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Three East Stroudsburg University Clear Path scholars and their professor attended the S-STEM Scholars Symposium in Washington, D.C. September 14-16. Clear Path, a $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSH), provides scholarships to students to support the timely completion of their STEM associate and subsequent STEM bachelor’s degrees through the implementation of an evidence-based, sustainable, transferrable program that maximizes student success. The grant is a partnership among ESU and Northampton Community College, Lehigh Carbon Community College, Luzerne Community College, and Community College of Morris.

You’re not alone if you complained about reading The Great Gatsby this summer.

According to HuffPost, Students in 64 percent of Catholic schools, 49 percent of independent schools, and 54 percent of public schools were all required to read the novel, and that doesn’t even include all those classes in which teachers are not required to teach the novel.  

Narrated by Nick Carraway, The Great Gatsby tells the story of Jay Gatsby’s chase for love and status in Long Island. His struggles to join high society and finally reunite with his past love, Daisy Buchanan, inevitably end up in his demise. 

The novel demonstrates how consumerism took over American culture in the 1920s and changed the ideal American dream, even to this day.