Delaware young people aged 18-25 who responded to a survey by career.io asking their preferred university and preferred first employer, chose the University of Delaware + DuPont combination as their top career path. The second and third combination among young Delawareans was Delaware State + Navient (student loan servicing company) and Goldey-Beacom College to W.L. Gore & Associates. There was …
Coach, 2 young skaters with ties to UD die in D.C. plane crash
Three First Staters tied to the University of Delaware tragically died in the Wednesday night air crash near Washington D.C. that left 67 dead. Former UD Figure Skating Club Coach Sasha Kirsanov and competitive figure skaters Sean Kay and Angela Yang died in the American Airlines flight traveling from Wichita, Kansas when it collided with an army helicopter just before …
Lerner College and Charles Schwab to Launch Financial Planning Center at UD this fall
NEWARK — The University of Delaware’s Lerner College of Business and Economics is partnering with Charles Schwab to create a new Financial Planning Center that will open this fall at the STAR Campus FinTech Innovation Hub. The Center will enable senior financial planning majors to provide peer-to-peer coaching to fellow students on such topics as student loan repayment, 401k investing, …
Educators grapple with how to use AI in Delaware classrooms
Every conversation with leaders from nine Delaware colleges and high schools about artificial intelligence’s presence in the classroom reveals unique ways the evolving technology is being used. It’s created a problem for schools and colleges wrestling with setting up their guardrails and adopting recent guidance published by the Delaware Department of Education. “AI has been in the education space for …
Delaware Roundup: 38 (Really) Quick Reads (11/15)
The Delaware Roundup is published every weekend. Send submissions for News Briefs and Calendar items to editor@delawarelive.com. If possible, please forward submissions within the email or in a Word document. BUSINESS Cover & Rossiter, one of Wilmington’s oldest full-service accounting firms will merge with and be rebranded by the Bonadio Group, which will help Upstate New York’s largest professional services firm …
SBDC gets $200,000 federal grant to help underserved communities
The Delaware Small Business Development Center (SBDC) is getting $200,000 in federal money as part of a larger $9 million grant to help underserved communities access development funding and innovative research. The grant is part of a five-year federal program that runs through 2029, said Mike Bowman, director of the center and associate director of the Office of Economic Innovation …
State board’s new student rep. focus on STEM, mental health
Caesar Rodney High School senior Sage Sawhney has always had a passion for service and promoting student well-being, and he hopes to carry that into a new position at the state level. Sawhney thought he had no shot being selected among a pool of nearly 50 applicants to be the lone student representative on the Delaware State Board of Education. …
How is state grad. rate 88% with 31% math proficiency, 41% ELA?
Although just 31% of students in Delaware are proficient in math and 41% are proficient in English language arts, the graduation rate in First State high schools is 88%. “While Delaware’s graduation rate is encouraging, understanding achievement requires a deeper look at student growth throughout their K-12 experience,” said Julia Keleher, chief strategy and operating officer for First State Educate, …
UD, DSU raise tuition for next year, Del Tech stays the same
The cost of going to college in Delaware has gone up – again. For what seems to be a yearly tradition at this point, a couple of the state’s institutions of higher education have announced tuition increases for the 2024-2025 academic year. University of Delaware UD will bump tuition up 4% for next year, after implementing a 5% hike this …
Colleges, DOE ask for hundreds of millions for capital projects
The big three institutions of higher education in the First State along with the Delaware Department of Education on Thursday asked for a combined $300 million from the state for capital improvement projects. As the state’s General Assembly prepares its budget for fiscal year 2025, which starts July 1, the University of Delaware, Delaware State University and Del Tech all …