the six-county Sacramento region.
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College Planning & Management, June 2009
Drexel University's Center for Graduate Studies in Sacramento boasts a wealth of technology. Drexel University's Center for Graduate Studies in Sacramento, CA, which opened in January 2009, is a story about the wisdom of careful planning and the role that technology played and will continue to play in fulfilling the Center's educational mission.
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Sacramento Today, May 21, 2009
The Sacramento Hispanic Chamber of Commerce has commended Drexel University, the Greater Sacramento area's newest university, for its commitment to the community and diversity.
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Sacramento Business Journal, May 8, 2009
Drexel University installed a sign Thursday atop the One Capitol Mall building in downtown Sacramento, which houses the university's Center for Graduate Studies. The Philadelphia university opened its Sacramento center Jan. 5. The center offers classes in four master's degree programs. In September Drexel will add five more master's programs. Drexel is expected to invest more than $10 million as it grows in Sacramento, university respresentatives said.
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Sacramento Business Journal, April 9, 2009
Drexel University has named a Granite Bay woman as director of recruitment for Drexel’s new Sacramento Center for Graduate Studies.
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Sacramento Business Journal, February 27, 2009
Drexel University may be the largest and most prestigious American university that many Californians have never heard of. That's changing, at least in the Sacramento region.
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Rocklin & Roseville Today, September 4, 2008
Drexel University's plans for the Sacramento area have drawn much attention from community and business leaders as the university recruits students for its first class at the Sacramento Center for Graduate Studies.
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Central Valley Business Times, May 22, 2008
Drexel University, which is based in Philadelphia, says it will open a center for graduate studies in Sacramento and establish a $10 million fund for fellowships for students.
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Sacramento Business Journal, May 22, 2008
Philadelphia's Drexel University will establish a Sacramento graduate program and will commit $10 million to financially assist students here.
