President Obama has stated that compensation for executives at companies receiving stimulus, or bail-out, money will be capped at $500,000. Businesses aren’t the only ones receiving funds from the government in this stimulus package, so are universities; Graham Spanier, as of 2006, has a yearly salary of $545,016. Obama’s mandate does not affect university administrators, […]
Penn State was ranked #14 in the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities, which is run by the the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas in Spain. We beat a bunch of the Ivies (Columbia, Brown, Dartmouth, and Yale), which is pretty sweet. MIT was ranked #1. The Big Ten was very well represented on the list. […]
The Campus Explorer is a feature of Onward State dedicated to exploring Penn State’s astrologically massive campus. The series will showcase a building or area on campus that doesn’t receive much attention as landmark buildings like the Beaver Stadium or Old Main. Since it’s groundbreaking ceremony on January 18, 2007, the construction of the 60 […]
Nick. Outside Redifer Commons. Nick is hip. Period. The black and dark red tones are edgy – especially when topped off with the ripped hole in his jeans. A pair of slim (or skinny, if you can pull it off) black denim are an essential part of every wardrobe. The newspaper under the arm adds, too. […]
In an opinion piece in the Philadelphia Bulletin, Thomas Shakely, founder of Safeguard Old State, discusses the effect of the currently debated stimulus package on higher education. Shakely argues that: this increase in taxpayer funding of higher education will not result in fundamentally better colleges or universities. Our universities and colleges will likely be less […]
Ah, State College Borough Meetings, please keep giving us gems like this: “Dogs are like people,” Pionke said at Monday night’s State College Borough Council meeting. “They get along sometimes, but some hate the other guys and want to get in their cage and whip them.” Has Harry Pionke’s experience with people been limited to […]
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