By Harris M. Steinberg More than 1,500 people had packed the Pennsylvania Convention Center, and it was so crowded that they opened an overflow room with a televised link. The November 2007 occasion was the […]

By Harris M. Steinberg More than 1,500 people had packed the Pennsylvania Convention Center, and it was so crowded that they opened an overflow room with a televised link. The November 2007 occasion was the […]
By Jonathan Seitz Pope Francis has finally arrived in the United States and addressed a joint session of Congress. Rep. Paul Gosar, however, announced that he would not be there. The representative from Arizona decried […]
By Susan Aldridge, PhD In today’s ever-evolving workforce, lifelong learning is the key to gainful and fulfilling employment—which is why successful professionals are always on the lookout for quality continuing education, designed to drive career […]
With the recent election in Greece, the country’s radical left Syriza party became the first anti-austerity party to win elections in Europe. The victory of Syriza prime minister candidate Alexis Tsipras has already cast doubts […]
By John A. Fry The “intern economy” is a crumbling monument to short-term thinking. The class-action lawsuit filed in 2010 against Fox Searchlight Pictures by former unpaid interns on the film “Black Swan” set off […]
By Susan Aldridge, PhD For years, we’ve heard that students who learn online cannot possibly develop the same affinity for the institutions they attend as their peers who study on campus. But from where I […]
By Harris M. Steinberg My wife and I are watching HBO’s The Wire for the first time, and it’s shocking how similar the Baltimore that’s depicted in the series is to the Philadelphia that we […]
By Neeta P. Fogg and Paul E. Harrington As 2014 comes to a close and we engage in holiday celebrations with a sense of renewal that typically comes with the beginning of a new year, […]
By Harris Steinberg Close your eyes and imagine a verdant swath of green, located deep in the middle of America’s fifth largest city, that is nearly three times larger than Manhattan’s Central Park, almost four […]
By Neeta Fogg and Paul Harrington Last month, payroll employment levels in the U.S increased by 214,000, as the nation’s unemployment rate edged down to 5.8 percent. At least some commentators were surprised that these […]