Constantine Papadakis
Constantine Papadakis has been the President of Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA since 1995. He has used the historic strengths of the University (co-operative education, a focus on technology and the rich resources of its Philadelphia location) to double full-time undergraduate enrollment from 4,500 in 1996 to more than 12,000 today; triple freshman applications; quadruple the endowment from $90 million to more than $500 million; and quintuple research funding. Today, Drexel educates 17,500 students, is the sixth largest private employer in Philadelphia employing more than 5,000 people and has an annual budget of more than $572 million.
Of the 12,000 students there is a shortage of housing for all student that wants to live in the dorms. Of the endowments most of it goes into his pocket. Papadakis makes more then the president of the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League school. His salary is somewhere around $856,000. Recently they came up with the most worthless idea ever which is to put in flat panels around campus that only shows drexel news. The money that were put into those panels could of been better put to use such as an air condition unit in the gymnasium or more money in the forms of scholarships and grants to help the students of Drexel. Drexel is the only school that charges for students to print out from the computer labs. His love for money knows no bounds. This is what they don't tell you.
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