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Drexel iSchool Dean Commits to Funding ‘Governor’s School’

David Fenske

David Fenske, dean of Drexel's College of Information Science and Technology, known as the iSchool, yesterday said the university is planning to continue the program as the Drexel University Computing Academy, cosponsored by his college and the computer science department of the College of Engineering.

"It really is essential to the economic development of the state," he said.

As reported in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the state of Pennsylvania has stopped using state money for the Governor's Schools of Excellence, but Drexel University, which hosted the information sciences program, plans to offer a similar program under its own banner this summer.

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