More than 100 Philadelphia school students participated in the city’s first 24-hour chess tournament last weekend, aimed at providing an alternative to violence.
Half of the participants spent Friday night playing informal games in the Howard Gittis Student Center, while the other half arrived Saturday morning for the tournament.
Temple hosted theevent, which saw a brief […]

“Day 100 is quite exciting, and we’re only halfway there,” Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter said, speaking to a group of mostly students and professors at the University of Pennsylvania on Tuesday.
The event, titled “The First 100 Days: The Mayor and the Media,” was part of an Urban Studies Conversation series that is open to the […]

More than 1,000 students took part in the university’s fifth-annual Relay for Life to raise money for cancer research.

Politics and comedy make their way to Philadelphia this April, searching for the “truthiness” behind funding in a struggling Pennsylvania education system.
Stephen Colbert, host of The Colbert Report, will be taping in Philadelphia just a week before the state’s Democratic primary, while also raising money to support Pennsylvania public schools.
The show will partner with DonorsChoose.org, […]

Temple’s Philadelphia Scholars program makes college a more accessible dream to public high school students, but Mayor Michael Nutter calls on more followers to increase its impact on the city.
President Ann Weaver Hart announced the new scholarships on Wednesday before a board meeting at the school district’s administrative building, located only a mile from Main […]