More than 165,000 students soon will head to campus at Penn State, Temple, and Lincoln universities and the University of Pittsburgh, long before the state Senate returns to Harrisburg Sept. 18 and the House straggles in on Sept. 26.Pitt and Penn State students face some of the nation鈥檚 ...
When E. Gordon Gee became president of West Virginia University in 2014, he put forward an ambitious plan to increase the number of students attending its main campus in Morgantown, W.Va., along with its satellite campuses.Over a 10-year period, Gee asserted, WVU could boost its enrollment by ...
<strong>Cheers:</strong> This region was once heavily populated by immigrants who came here to work in mines and industry and build a better life for themselves and their families. Immigrants are once again arriving, this time in the Charleroi area, which has seen an ...
Debates over unresolved elements of the state government鈥檚 new $44.45 billion budget 鈥� including more than $600 million for four state-affiliated universities鈥� in-state tuition discounts, $100 million in 鈥渓evel-up鈥� funding for poor school districts, and more 鈥� have obscured ...
Marion County, Kansas, is located in the middle of the state, almost three hours west of Kansas City, Kan., and is really not the kind of place anyone would really expect to ever hear anything about.It has a population of about 11,000 people, and its weekly newspaper, the ...
<strong>Cheers:</strong> For anyone whose concerns about climate change have been heightened by this summer鈥檚 wildfires, storms and record-setting temperatures, The <em>New York Times</em> had a headline that allowed for a rare bit of ...
