With the recent assassination of Charlie Kirk in still in the news I thought I would take a look at his organization Turning Point USA in the Alleghenies. According to their map of chapters there are 27 chapters in the region. Of these, 18 are on college campuses, 5 are in high schools and 4 […]

Back in June I posted about how my high school Alma Mater Bishop McCort had over 46% of its senior class in the National Honor Society (NHS) in its 2017 graduating class.  McCort, in it’s alumni news letter, just published the list of the 2018 graduating class with NHS membership and the college that they […]

Two years ago I followed up my post on McCort graduating class year and National Honor Society (NHS) membership with the types ofcolleges that they were admitted to.  This year I found a greater percentage of the 2017 graduating class with NHS membership.  I thought I would take a look how it looks for college admission for […]

In my last post I showed that there was a higher percentage of students at Bishop McCort High School in the national honor society (NHS) in the class of 2016 than in the late 1980’s when I was there.  This week I thought I would take a deeper look at which colleges the classmates were […]

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett, in his zeal to hold the line on taxes, is requiring even more cuts in higher education which are forcing the state related universities (Pitt, Penn State, Temple, and Lincoln) to consider going private which would mean a drastic rise in tuition (Carnegie Mellon charges about $50,000/year for tuition room and […]

Last week I received the quarterly alumni magazine from the University where I received my undergraduate degree, Indiana University of Pennsylvania (our most famous alumnus would be Newt Gingrich’s lesbian half sister Candice) in 1993 in Psychology.  It included a chart showing how the makeup of the campus has changed in the last decade.  The […]