Higher Education

Go to med school, earn an M.D. and the “Dr.” honorific gets tacked on to your last name. Some women — and Ph.D.s — say they get the courtesy title, and respect, less often.

Higher education in N.J. is hobbled by inequities that leave many minority students ill-equipped for college and the job market, authors contend.

A string of guilty pleas has left just five defendants still fighting charges in the hazing-related death of Tim Piazza, a pledge at a Penn State fraternity two years ago.

About $1 million dollars is going out to 38 colleges around the Commonwealth to fund efforts against campus sexual assault.

The rate for parking at newly metered spaces on Widener University campus will be $2 an hour.

KIPP Philadelphia heard from too many alumni who were leaving college for financial reasons. It’s now giving out scholarships to fix that.

The company will focus on recruiting students, graduates, and others in the area to work on artificial intelligence, which powers features such as 'smart reply' in Gmail.

The piece engaged 80,000 passers-by who stopped specifically to look at the sculpture or ask about it over three months.

The athletic center will be named after 1980 UD graduate Ken Whitney and his wife Elizabeth, who donated $10 million to help fund the construction.

Technology is seen as key to lessening the effects of climate change.

The U.S. Department of Education is sending emails to about 15,000 people who took out loans for colleges that shut down between Nov. 1, 2013, and Dec. 4, 2018.

University President Dennis Assanis salutes the former vice president's role in bringing the school added prominence.

Wells Fargo charges students the most in fees on average to have a bank account, according to a government report.

The New Jersey superintendent salary cap instead resulted in a higher probability that superintendents across the state would quit.

One national survey of freshmen found that about 9 percent were undecided; after they’ve picked a major, one third change their minds at least once.