Higher Education
Temple profs, students question pandemic plan after university suspends in-person classes
Temple professors, students and area residents are questioning why the university thought in-person learning would be safe after a spike in COVID-19 cases.
4 years ago
Preventing college parties? Shame and blame don’t work, but beer pong outside might
With desperate pleas and social contracts failing to curb college parties, schools have turned to punitive consequences. But are the students the ones to blame?
4 years ago
Temple University suspends in-person classes after 103 test positive for COVID-19
All instruction except “essential” classes will take place online through at least Sept. 11, after 103 Temple students tested positive for the coronavirus.
4 years ago
Zoom suffers outage as students start classes online
Technical issues are occurring across the U.S., with the most reports on the East Coast, as well as in Europe.
4 years ago
As more colleges stay online, students demand tuition cuts
Disputes are flaring both at colleges that announced weeks ago they would stick with virtual instruction and at those that only recently lost hope of reopening their campuses.
4 years ago
Loughlin, Giannulli get prison time in college bribery plot
“Full House” actor Lori Loughlin must serve two months in prison and her fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, must serve five months.
4 years ago
Giannulli sentenced to 5 months in college bribery scheme
The couple funneled money through a sham charity operated by college admissions consultant Rick Singer to get their two daughters into USC as crew recruits.
4 years ago
Drexel University undergraduate students to stay home this fall
Drexel will also cancel the tuition increase and implement a tuition freeze for all undergraduate students in the fall 2020 term to help them deal with financial difficulties.
4 years ago
Colleges grapple with coronavirus as students return
In the past few days alone, college students at schools in North Carolina, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Vermont, Kansas, Colorado and at the Air Force Academy have tested positive.
4 years ago
Penn State reverses course, plans to provide modified COVID-19 agreement for students
The original agreement required students to “assume any and all risk” of COVID-19, which some said amounted to a liability waiver.
4 years ago
Community College of Philadelphia dean discusses decision to move classes fully online
Community College of Philadelphia Dean of Liberal Studies Chae Sweet discusses moving classes fully online for the upcoming school year.
4 years ago
Listen 5:56Students at Penn State forced to sign COVID-19 liability waiver to participate in fall semester
“I assume any and all risk of exposure to COVID-19 that may result from attending Penn State, or participating in Penn State activities,” the compact says.
4 years ago
No parties, no trips: Colleges set COVID-19 rules for fall
Critics question whether it's realistic to demand that college students not act like typical college students. The push illustrates the high stakes for universities this fall.
4 years ago
Marchers push Drexel, Penn to dissolve private police forces by 2025
Residents near Philly’s colleges and universities have long complained of racial profiling by campus police, who are less accountable to the public.
4 years ago
Lincoln U. board votes to reinstate president Brenda Allen
The board, which originally named Allen the university's 14th president in 2017, voted about a month ago not to renew her contract, offering no explanation.
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