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PennLive.com
Gov. Corbett's cuts make university tuition go up
At the same time, he has called on Pennsylvania’s public universities to lower their expenses and avoid raising tuition. Our governor says the price of higher education has gotten out of control. In several interviews, he cites statistics, for example, t...
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The Olympian
Alumni reflect on the colorful, 40-year history of Olympia's Evergreen State College
He didn’t have enough foreign language credits to get into the University of Washington, but he wanted to stay in college to qualify for a student deferment and avoid getting drafted and sent to Vietnam. A friend showed him the 168-page catalog for The E...
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TheNewsTribune.com
Behind high tuitions, there's $2.4 billion in financial aid
tool goes here There’s bad news for would-be college students, then good news, then more bad news. Stick with us. There’s bad news for would-be college students, then good news, then more bad news. Stick with us. The bad – for most Washington students –...
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Centre Daily Times
State High gets national recognition
State College Area School District has one of the top high schools in the state, according to a ranking from U.S. News & World Report. The latest ranking places State High at No. 24 in Pennsylvania. It is one of only 49 schools in the state to earn silve...
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FindLaw: Attorney Blog
Higher Education Act Aid Elimination Penalty
According to a recent article in USA TODAY, "[o]ne in every 400 students applying for federal financial aid for college is rejected because of a drug conviction, an analysis of Department of Education numbers by a drug policy overhaul group found." In fa...
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Daily Pennsylvanian
Student organizers work to capture the youth vote for President Obama
Every day, College freshman Gabe Delaney wears an American flag pin on his lapel. He received the pin at a dinner with President Barack Obama when he participated in the National Young Leaders Conference, a high-school conference in Washington. Delaney w...
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Altoona Mirror
District ranked No. 54 in Pa.
HOLLIDAYSBURG - A leading source of education news and rankings has selected Hollidaysburg Area Senior High School as one of the best high schools nationwide. With a 14-to-1 student-to-teacher ratio, college-ready students and high scores on state assess...
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iStockAnalyst
Community Colleges Applaud Senate Republican Budget
HARRISBURG, Pa., May 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Senate-approved $27.7 million budget for fiscal year 2012-2013 will restore crucial operating funds to Pennsylvania's 14 community colleges to help meet increased student and employer demands, officials sa...
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CBS-WNCT Eyewitness News 9
Editorials from around Pennsylvania
DuBois isn't anywhere near bankruptcy, as far as we know. Neither are Brockway, Reynoldsville, Sykesville, Brookville, Ridgway, St. Marys or Clearfield, unless someone is keeping something very, very secretive. But Harrisburg is bankrupt, broke, unable t...
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PR Newswire
Statement by Dr. Walter G. Bumphus, President American Association of Community Colleges: Community Colleges Act on Recommendations of 21st-Century Commission on the Future of Community Colleges
WASHINGTON, May 9, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Recent announcements by the Pennsylvania Commission for Community Colleges and the Texas Association of Community Colleges are impressive first steps toward the implementation of recommendations from Rec...
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Dixhills Patch
Students Argue Against Costly AP Exam Requirement
The Half Hollow Hills School District’s requirement that students in an Advanced Placement course must take an optional College Board exam in order have “AP” designation on their high school transcripts, punishes high-achieving teens with an expensive an...
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Chronicle of Higher Education
Creator of ‘Anonymous’ Gossip Site Names Names
Campus-gossip Web sites like JuicyCampus and CollegeACB used the lure of anonymity to entice students to post on them. The cloak gave students a virtual bathroom wall on which to write racy rumors and explicit insults about their peers without fear of be...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Universities pledge lower tuition hikes
May 9, 2012 12:11 am Share with others: By Laura Olson / Post-Gazette Harrisburg Bureau HARRISBURG -- In exchange for maintaining state aid to several of the state's largest universities, Senate Appropriations Chairman Jake Corman wanted a promise in ret...
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Penn to extend president Gutmann through 2019
The University of Pennsylvania's Board of Trustees gave president Amy Gutmann a big vote of confidence on Tuesday, announcing that it will extend her contract for a third five-year term. Gutmann, 62, who took the helm at Penn in 2004, would become the se...
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iStockAnalyst
Rep. Fattah Announces $765,663 in College Readiness "Upward Bound" Grants for Penn, Community College of Philadelphia
WASHINGTON, May 8, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Congressman Chaka Fattah (D-PA), the education innovator whose college readiness programs have prepared millions of young people for the rigors and cost of higher education, today announced grants to two...
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