Education
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Swarthmore College Students Who Organized Sit-In Receive Audience with Administration
The Swarthmore College students who staged a sit-in at a dean’s office, demanding to be heard on what they say is the school’s mishandling of sexual abuse investigations, received an audience with the administration after nine days of protests, writes Vinny Vella for the Philadelphia Inquirer. The students are members of Organizing for Survivors, a…
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Marcus Hook Woman Defies Stereotype, Graduates from Delaware County Community College
More than 1,500 students received associate degrees and certificates from Delaware County Community College at a commencement ceremony yesterday at Hollinger Field House at West Chester University. This year’s commencement speaker was also the Alumni Professional Achievement Award winner, Habibah Sulayman Smith of Drexel Hill. Smith is a project specialist for the U.S. Department of…
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Chester’s Jameer Nelson to Receive Degree 14 Years After Leaving College for NBA
Chester’s Jameer Nelson will receive his degree from Saint Joseph’s University 14 years after he left to pursue a basketball career, writes Terry Toohey for the Daily Times. Nelson will be one of the 2,200 graduates at the school’s 167th commencement exercises on Saturday. During the undergraduate ceremony, he will receive his bachelor’s degree in…
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Delaware County Community College Expands Study-Abroad Opportunities for Students
Delaware County Community College is continuing to expand its study-abroad opportunities for students, allowing them to gain a global perspective before they transfer to a four-year school. Last year, seven students ventured overseas for educational opportunities, while 15 participated this year. The goal is to continue to increase offerings and partnerships to help more students…
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Five Students from Delaware County Earn the First Social Work Degrees at Neumann
Among the more than 650 students who graduated from Neumann University last Saturday were some undergraduate trailblazers. Eleven students received the first degrees in Social Work ever awarded by the university, and five of them are residents of Delaware County. The Delco graduates are: Carla D’Angelo (Media) Amirah Guerrero (Aldan) Kezia Mathew (Lansdowne) Laila Sheriff…
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Delaware County Community College to Use State Grant to Strengthen Education, Training Programs
The Delaware County Workforce Development Board, in partnership with Delaware County Community College, recently received a Pennsylvania Strategic Innovation grant for $200,539 from the Commonwealth’s Department of Labor and Industry. The grant, one of 16 announced by Gov. Tom Wolf last month, will be used to improve career pathways and Allied Health programs by developing…
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From CHESCO: Penn State Great Valley Expands MBA Program to Brandywine Campus
Penn State Great Valley is expanding its MBA program in Malvern to the university’s Abington and Brandywine campuses to make it easier for working adults to earn a degree, writes Michelle Caffrey for the Philadelphia Business Journal. Penn State Great Valley has said that, beginning this fall, it will offer a hybrid course that is…
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Here’s How Delco Fared in U.S. News, World Report’s Rankings of State’s Best High Schools
U.S. News and World Report has released its 2018 List of the Best High Schools in Pennsylvania, and Radnor placed third, while Strath Haven checked in at No. 7. U.S. News and World Report ranked the Top 162 high schools in the Keystone State. It provided data on the other 515 high schools but could…
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Program Gives Haverford College Students Chance to Mentor Low-Income Teens
Haverford College students in the Mentoring and Student Teaching Program help low-income students in middle and high school gain more experience in the sciences and writing, writes Shaquana Drury for the Haverford Clerk. The MAST Program is both a job and a personal commitment for students. They spend their Saturday mornings teaching and building a…
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Former Penn State Brandywine Student Helps to Fight Cancer from a Penn Lab
Penn State graduate Jen Petrella is using her degree and knowledge to help fight cancer at the University of Pennsylvania, writes Haleigh Swansen for Penn State News. Petrella completed the first two years of her bachelor’s degree in biology at Penn State Brandywine, before transitioning to the University Park campus. There, Petrella minored in plant…
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Glen Mills Native’s Senior Thesis Receives Rave Reviews at Princeton
Taylor Griffith, a Glen Mills native and Westtown School graduate, examined the lead roles of black women on television for her senior thesis at Princeton, writes Denise Valenti for Princeton University News. The research is a continuation of Griffith’s junior paper, for which she explored advertising targeted at women. She realized that viewers spend years…
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As Residence Fraud Plagues Local School Districts, Here’s What Officials Are Doing to Stop It
School districts in the Philadelphia region are using private investigators to identify students who do not live within their borders, writes Avi Wolfman-Arent for WHYY. Nearly all of the 63 school districts in the four counties surrounding Philadelphia now spend time and money to prove residence fraud. According to administrators, the enforcement is necessary so…
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State Treasurer Visits Delaware County Community College to Announce New Tuition Savings Program
State Treasurer Joe Torsella visited Delaware County Community College last week to announce a new program, Keystone Scholars, which invests $100 for each child born, or adopted, in 2018 and 2019 to help their families pay for the costs of higher education. The program is designed to encourage Pennsylvania families to start thinking about saving…
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Delaware County Home to Three of State’s Top 10 Private High Schools
Delaware County is home to three of the Top 10 private high schools in Pennsylvania, according to the latest rankings published by Niche.com, writes Teresa Bonner for the Harrisburg Patriot-News. Niche.com based its rankings on a rigorous analysis of U.S. Department of Education data, test scores, and college data. The rankings also include ratings from…
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Industry Leaders Launch New Process Operator Academy at Delaware County Community College
Joining Braskem America, Eastern Controls, and other industry leaders, Delaware County Community College officials announced a new Process Operator Academy that will help train workers to be process operators in petroleum, chemical, pharmaceutical, food, and other industries. In just eight weeks, students taking non-credit, hands-on courses at the Process Operator Academy will learn the skills…
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Villanova Astrophysicist Awarded $450,000 Grant from NASA
A Villanova University professor whose work with NASA’s Kepler mission has provided revolutionary new data on binary stars has been awarded a two-year, $449,000 grant from NASA to support his research. Andrej Prsa is a world-renowned leader in the field of stellar astrophysics. The grant will support his project, “Sub-1 percent accuracy in fundamental stellar…
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Five Delco School Districts Rank Among State’s 25 Highest-Scoring on Standardized Tests
Five school districts in Delaware County are among the state’s Top 25 highest-scoring on standardized tests, with Radnor checking in at No. 2, writes Ethan Lott for the Philadelphia Business Journal. The Pittsburgh Business Times has published its 14th annual ranking of school districts in the state based on three years of standardized test scores.…
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Two Delaware County Community College Students Win Free Tuition to Any PASSHE University
Delaware County Community College students Yesenia Diaz (Lopez) of Kennett Square and Sourou Mariette Carolle Zounon of Upper Darby were among 46 community college students across the state selected as All-Pennsylvania Academic Team scholars. The honor includes free tuition to any of the state’s 14 Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) universities. The two…
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