At the Superstars in Education & Training Awards Reception last week the Delaware State Chamber of Commerce’s workforce development affiliate, The Partnership, Inc., honored Dr. Dennis Loftus with the John H. Taylor, Jr. Education Leadership Award for his commitment, leadership, guidance, and contributions to the education system in Delaware.
Over the course of his 50-plus-year career, Loftus was...
Four candidates for the position of dean of the University of Delaware Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics at the University of Delaware will visit the campus and participate in town hall meetings open to the University community beginning Wednesday, May 3.
Reporting directly to the provost, the dean is a key member of the University’s senior administrative team...
Delaware State University has announced a new partnership with the U.S. Army Cadet Command that will expand the University’s Aviation Program into helicopter flight training.
Helicopter instruction will expand the Aviation Program’s Professional Pilot discipline that will not only provide helicopter training to U.S. Army ROTC students, but also later will be an option for all undergraduate aviation majors as well. The...
Activists partnering with Citizens for Judicial Fairness volunteers claimed their rights were violated when they were driven from a University of Delaware campus location.
The group protested the lack of people of color in the Delaware legal system outside a University of Delaware event that featured both the Chief Justice and the former Chief Justice of the Delaware Supreme...
Goldey-Beacom College (GBC) has been named an Emerging Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) by the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU).
In 2021-22, there were 572 institutions that met the definition of an HSI compared to 559 in 2020-21. HSIs are defined as having 25% or more undergraduate Hispanic student full-time equivalent (FTE) enrollment. In 2021-22, HSIs enrolled 65.6% of all Hispanic...
Delaware officials Monday announced a program to build awareness of a low-cost home Internet program.
On hand for the announcement in Dover was Gov. John Carney, central and southern Delaware city officials, and representatives for Verizon and Comcast.
The Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) is part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law that lowers or eliminates the cost of broadband service for...
Lt. Gov. Bethany Hall-Long joined NFL Hall of Famer, and Delaware native Randy White at the DIAA women’s high school basketball semi-finals on Wednesday to announce a new statewide initiative to curb prescription drug abuse in Delaware. The “Bench Opioids” initiative is a prevention and drug disposal blitz targeting opioid abuse and overdose deaths, especially...
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia President Patrick Harker continues to see the anchor economy or "eds and meds" as a key component of the economy.
Speaking at the annual Economic Forecast sponsored by the Lerner College at the University of Delaware and Lyons Companies on Wedneday Harker said education and health care are key elements of...
Philadelphia Federal Reserve President Patrick Harker offered a modestly upbeat outlook for the economy, while warning that higher interest rates won't go away anytime soon.
Harker spoke Wednesday at the Economic Forecast sponsored by the University of Delaware Lerner Business and Economics & The Lyons Companies. The setting was the office tower University of STAR campus on the south...
Gov. John Carney on Tuesday announced significant investments in public education across Delaware. Investments that will be included in the Fiscal Year 2024 budget are:
A 3 percent raise for all who work in public education.
A 9 percent raise for teachers.
An increase of $15 million to Opportunity Funding, totaling $53 million.
A $3 million investment in the Wilmington Learning Collaborative, totaling $10 million.
“I...
Center will focus on health disparities in Kent and Sussex
Delaware State University has received a five-year, $18.36 million research grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that will support the establishment of the Interdisciplinary Health Equity Research Center on campus.
This NIH funding is the largest research grant ever awarded to Delaware State University in its 131-year history, surpassing...
President Joe Biden is expected to spend the weekend at the family's home near Rehoboth Beach.
Flight restrictions are in place in the Rehoboth area from Friday through Sunday.
The president is scheduled to speak on the student loan forgiveness order at Delaware State University on Friday.
Biden has ties with the HBCU and its president Tony Allen, a friend and...
The University of Delaware has launched the new Center for Clean Hydrogen to accelerate the transition to clean energy by reducing the cost of hydrogen and hydrogen-related technologies.
Fueled by an initial $10 million in funding from the Department of Defense, the center will be led at UD by Yushan Yan, Henry Belin du Pont chair of Chemical and Biomolecular...
Wilmington University has hired a dean for a new law school.
A luncheon on Oct. 27 will introduce the dean and the law school. The event will be held at its campus off Route 202 near the Delaware-Pennsylvania line.
The Wilmington University law school will be the second in Delaware, joining the Delaware Law School of Widener University.
Over the...
Delaware First Health CEO named
Delaware First Health announced that Bill Wison has been appointed as Plan President and Chief Executive Officer.
Wilson brings over 25 years of healthcare and finance leadership experience and nearly 15 years as a managed care executive. Most recently, Wilson served as the Chief Financial Officer for Managed Health Services, Centene's Indiana health plan.
Delaware First Health was recently selected by...
