“You Can’t Be Denied If You Haven’t Applied”

Penn and the Heights have launched a program to help high schoolers navigate their way through college applications. A longtime university president visited a classroom at Carver to learn more

By Elaine Maimon

War on Antisemitism — or Distraction from Bigotry?

A longtime university president calls out the hypocrisy of Trump’s campaign to protect Jewish students

By Elaine Maimon
Ideas We Should Steal Festival 2025

Hope Chicago, Multigenerational College Access

Hope Chicago offers free college for public school students and one member of their family to break the cycle of poverty. Chief Program Officer Michele Howard will talk about its success at The Citizen’s 8th annual Ideas We Should Steal Festival November 14.

By Elaine Maimon

Young People, You Can Do Well and Do Good

Being young is hard these days. That’s why a longtime university president recommends a life in public service.

By Elaine Maimon

The Perils of Patronage

Penn this week refused preferential treatment from Trump that could jeopardize science funding. A longtime university president urges push-back on favoritism wherever it happens

By Elaine Maimon

In College Admissions, Bullies Win

A longtime university president urges the College Board to restore a tool that helped universities like Swarthmore and Haverford admit more low-income students

By Elaine Maimon
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Celebrate Constitution Day by Defending our Founding Document

The unsung holiday — this week — is more important than ever this year, argues a longtime university president, who suggests an inspiring visit to an Independence Mall institution

By Elaine Maimon

Partisanship Has No Place in College Loans

President Trump is rescinding loan forgiveness for people who he thinks flout his politics — including possibly Philly public school teachers. A longtime university president cries foul

By Elaine Maimon
Ideas We Should Steal

Uniting Higher Ed To Protect Science, Education — and Democracy

A longtime university president calls on Pennsylvania colleges to follow the lead of UCLA and the Big Ten by joining together to fight attacks on higher ed

By Elaine Maimon

Is Trump Targeting Welders Now?

A provision of the President’s One Big Ugly Act threatens to disrupt shipbuilding at Philly’s Navy Yard. A longtime university president bemoans yet another attack on post-high school education

By Elaine Maimon