Maddie Aiken

3 days ago | post-gazette.com | Maddie Aiken |Megan Tomasic

At the end of every school year, students can often be awarded with medals or certificates for their achievements. But on a recent Friday, a group of Sto-Rox students were handed something different — cash prizes. The cash prizes — which ranged from $50 to $5,000 — were for winners of the People Rising in Determined Effort, or PRIDE, a new program at Sto-Rox High School that started this past spring.

2 weeks ago | post-gazette.com | Megan Tomasic |Maddie Aiken

Standing in a Penn State Fayette classroom surrounded by half a million dollars’ worth of educational medical equipment, Melissa Miner says she once envisioned that the rural campus — located in an aging region with five nearby healthcare systems — could be transformed into a health education hub for southwestern Pennsylvania.

2 weeks ago | lancasterfarming.com | Maddie Aiken

May 22—Penn State's Board of Trustees opted to shutter seven of the university's branch campuses during a virtual meeting Thursday evening, despite statewide outcry that the plan could betray the university's mission to offer an accessible public education and devastate education and economic mobility in the state's rural communities. Three campuses in Western Pennsylvania — New Kensington, Fayette and Shenango in Sharon — are now slated to close after the 2026-27 academic year.

2 weeks ago | centredaily.com | Maddie Aiken

May 22-Penn State's Board of Trustees opted to shutter seven of the university's branch campuses during a virtual meeting Thursday evening, despite statewide outcry that the plan could betray the university's mission to offer an accessible public education and devastate education and economic mobility in the state's rural communities. Three campuses in Western Pennsylvania - New Kensington, Fayette and Shenango in Sharon - are now slated to close after the 2026-27 academic year.

2 weeks ago | post-gazette.com | Maddie Aiken

Penn State’s Board of Trustees opted to shutter seven of the university’s branch campuses during a virtual meeting Thursday evening, despite statewide outcry that the plan could betray the university’s mission to offer an accessible public education and devastate education and economic mobility in the state’s rural communities. Three campuses in Western Pennsylvania — New Kensington, Fayette and Shenango in Sharon — are now slated to close after the 2026-27 academic year.