Ann Dugan founded the University of Pittsburgh’s Institute for Entrepreneurial Excellence 20 years ago after an intense debate over whether or not self-employment was indeed a legitimate means to economic...

One of the few things more American than apple pie and reality TV is our traditional faith in meritocracy.It is embedded in our country’s very foundation, and it continues to be the key ingredient in...

The Roman orator Cicero once cautioned, “He who does not know what happened before his birth will remain forever a child.”Now that the administration of the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences has...

In a survey released Tuesday, The Institute of International Education announced that in the 2012-2013 school year, the United States housed 819,644 international students. That’s a 7 percent increase...

The United States successfully terminated another terrorist by drone strike last week, as it has done every week for the past decade, so this statement should not surprise you. However, this wasn’t just...

The mega health care system, UPMC, is in the news again, not for any reason that touts its health services, but rather, for one that advances the narrative that the company pays no regard to its employees.Earlier...

On Nov. 5, Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was overwhelmingly re-elected as governor of a state that only a year ago re-elected a Democrat, President Barack Obama. How could this be?Since he...

Mayor-elect Bill Peduto is wasting no time: As of yesterday, he is fielding applications from residents of Pittsburgh to join eight transition teams that his administration has organized in an attempt...

Think back to junior year of high school. Your parents and guidance counselors had just begun asking you to consider where you might want to attend college.But this proved no easy task. The heaps of college...