Higher Education

The new Steve Sweeney Center for Public Policy at Rowan University is billed as bringing pragmatic solutions to New Jersey issues.

Thomas Jefferson University coach Herb Magee has retired after a Hall of Fame career. He went 1,144-450 in 54 seasons at the Philadelphia school.

Alina Bushma is playing for Drexel in this weekend's Collegiate Squash Championships. Her parents and two grandparents have remained in Kyiv since the Russian invasion.

Once heralded as a training ground for educators, Cheyney University is taking steps to increase racial diversity in the teacher workforce.

The Penn initiative has produced projects including a giant Brita filter for the Schuylkill River and a kids book about friendly river creatures.

Under the Scarlet Guarantee, tuition is free for undergraduate students making less than $65,000 a year.

First-time students at Community College of Philadelphia honor civil rights activist Octavius Catto using a scholarship in his name to get an education.

With the pause on student loan payments now set to expire at the beginning of May, people are anxious and scammers are swooping in.

Thomas continued her strong showing at the Ivy League swimming championships, setting more records while claiming her second title two days.

Lena Champlin, Jeremy Wortzel, and the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry wrote a children’s book about climate change and anxiety.

The governor hopes to start a new scholarship program for college students. Pa. still ranks at the bottom among states in the level of aid it offers for higher education.

Fueled by the national reckoning with racial injustice, opponents say they are gaining momentum in the battle over the contentious policy of legacy preferences.

“It's unfortunate that she is under this incredible microscope,” said a researcher about the flurry of debate over Thomas’ participation.

An advocacy group for college athletes has filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board. The goal is to give employee status to college athletes.

Lawyers for Xiaoxing Xi and his wife say in a brief filed Monday with a Philadelphia-based appeals court that a judge erred last year when he dismissed most of the claims.