Education

PA Treasury Encourages Families to Contribute to Pa 529 Guaranteed Savings...

Pennsylvania Treasurer Joe Torsella today reminded Pennsylvania families to make a contribution to their PA 529 Guaranteed Savings Plan (GSP), before most institutions of...

Tips for Help Avoid the Pennsylvania College “Freshmen 15”

For the millions of students who will be starting college for the first time, they will be exposed to new things, including challenges with...

Crushing Student Debt – Ranking PA Schools

At a staggering $36,193, LendEDU's annual rankings of states with the lowest student debt ranked Pennsylvania as having the highest debt for graduates of...

Pennsylvania 2017 college grads lead the nation in student debt

(TribLIve) Debt be not proud. Poet John Donne didn't say that, but he might have if he'd lived in modern day Pennsylvania where a recent survey...

California, Mansfield, Slippery Rock universities to offer new degree programs geared...

Three universities across Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education—California, Mansfield and Slippery Rock—will offer a combined eight new degree programs beginning as early as...

House Democratic Policy Committee discuss free college tuition legislation

https://youtu.be/X5eGzz5VrfA State Rep. James Roebuck, D-Phila., today hosted a House Democratic Policy Committee public hearing at Temple University on the PA Promise Act, his legislation...

PASSHE Board of Governors selects Peter C. Fackler as Mansfield University’s...

The Board of Governors of Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education today selected Peter C. Fackler to serve as interim president of Mansfield University...

PHEAA’s MySmartBorrowing.org offers look at potential student loan debt before borrowing

As college-bound high-school students prepare to return to school at the end of the summer, PHEAA encourages them and their families to visit MySmartBorrowing.org...

Report: Pennsylvania one of the least affordable states for college

(Villiage Voice) A new report has confirmed the suspicions of anyone who has paid for in-state tuition here in Pennsylvania:  The state is one of the...

OPINION: We say we seek diversity — but where are the...

(By Margee Ensign, President of Dickinson College,) Every day it seems that the world becomes more tribalized. People define themselves and their “group” more and...