A mobile museum dedicated to teaching the history and horrors of the Holocaust is coming to Delaware. Americans and the Holocaust, a traveling museum exhibition from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the American Library Association, is making its way to the Hirons Library of Goldey-Beacom College in Wilmington. It will be on display from Jan. 11 to Feb. 22, …
Study: Goldey-Beacom best at giving hand up economic ladder
For the second year in a row, Goldey-Beacom College has ranked in the top 20% of national colleges and universities for helping make students economically mobile. Goldey-Beacom also was the only Delaware college that Washington, DC think tank Third Way assigned to the Institution of Higher Education’s Tier 1 ranking. “The data show Goldey-Beacom’s EMI ranking at 24.7% with a …
Goldey-Beacom’s endowment helps it rank high for upward mobility
Goldey-Beacom College’s president says the school’s use of its endowment to commit to affordable tuition landed it in the top 20% of a think tank ranking of economic mobility for institutions of higher learning. The ranking comes from Washington D.C.’s center-left think tank Third Way. It takes into consideration the amount of time it takes low-income students to recoup the …
DSU rises to No. 2 public HBCU in college rankings
Delaware State University rose one place to No. 2 in the U.S. News & World Report college rankings of the nation’s best public Historically Black Colleges and Universities. The Dover-based school also rose to No. 8 from No. 10 among all HBCUs. The ranking reflects DSU’s journey of progress, said DSU President Tony Allen. “We believe what we’re doing …