Education
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DELCO Careers – Ridley School District
Ridley School District, serving 5,700 students with a staff of nearly 900 full and part-time teachers, administrators and staff, has the following open Delaware County career positions posted: Long Term Substitute Teacher – English as a Second Language Instructor Provides assistance supporting the fundamental concepts and practices of English as a second language instruction and incorporate…
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Delco Home to Three of Pennsylvania’s 25 Most Expensive Private Schools
Delaware County is home to three of the 25 Most Expensive Private Schools in Pennsylvania, writes Candy Woodall for the Harrisburg Patriot-News. The yearly tuition that the newspaper used to rank the schools includes boarding costs where applicable and does not reflect financial aid or other discounts that may be available to students. [uam_ad id=”52851″]…
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Delaware County Leadership: Dr. L. Joy Gates Black
Dr. L. Joy Gates Black, the new president of Delaware County Community College, spoke with DELCO.Today about growing up as an only child in Texas, attending a segregated elementary school, and dropping out of sports in order to allow her love for literature to flourish. She also discusses joining the Air Force right out of…
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Strength and Conditioning Experts Coming to Neumann University
Athletic Training students at Neumann University will have a front-row seat as more than 370 professional strength coaches, personal trainers, and athletic trainers from six states discuss current strength and conditioning topics in the Mirenda Center on Dec. 1 and 2. From 12-5 PM on Friday and from 8 AM-5 PM on Saturday, the Mid-Atlantic…
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Villanova Officially Launches Anne Welsh McNulty Institute for Women’s Leadership
Villanova University has officially launched the Anne Welsh McNulty Institute for Women’s Leadership, writes Victoria Berger for The Villanovan. The institute is named after McNulty, who graduated from Villanova as valedictorian in 1975. She became a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs before serving as senior executive of the Hedge Fund Strategies Group. She later founded…
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Cheyney Gets One-Year Reprieve with Probationary Accreditation Extension
Cheyney University has been granted a one-year reprieve after the Middle States Commission on Higher Education decided to extend its accreditation on a probationary basis, writes Bill Schackner for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The Commission cited the university’s progress in dealing with its woes, financial and otherwise, as the reason for the extension. The decision is…
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Cabrini University Opts for Unique Marketing of Online Programs
Cabrini University has opted for a unique marketing campaign for its online courses to ensure it stands out from other Philadelphia-area institutions, writes Jean Dimeo for Inside Higher Ed. Celia Cameron, vice president of marketing and communications for the small liberal arts college, recently turned to the firm Carvertise to create full-body vinyl decals that…
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Garnet Valley Grad One of 10 College Students in America Selected to Special Council
Garnet Valley High School graduate Shaina Hilsey, a senior at California University of Pennsylvania, has been selected as a member of the 2017-2018 American Association of University Women Student Advisory Council. Hilsey is one of 10 students nationwide to be selected for the council, which advises the AAUW on the needs of college students. Students…
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Delaware County Community College Presents Lecture, Juried Exhibition of Regional Artists
Delaware County Community College will present the 215|610 CONTEMPORARY Juried Exhibition of Regional Emerging Artists on Dec. 6 at the Marple Campus. The event begins at 4 PM with a lecture by acclaimed artist and 2017 guest juror Odili Donald Odita in the Large Auditorium of the Academic Building. The opening reception will be held…
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Neumann University to Host Live Nativity Celebration on Dec. 3
Neumann University will host its annual Greccio Live Nativity Celebration on Sunday, Dec. 3. The program, which is free and open to the public, begins at 6:15 PM in front of the Mirenda Center for Sport, Spirituality, and Character Development on Convent Road. Neumann students and faculty will re-enact the Franciscan tradition of the crib,…
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Neumann’s President Emeritus Honored by American Catholic Historical Society
Dr. Rosalie Mirenda, president emeritus of Neumann University, recently received the 2017 Barry Award from the American Catholic Historical Society. According to Michael Finnegan, president of the ACHS, she was selected for “her character and her contributions to the church, country, and community through her leadership in the field of Catholic higher education.” [uam_ad id=”52851″]…
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Cheyney University Hopes to Remove Interim Tag from Its Current President
Cheyney University has asked the State System of Higher Education to forgo the usual search process and officially name its interim president, Aaron Walton, to the position, writes Bill Schackner for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Cheyney’s Council of Trustees has voted to ask for limited dispensation from the SSHE board of governors. This is based on…
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Delaware County Community College’s New Choices a Free Career Development Program
Delaware County Community College’s New Choices Career Development program features mock interview sessions as part of the career development curriculum. With newly created résumés, students have an opportunity to improve their interviewing skills by practicing one-on-one with business professionals. New Choices is a free, six-week career exploration and job re-entry program that provides individual and…
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Proposed Tax Bill Would Be a Big Setback for This Trio of Local Colleges
The elimination of municipal bonds popular with hospitals and universities for construction, along with a tax on the largest university endowments, are being proposed in the tax bill recently released by the House Republicans, writes Harold Brubaker for the Philadelphia Inquirer. According to analysts, if the proposal were to pass, it’d be a big setback…
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DELCO Careers – Delaware County Intermediate Unit (DCIU)
The Delaware County Intermediate Unit (DCIU), a regional education services agency serving more than 70,000 school-aged students and more than 6,000 educators across Delaware County, has the following open career positions. Paraprofessional The job of Paraprofessional provides support to the instructional program within an assigned classroom with specific responsibility for assisting in the supervision, care…
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Motivated by Personal Tragedy, Penn Wood Football Coach Creates Culture of Success
Valencia Peterson, whom Penn Wood High School athletic director Rap Curry calls “a culture coach,” played an important role in helping the school’s football team recently win the Del Val League championship, writes Louis Bolling for The Huffington Post. Peterson had joined the Patriots under former head coach Nick Lincoln. As a volunteer coach, she…
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SAP-Backed Startup Program Helps High School Students Gain Tech, Entrepreneurial Skills
A Startup Tech program launched by the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship and backed by a $1 million donation from Newtown Square’s SAP aims to help high school students gain technology and entrepreneurial skills, writes Roberto Torres for Technical.ly Philly. The program at Philadelphia’s Roxborough High School offers workshops and mentorship sessions to students over the…
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As Frequency of Mass Shootings Increases, Local Lawyer’s Website Aims to Prevent Murder
West Chester-based attorney James Kimmel Jr. — a renowned author and academic lecturer — has spent the last 20 years researching and writing about preventing murder. It’s an issue that hits home for Kimmel, who leads the Healthcare Law Practice Group at Buckley, Brion, McGuire & Morris. He grew up in central Pennsylvania, and almost…
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