Higher Education

A new study highlights growing concerns as students face rising costs, limited on-campus options and increasing financial strain.

One researcher described it as a “particularly insidious way” to stymie the work of U.S. scientists.

The investigation at Penn focuses on Lia Thomas, who swam on the school’s women’s team and was the first openly transgender athlete to win a Division I title in 2022.

Last year, the state passed a budget with record education spending. Shapiro is asking for more money for education, including more than $500 million more for schools in need.

Temple student Aidan Steigelmann is charged with impersonating a public servant and has been placed on interim suspension by the university.

“It feels like a punch in the gut,” said Rutgers professor Marybeth Gasman after a session catering to students from historically Black colleges had to be abruptly canceled.

Hussian College owners are seeking $162 million in damages, claiming executives enriched themselves with unauthorized bonuses while the school plunged toward closure in 2023.

Attorneys representing 200,000 students alleged that 17 schools, including Penn, favored wealthy students in financial aid and admissions decisions over a 20-year period.

The announcement came soon after the findings of an external investigation — prompted by multiple complaints filed by Rutgers gymnasts — were made public.

The old University of the Arts campus is up for sale, but the judge might not approve all for-profit developers bidding for a slice of it.

Dr. Larry Kaiser, former head of Temple Health Services, will lead the historic medical society and museum through a turbulent transition.

Dozens of artists impacted by the closure of the University of the Arts submitted work to what might be their last collective exhibition.

The University of Pennsylvania said the new filings in a 2022 class-action lawsuit were meant to embarrass the schools. Ten have agreed to settlements.

“I really ask a lot of questions around place, taste and urban change and whose tastes and cultural identities get to shape public space,” Matthew Jordan-Miller Kenyatta said.

The 20,000-square-foot learning center features pasta and chocolate laboratories and a wood-burning pizza oven.