Bryn Mawr College has announced the loss of yet another top administrator - its third in less than a month - in what has become an unusually high turnover in leadership at the women’s college.

Michele Rasmussen, dean of the undergraduate college, has accepted the position of dean of students for the University of Chicago.

Just last week, the college announced that Laurie Koehler, dean of admissions and interim dean of enrollment, was leaving to become senior associate provost for enrollment management at The George Washington University.

Fired Arcadia University President Carl “Tobey” Oxholm III said he was cut off from the university’s email system and told by board leadership that they “object” to his returning to campus even to say goodbye.

His comments were included in an email addressed to “friends and colleagues” at Arcadia sent Tuesday evening and obtained by The Inquirer.

“I was told by one knowledgeable trustee that the reason was that they feared I would have upset the students too much,” Oxholm wrote.

The secretary of the Department of Homeland Security will be at Drexel University this afternoon to announce the six universities that will become part of a new program to improve safety and security at the nation’s colleges.

Drexel University is widely believed to be one of the universities that will be named for the “Campus Resilience Pilot Program.”

Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano will announce the campuses and the intention of the program at Drexel this afternoon. She will be joined by Drexel President John A. Fry.

The Community College of Philadelphia is starting a new program to assist community volunteers who help neighbors and first-generation college students get to and through college.

 The program is called “Pathfinders,” named for the volunteers who “work behind the scenes” to assist students in their college-going quests.

 A kick-off event will be held from 5:15 to 6:30 p.m. on April 8 at the college’s welcome center, in the Pavilion Building, 17th Street south of Spring Garden Street. Community college graduate Christopher Thomas, who now attends the University of Pennsylvania, will speak at the event. Thomas, 37, was featured in an article in The Philadelphia Inquirer about students who go from community college to the Ivy League.

Another top administrator is leaving Bryn Mawr College.

Laurie Koehler, dean of admissions and interim dean of enrollment, will become senior associate provost for enrollment management at The George Washington University, Bryn Mawr announced.

Earlier this month, the college’s board of trustees announced that Bryn Mawr President Jane McAuliffe would step down June 30. Her five-year tenure is the shortest in the selective women college’s history.  Neither McAuliffe or the college have elaborated on the reasons for her departure.

Both the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton released statistics Thursday on their accepted students for fall 2013. Both universities will release their admission decisions online, beginning at 5 p.m. on Thursday.

Penn said it accepted 3,785 students, or 12.1 percent of applicants. That includes both early decision and regular decision applicants. The admission rate for regular decision alone was 9.4 percent, the university said.

The target size of the freshman class for the Ivy League university is 2,420 students. More than 31,280 students applied for admission, Penn said.

UPDATE: Temple University's director of undergraduate admissions, Karin Mormando,  offers a comment on "Admission" movie.

"What I like about 'Admission' was that it captured that sense of advocacy — albeit in an exaggerated, Hollywood way — both on the part of admissions officers, who advocate on behalf of the students they want to admit, and on the part of the high school counselors, who advocate for their students to help them find the best fit. That advocacy is a big part of why I like my job. You meet families at open house, you advocate for them, and then if you're lucky, you get to see them again on move-in day.

"What was disheartening about the movie was when the counselor didn't get the response she wanted about her son, she snuck into the computer and changed the decision. That made my heart sink. That's not how an admissions officer works. That was disappointing. We would never do that."

UPDATE, 2:30 p.m.: Looks like La Salle University's student journalists will be heading to L.A. to cover the Explorers in the Sweet Sixteen. They have surpased their fundraising goal.

The students have raised $5,990 from 154 people, according to their fundraising site.

EARLIER:

More than 50,000 students have enrolled in five Massive Open Online Courses being offered by Pennsylvania State University in partnership with Coursera, the university said this month.

The enrollments in courses on art introduction, geospatial science, creativity and innovation, the future of energy and the dynamics of epidemcs have occurred since Feb. 21.

The most popular course is Creativity, Innovation and Change, which has attracted more than 18,000 students, the university said in story posted on its web site. Kathryn Jablokow, associate professor of mechanical engineering and engineering design and one of the instructors, said the course will teach students to develop their own “brand of creativity.”