Op-Ed: Wolf is wrong to cut state aid to private colleges by Thomas J. Botzman
The wide-ranging options of higher education have served the residents of Pennsylvania well for many years. Just about anywhere in the commonwealth, residents can choose from community colleges and trade schools to public and private universities to advance their educations and opportunities in... - Patriot-News

Healthy discussions about 'white privilege,' racial injustice are necessary, Elizabethtown College president says
Elizabethtown College students are regrouping after they got swept up into a polarizing national debate about “white privilege” — the notion that whites enjoy societal advantages because of their skin color —last week. The campaign, which the college administration supported, was a teaching moment, according to Elizabethtown College President Carl Strikwerda. - LNP

Wilson College to offer special ed master's degree
Adding to the school's master's programs, Wilson College is now offering a Master of Special Education, which will begin in the spring semester on March 20. - Chambersburg Public Opinion

Albright College passes fundraising goal of $55 million
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Albright College has hit the mark, with more than three months to spare. The college announced Monday it had surpassed the $55 million fund-raising goal of its seven-year-long campaign titled, "That Their Light May Shine: The Campaign for Albright College."... - Reading Eagle

Universities face pressure to hold the line on Title IX
“This is a chance to be doing what we should be doing rather than what we must be doing,” said Brett Sokolow, the executive director of the Association of Title IX Administrators, which takes its name from the federal sex discrimination law. On one side of the issue are those who believe the Trump administration... - New York Times

BG, Mount Aloysius team up on dual high school, college program
Following the model of high school-university partnerships in other regions of the country, Bishop Guilfoyle Catholic High School and Mount Aloysius College set to offer high school students an opportunity to earn a college degree at the same time as earning their high school diploma. Beginning in September of next school year, Bishop Guifoyle ninth-grader students may begin a prescribed program that sets them on track to graduate from high school with an associates degree in liberal arts. - Altoona Mirror

Misericordia to arm some campus security personnel
Misericordia University will join the ranks of colleges where at least some campus security guards carry guns. The Dallas Township school announced Monday its board of trustees has approved arming guards. Armed guards have been on local campuses since 2013, when Luzerne County... - Wilkes-Barre Times Leader

Messiah College renovation project moves forward for athletic facilities
Starting next fall, Messiah College students will have fewer reasons to skip the gym after an $18.5 million expansion and renovation project to the college’s athletic facilities is completed in August. When finished, Messiah’s existing Sollenberger Sports Center building... - Carlisle Sentinel

Lackawanna College, U of S boost ed-med evolution
Brain drain, the flight of well-educated young people to other areas, long has been one of the key economic challenges facing Northeast Pennsylvania. It’s somewhat ironic in that, as young people with degrees leave, higher education continues to grow as a major component of the regional... - Scranton Times

Elizabethtown College's Young Center to begin expansion project, adding space for Amish research, exhibits
Lancaster County is home to the United States’ premier center for academic research into Amish and other Plain Sect culture, and it's expanding. Two wings totaling about 3,500 square feet will be added to Elizabethtown College's Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, increasing its size by 60 percent.The $1.5 million expansion will allow the center to do more research, as well as educate the public about Plain Sect culture. - LNP

At Haverford, 'data rescue' aims to save vital climate research
Unusually warm, sunny skies for February didn’t deter a group of college students, faculty, and staff from holing up in the Haverford College library for most of Saturday, on a mission to rescue federal data they feared could be in danger under the new White House administration. - Philadelphia Inquirer

‘Deleted' items from phones still easily accessible, St. Vincent's research finds
A research project developed through the cybersecurity program at Saint Vincent College revealed the data people believe is deleted from their phone is still easily accessible. - WPXI

Media business team with Widener to plan for the future
The Widener University Small Business Development Center and Media Business Authority recently announced a partnership to strengthen and retain businesses in Media. - Delaware County Daily Times

Mount Aloysius College names CFO
Michael Baker of Portage will serve as the chief financial officer at Mount Aloysius College, Cresson. Baker has 22 years of financial management and reporting experience. He formerly worked at CFO Strategies LLC, a Johnstown-based business and financial consulting firm. - The Tribune-Democrat

King’s, Wilkes ice hockey programs on track for debut
Stephen Mallaro and Jen Kindret will be taking over the men’s and women’s ice hockey programs, respectively at King’s, while Stephanie Newmark will lead the way at Wilkes. All three programs will debut in the 2017-18 season, as members of the Division III level, 10-team United Collegiate Hockey Conference. - Times Leader

Cabrini surpasses goal, collects 3,918 pairs of socks for donation
On Wednesday, Feb. 15, Cabrini University collected 3,918 pairs of socks in a community-wide attempt to break the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ title for Largest Sock Drive in 8 Hours—Single Location. The world record goal was 2,459 pairs. - Main Line Times

CMU festival helps young students explore engineering
With its spring-like temperatures and blue skies worthy of Colorado, Sunday would have been a perfect day for Dionna Bobo to be going door to door selling Thin Mints and caramel-coconut-flavored Samoas for Girl Scout Troop 58022. Instead, the 8-year-old Brownie and Ellis School second-grader spent the... - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Duquesne's Darwin Day speaker will address the origins of life
Imagine the biochemical key to life on Earth occurring just once over the past 4.5 billion years. One bacterium engulfed by another, in ways unknown, to create the first nucleus surrounded by a nuclear envelope that includes cytoplasm and a cell membrane: The first cell created by the rarest happenstance.... - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

At CMU, a fashion show with a twist of technology
High fashion isn't the first thing usually associated with Carnegie Mellon University, but on Saturday night, the Weigand gym on campus was transformed with thumping Electronic Dance Music, a dazzling light show and stone-faced models walking the runway. The transformation was part of the annual design showcase, Lunar Gala:... - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Op-Ed: Russian aggressiveness a warning to Trump administration
Daniel Cohen, a senior at Muhlenberg College, writes: "Engagement with Russia could prove useful, but it must not transform into a policy of appeasement." - The Morning Call