Education
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Eastern University Alum Named School Nurse of the Year
Eastern graduate Emily Hunter, M.Ed., BS, RN, CSN, has been named the Pennsylvania School Nurse of the Year by the National Association of School Nurses for 2024. Hunter received her Master of Education in School Health Services from Eastern in 2021. The previous Eastern Eagle currently works at Rhawnhurst School in Philadelphia, where she has…
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Bucks County Community College Awarded $250,000 Grant to Prepare Next Generation of PA Workers
Bucks County Community College’s Center for Workforce Development has been awarded a $250,000 grant through the Pennslyvania Department of Labor & Industry to expand access to its highly successful Building and Construction Trades pre-apprenticeship program. Bucks County Community College will be one of 14 recipients of the state’s $3.3 million Schools-to-Work initiative. The Center for Workforce…
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Contingent of Holy Family Students, Faculty, Staff Spend Spring Break in Florida with Habitat for Humanity
Three Holy Family University faculty members and two staff members worked alongside 18 students over Spring Break in Florida at several building sites in Deerfield Beach, Pompano Beach, Fort Lauderdale, North Lauderdale, and Coral Springs as part of a community service project with Habitat for Humanity of Broward County. “This trip was such a rewarding…
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Bucks County Leadership: Marta Yera Cronin, President, Delaware County Community College
Marta Yera Cronin, President of Delaware County Community College, spoke with BUCKSCO Today about growing up in New York City and Miami as the child of parents who fled Cuba when Castro came into power. From a young age, Cronin loved the study of language, studying French and Russian in college in addition to speaking…
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Gwynedd Mercy University Receives PA State Gear Grant
Gwynedd Mercy University is the recipient of the the PA State GEAR UP (Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs) grant to host a summer camp. GMercyU is one of four colleges, and the only private institution, to receive funding in Pennsylvania. “We are pleased be selected as one of four recipients across the…
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WSJ: Penn Ranks Among Top Ten Colleges for High-Paying Careers in Finance, Tech, and Consulting
The University of Pennsylvania is among the top colleges in the nation for high-paying careers in finance, tech, and consulting, writes Alyssa Lukpat for The Wall Street Journal. Penn ranked in fourth place among the private colleges where graduates earn higher pay than the median graduate in finance. The university alumni who go into finance…
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Holy Family University’s Graduate and Adult Admissions to Host Evening with the School of Education on April 17
Holy Family University’s Department of Graduate and Adult Admissions invites area educators and those considering a career in education to an Evening with the School of Education on Wednesday, April 17 at 5 PM in the Education & Technology Center Auditorium on the Philadelphia campus. Attendees will have an opportunity to meet with Holy Family’s…
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Gwynedd Mercy University to Host Evening Graduate Programs Open House
Gwynedd Mercy University is offering graduate degrees and certificates in fields that span business, counseling, education, nursing, occupational therapy, and public health – and many are online or hybrid programs to fit into different lifestyles. Explore them at an in-person Graduate Programs Open House on Thursday, April 11 from 6:00 – 8:30 PM. The event…
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Holy Family University Graduate Oversees Quality of Life in Philadelphia with a Catholic Conscience
The view from Bridget Collins-Greenwald’s seventh-floor office in Philadelphia’s City Hall — a stunning one that overlooks Dilworth Plaza and provides a clear sightline down the beautiful Benjamin Franklin Parkway to the iconic Art Museum — is drastically different from the vantage point of the Marsden Street apartment and Ditman Street rowhouse in Tacony that…
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Bucks County Leadership Profile: Ronald Matthews, President, Eastern University
Ronald Matthews, President of Eastern University, spoke to BUCKSCO Today about growing up in Philadelphia, where his parents encouraged his passion for music from a young age. He started playing piano at age 4 and got his first job playing organ at a local church at 14. In addition to practicing his various musical instruments,…
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Haverford College Hopes to Fuel New Campus Projects With $1B Endowment
Haverford College will be shifting into high gear in fundraising over the next several years as it works on procuring an ambitious $1 billion endowment to fund several new campus projects, writes Ryan Mulligan for Philadelphia Business Journal. Haverford College President Wendy Raymond said they need about a 50 percent increase in donations to push…
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Central Bucks Student Shatters Personal Record With 1,017-Digit Pi Recitation
Central Bucks ninth-grade student Nergis Teke has dramatically outdone herself by memorizing and reciting 1,017 digits of Pi, significantly surpassing her previous record of 447 digits, writes Jeff Werner for the Patch. This achievement places her 68th in the U.S. and 77th across North America among all age groups in the discipline of Pi…
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Bucks County Leadership: John Kepner, Board Member, Gwynedd Mercy University
John Kepner, a board member at Gwynedd Mercy University, spoke with BUCKSCO Today about growing up in North Jersey, where a chance friendship sparked a lifelong passion for diversity and social justice. He also recalled learning the value of hard work from his summer job at Prudential Life Insurance. Kepner discussed his career in law…
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Eastern University’s Doctorate in Organizational Leadership Earns High Praise from Forbes
Forbes has ranked Eastern University’s Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership third on its list of the Best Online Doctorate in Organizational Leadership Programs for 2024. The list ranked 60 accredited, nonprofit universities offering the degree program at a doctoral level. Eastern University’s Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership equips students to serve as transformational change agents in business and beyond, offering three specialization…
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Program Spotlight: Online Certificate In Medical Billing
Are you interested in pursuing a career in one of the fastest-growing fields? Earning a Certificate in Medical Billing from Peirce College is a great way to start your career in health information management. The college’s Online Medical Billing Certificate is an ideal credential for those interested in entering the healthcare and health information management field, especially…
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3 Delaware County Schools Have Tightened Up on Who Gets In
The University of Pennsylvania is one of the hardest colleges to get into in the region based on local college acceptance rates, according to an analysis by Philadelphia Business Journal. But the second hardest is a college in Delaware County, writes Joanne Drilling and Ryan Mulligan for the Philadelphia Business Journal. Swarthmore College ranked as…
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Two Peirce College Students Awarded The Paradigm Scholarship For Working Women
Peirce College is committed to making higher education accessible and affordable through innovative programs — like credit for prior learning and test out — flexible transfer policies, and tuition discount partnerships. Peirce also makes higher education accessible and attainable by helping its students fund their degrees through a robust menu of scholarship options and support. …
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Eastern University Offers Total Tuition Award to Pennsylvania Residents
As part of its mission to make higher education more accessible and affordable for everyone, Eastern University offers an award covering the total tuition of qualifying students in Pennsylvania. Awareness of the award is especially relevant as FAFSA delays have caused mounting uncertainty for students and families. Eastern’s Total Tuition Award aims to help alleviate the financial strain…
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