No thanks to the pesky rioting, State College was named the second safest city in the country behind Logan, Utah by CQ Press recently. The full Metropolitan Crime Rankings can be found here. The Collegian reports: State College Mayor Bill Welch said this ranking reflects positively on the borough, something that is not always the […]
The New York Times reports: “The rising cost of college — even before the recession — threatens to put higher education out of reach for most Americans, according to the biennial report from the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education. Over all, the report found, published college tuition and fees increased 439 percent […]
While I tend to be skeptical of any college rating system, US News and World Report recently came out with a list of the Top 200 World Universities. Interested how Penn State measures up? Of course you are. 105! WE ARE 105! The top three universities were: Harvard, Yale, and the University of Cambridge (England). […]
The Centre Daily Times ran an article today further developing the chicken drama that seems be Borough Council’s primary concern. Here are some of the punniest passages. STATE COLLEGE — Egged on by chicken owners, Borough Council granted hens the right to live in State College after more than three months of debate. While in […]
President Spanier has been with us for thirteen years. Might this be his last? Marc Ambinder, one of The Atlantic’s bloggers, posted some musings on how Obama might fill his cabinet. For Education Secretary, Democrats say that Graham Spainer, the president of Penn State University, and Ray Mabus, the former governor of Mississippi, are said […]
The New York Times ran an article this week about the popularity of club sports teams on college campuses. An estimated two million college students play competitive club sports compared with about 430,000 involved in athletics governed by the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics. Here’s the list of club […]