PhillyDeals: Gearing up for big expansion of Drexel’s neighborhood [Philadelphia Inquirer] “Defying dire predictions for private colleges in the slow-growing Northeast, Drexel president John Fry hopes to boost enrollment one-third in the next seven years, to 34,000. Drexel is already ringed with cranes building high-rise dorms and apartments. Fry wants to add companies that hire Drexel kids, firms started by Drexel scholars, labs, entertainment, shopping, and hotels. And to build them conveniently close to where Amtrak, the airport, SEPTA, and the interstate ramps deliver people.”
Could ‘cyber snow days’ become reality for schools in Pa.? [Newsworks] “If one Western Pennsylvania state senator has his way, snow-related school cancellations as we know them could be a thing of the past. But the idea raises all sorts of issues of equity and logistics.”
Google lobbies Delaware’s proposed Google Glass ban [Newsworks]
AT&T makes billion-dollar infrastructure investments in PA, NJ [Philadelphia Business Journal]
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