The Census Bureau loves talking about money, or the lack thereof. While poverty is more than a simple economic problem, factors such as income are still important. On Wednesday, the Census Bureau released its 2008 data on poverty and income for all of the nation’s 3,000 counties. Check out this super infographic on the New […]
No, that’s not happening, but it seems like it would soon become an option with Penn State’s World Campus online course system seeing record levels of enrollment. Never heard of it? Well it’s basically Penn State’s online campus for students who want to attend Penn State but for whatever crazy reason do NOT want to […]
Office of the Physical Plant workers are preparing for battle for the third year in a row. The enemy? Crows – hailing from Canada and New England. OPP has tried a lot of pretty interesting tactics to scare the crows away from the grounds of Penn State and State College. Here’s a rundown of what’s […]
For the first time since its inception, the University Park Allocation Committee (UPAC) will now hold open meetings – you can finally see how your over $3.2 million worth of Student Activity Fees are spent. UPAC assigns funds to programming, travel, equipment and media, service trips over breaks, and entertainment (i.e. BJC performances and events […]
Last February, Pres. Obama made announcements in a joint session of Congress that he had plans to boost the level of students that attend post-secondary educational institutions in a plan he hopes will see an increase to 60% of US college attainment levels by the year 2020. Now leaders of colleges and universities all over […]
No. 4 Street of Our Lady, a film by Penn State Professor Barbara Bird, Senior Lecturer Judy Maltz, and Assistant Professor Richie Sherman, is a story of Francisca Halamajowa, a woman who posed as a Nazi sympathizer in order to shelter sixteen Jews for nearly two years on her property in Sokal, Poland. Halamajowa’s story […]