Education
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Eagles Hope Super Bowl Path Lined With College Graduates
A new strategy is driving the selection of the newest additions to the Philadelphia Eagles roster, and it has little to do with traditional measures of athletic success. “When you look at people who are successful in any profession, it always goes back to college graduates,” Eagles General Manager Howie Roseman said in a Wall…
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Homegrown Leader Ed Herr Addresses Immaculata Graduates
The homegrown leader of Chester County’s own potato chip giant, Herr Foods Inc., was slated to share a few recipes for success with new graduates of Immaculata University last weekend. For Ed Herr, two of the key ingredients have been a love of honest hard work and a love of people, according to an interview…
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Brandywine Chapter of PA Restaurant & Lodging Association To Award $3,600 In Student Scholarships
The Brandywine Chapter of the Pennsylvania Restaurant & Lodging Association (PRLA) will give $3,600 in scholarships to four students from Coatesville and West Chester in an awards ceremony at Embassy Suites Hotel Wayne on May 13 The recipients are Mark Schostak of West Chester, who plans to pursue a bachelor’s degree in restaurant management at…
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Ready Nation Encourages Businesses To Invest In Preschool Education
Ready Nation/America’s Edge, a business organization working to strengthen business through better policies for children and youth, is inviting businesses to invest in preschool education – for their own economic success. According to the United Way of Chester County, fewer than 1 percent of local children living at or near poverty attend Head Start or…
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Precyse University Of Wayne Partners With 50,000 ‘Disruptive’ Athenahealth Providers
Precyse University, an innovative online learning portal helping health care professionals update their medical coding, has partnered with Athenahealth, Inc. to link its network of more than 50,000 health care providers in preparing for the October transition to ICD-10. This October the health care industry must shift International Classification of Diseases (ICD) coding from ICD-9…
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WCU Briefly: Two-Time Grammy Winner Coming to Campus on Monday
Wells School of Music West Chester University’s music students, as well as members of the community, have an opportunity to learn from a master when composer Jennifer Higdon comes to campus on Monday, Feb 18. Higdon is a two-time Grammy-winning composer, as well as a Pulitzer Prize winner, with local ties. Her works are performed…
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West Chester Man Donates $1 Million to His Alma Mater in Honor of His ‘Legendary’ Kin
Nicholas Giuffre – the recently retired CEO of Bradford White, a major water-heater company – has donated $1 million to the new Springfield High School to name two of its facilities after his mother, a former lunch lady in the school district, and mother-in-law, a former bus driver, writes Kathy Boccella for the Philadelphia Inquirer.…
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