Harcum College Offers Special Scholarship To Aid Victims Of Hurricane Sandy
Harcum College in Bryn Mawr is offering a special scholarship for full-time students from counties in Delaware, New Jersey, and New York affected by Hurricane Sandy.
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Harcum College in Bryn Mawr is offering a special scholarship for full-time students from counties in Delaware, New Jersey, and New York affected by Hurricane Sandy.
Superintendent William Hite defended the salary increases, saying they coincided with additional responsibilities for employees in the district's IT, finance, and human resources departments.
The odyssey of Hostess Brands is not only playing out in bankruptcy court and business boardrooms. Its liquidation is also being followed in schools of business on university campuses.
It's a stunner that still turns heads at the age of 53, but Frank Lloyd Wright's iconic Beth Sholom synagogue just had a laser treatment.
The school was in the spotlight two years ago when dozens of Asian students alleged they were being bullied on campus. Some parents says the punishment does not fit the crime.
There are few participation awards in the office, says Aaron McDaniel, a serial entrepreneur and author of "The Young Professionals Guide to the Working World."
Faculty and coaches at West Chester, Cheyney and twelve other state-owned universities have overwhelmingly voted to authorize their leadership to call a strike.
The Archdiocese of Philadelphia has concluded its wildly successful "PB&J Goes A Long Way" food drive.
There were squeals of delight and squeals of fear as students got a chance to hold a Madagascar hissing cockroach in the palm of their hand and let it crawl around a little.
A music teacher at a Southwest Philadelphia middle school has won a national award that means more than the $10,000 that goes with it.
Pennsyvlania auditor general Jack Wagner has issued his final report on the need for reform at Penn State University in the wake of the Sandusky scandal.
A proposed recovery plan for the financially and academically troubled Chester Upland district includes closing underused schools, hiring new administrators and cutting jobs.
Governor Corbett said Monday that, as they vote on authorizing a possible strike, he hopes faculty at the state-owned universities will remember the taxpayers of the state and parents of students, all of whom support the universities.
For 17 years Career Wardrobe has helped low income area women dress for the interview and job.
Rutgers University is letting students struggling to recover from last week's superstorm take their classes on a pass/no-credit basis this semester.
The School Reform Commission okayed the sale of $265-million in bonds just to get the district through its deficit this year.
The Educational Improvement Tax Credit is promoted as a way to provide a better education for poor children, but public education advocates say it actually takes away tax money that could be used to improve schools.
Expanding the program at a time when the state has slashed public school funding is infuriating public education advocates.
"BLOCS provides scholarships from your business taxes to students who not only want to attend a Catholic school but are most in need," says one advertisement.
State senator Tony Williams defends the program as similar to the GI Bill, but some of his Harrisburg colleagues see it as improperly favoring closed groups.
This round of grants gives cash to individual school districts using innovative tools to personalize learning.
Higher education has only gotten more expensive and it's natural for parents and grandparents to want to help. But, those who co-sign someone's student loan may not realize that, if the younger person stops paying, they're on the hook for the balance.
The school district says its system of rating schools is flawed and it's looking for an outside firm to fix it.
State education officials say students will be returning to classes Monday in many New Jersey schools that were shuttered by the superstorm.
State education officials say students will be returning to classes Monday in many New Jersey schools that were shuttered by the superstorm.
