Improving the higher education experience

    The Borough of West Chester is humming once again as students have returned to campus for a new academic year. In a similar fashion, though without the boxes of textbooks and bags of clean laundry, Congress returned to Capitol Hill with a full agenda of critical policy items to address this fall.   In the coming months, the House will work to advance legislation to reauthorize the...

Op/Ed: More opportunities needed for Pa. higher-ed. students

Proposed REACH scholarship would put school in reach for many By Josh Maxwell, Mayor of Downingtown Josh Maxwell Over the last few years, higher education has become one of the most controversial issues facing our state. When Gov. Tom Corbett unveiled his first budget in 2011, it included roughly $2 billion in cuts to education, including steep cuts to the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education...