Moody's cited several reasons for the rating, most notably including improved university governance. “[Penn State's rating] reflects its position as one of the nation's largest and leading public universities, sustained philanthropic support, modest financial leverage and significantly strengthened governance and management practices,” the report says.
Two students were arrested by university police yesterday and charged with burglary, criminal trespassing, and criminal mischief after they were found at Old Main after hours.
What happens when you put one of the most hardline libertarians in the same room with one of the most fundamentally liberal pundits in political culture? Well, you get a pretty good debate. It was just that Monday evening as Ron Paul and Barney Frank parleyed the role of government in a civil society in Schwab Auditorium in The Great Debate, made possible by the College Republicans and College Democrats.
Yesterday, The Daily Collegian published a (very) brief editorial on Penn State's Timely Warning notifications. While campuses should (and can) always be doing more to prevent crime and educate students about sexual misconduct on campus, the editorial demonstrated an overall lack of understanding of campus crime laws. Let's clarify what Timely Warnings are really for.
With big decisions looming at the end of the Summer Founders Program, the MichelAngelo team team is creating a robotic, multi-jointed endoscope for surgeons with the help of doctors at the Hershey Medical Center.
College of Communications professor Mary Beth Oliver, along with Florida State's Arthur Raney, has been awarded a $1.95 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation to study whether or not the 'feel-good' stories that we see on social media and in the newspaper can help make us better people.