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Tiogaresident Nikki Wilson is an advocate for a college program that  assures many students facing academic and financial challenges don't drop out before they earn a degree.  She recently shared her fears that economic realities facing the state  Legislature and Gov. Ed Rendell as they debate the budget will impact her job and the future of many college students.

Pennsylvania Gov. Edward Rendell has appointed a 1981 Mansfield University graduate as his chief of staff, the university announced Monday. MU alumnus Steve Crawford has been the governor's secretary of legislative affairs since the beginning of Rendell's first term in 2003, according to a news release issued by Mansfield University.

The nation's current economic crisis, with its high unemployment rate, makes the issue of affordable access to higher education more critical than ever. Pennsylvania's community colleges have risen to the challenge by controlling costs, holding the line on tuition increases and providing innovative programs for displaced workers - even as our colleges struggle to accommodate a flood of new students.

Guido Pichini, a trustee at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, has been re-elected president of the Pennsylvania Association of Councils of Trustees (PACT), a group that comprises the members of the Councils of Trustees of the 14 Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) universities.

Pichini, who also is a member of PASSHE’s Board of Governors, will begin a second, one-year term as PACT president on July 1.  He was re-elected during PACT’s spring conference held in... to read more