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Why Am I Paying $110,000 a Year in College Tuition?

There are some jobs I would love to have. Professional baseball player. Writer for Saturday Night Live. U.S. Congressman. With the exception of baseball (I’m […]

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How to Skip College — and Thrive

The lecture hall is packed. The elephant-gray room is set up like a mini-arena to allow for maximum capacity and good acoustics. It’s new but […]

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Morning Headlines: NIMBY Drama Stirs Up Between Residents and Swarthmore College

Three things are set to happen once construction ends on the new development Swarthmore College has commissioned: First, more books will be available; second, the […]

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Bryn Mawr College Named Top 20 LGBT-Friendly School by Princeton Review

This week, Princeton Review released its annual Most LGBT-Friendly Schools list. There weren’t too many surprises. Private, liberal stalwarts make the top three: Stanford in California, […]

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True Grit: Why Temple Is Turning Away From the SAT

Temple University is going to take the road less traveled. The university announced last month it will become the first major research university in the […]

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Eastern University President Bashed Over Letter to Obama

Barack Obama on Monday signed an executive order barring federal contractors from discriminating against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender employees. It didn’t contain an exemption […]

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Swarthmore Applications Drop Due to Extra 500-Word Essay, School Says

Applications to Swarthmore College dropped 16 percent this year, and the school has a culprit: The extra supplemental 500-word essay the school required in this […]

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Penn Professor: Many Faith-Based Colleges Shouldn’t Be Accredited

In an essay Monday in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Penn English and education professor Peter Conn writes of “The Great Accreditation Farce.” His take: […]

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Were You Offended by FAFSA’s Kristen Wiig ‘I’m Poor’ Tweet?

In the still of the night last week, the Twitter account for the U.S. Department of Education’s Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) made […]

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Classes Resume at Community College of Philadelphia Day After Gun Scare

[UPDATE, 12:29 p.m.] Police have released the mug shot of Ryan M. Fitch. According to Philadelphia Police: “At approximately 11:58 a.m., inside Community College of […]

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The Most Selective College in Pennsylvania Is…

… Curtis Institute of Music. Per this chart on eCollegeFinder, Curtis accepts just 5 percent of its applicants. This 5-percent rate would make it the […]

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St. Joseph’s President Gets No Confidence Vote from Business Faculty

Business faculty passed a vote of no confidence in St. Joseph’s president Rev. C. Kevin Gillespie last week, the Inquirer’s Susan Snyder reports. On February […]

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Temple School of Medicine Renamed for Lewis Katz

Temple has announced where the $25 million Lewis Katz surprisingly pledged to donate last fall is headed: The Temple School of Medicine, which will be […]

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Haverford Commencement Speaker: Letter a ‘Violent, Verbal Attack’

Haverford College’s commencement speaker this year is Robert J. Birgeneau, former chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley. Maybe that sounds like an odd match […]

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Former Philadelphia University Student Sues Over Sexual Assault Expulsion

Anthony Villar (left) was a junior at Philadelphia University until January 23rd, when he was expelled by the school after his former girlfriend accused him […]