According to the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, over 15,000 new teachers graduate from Pennsylvania’s 95 teaching colleges (including Penn State’s) per year. Fewer than half of those teachers will find jobs in-state because of Pennsylvania’s competitive educational job market: “‘There were times here in a 12-month period where we had 1,200 resumes on file,'” [said Donald […]
If our previous posts about the University of Maryland Porn Controversy (here and here), haven’t sated your appetite for XXX news, we have more. This time, the news is from Carnegie Mellon University. Today the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette wrote: Don’t expect heavy breathing or shady-looking patrons slumped furtively in their theater seats. It’s true, “The New […]
Think you can help steer the sinking ship that is the Daily Collegian? Do you write for Onward State? You don’t? Okay good, because that wouldn’t fly with them. The Collegian is currently inviting applications from those interested in filling the one open undergraduate spot on its Board of Directors. Isn’t that exciting? Interested people […]
Controversy always seems less sexy the morning after. We thought it might be worthwhile to construct a timeline of events detailing the history of that fairly ridiculous video. First, though, here’s the video. November 21, 2008 The Penn State Board of Trustees hears a presentation by Dr. Dennis Heitzmann about the series of videos prepared […]
Last Friday, Read Write Web wrote an article discussing the future of webmail for universities. Lots of schools already outsource thier webmail to bigger providers like Google, and more are considering the outsourcing. Hopefully webmail outsourcing won’t translate your emails into broken English. Most colleges will probably continue to provide students with an official .edu […]
Last week, U.S. News & World Report released its 2009 batch of college rankings. Penn State was ranked as the #15 best public university and #47 best university of any type. We didn’t make the top #50 values category. The Big Ten schools that beat us in the public school rankings are: 4. University of […]