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Higher Education

Temple first-year student Brianna Boone's home learning setup
Education
Billy Penn

Battling college ‘Zoom exhaustion’: Temple students and profs on a year of online learning

Even when professors make an effort, connections with peers are missing.

4 years ago

Students on the campus of Kutztown University
Health

How COVID-19 made stressing over starting college even more intense

For the Classes of 2020 and 2021, anxiety can be high if you took a gap year, or didn’t. If you applied away from home, or didn’t.

4 years ago

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OHSU School of Medicine student Mollie Marr stands in front of a whiteboard holding a laptop. She helps organize a letter-writing campaign for students to share personal stories about the impact of losing a proposed tax waiver for tuition for graduate students, December 1, 2017. Marr is pursuing her M.D. and her Ph.D. in behavioral neuroscience in the OHSU School of Medicine, and losing the tax waiver could mean dropping out of OHSU. (OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff)
The Pulse
Health

Should medical schools require a standardized test for admission?

The MCAT is supposed to gauge future success. But it can also be a financial barrier to underrepresented groups.

4 years ago

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The goal seemed pretty clear cut, to enroll a medical school class containing at least 3,000 students of color by the year 2000. Why did it fail? (MicroOne / Big Stock Photo)
The Pulse
Health

3000 by 2000: A history of the visionary campaign to diversify med schools, and what got in its way

The goal seemed pretty clear cut, to enroll a medical school class containing at least 3,000 students of color by the year 2000. Why did it fail?

4 years ago

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First day of classes for the Fall 2020 semester: Lydia Timmins, Assistant Professor of Communications, kicks off her Fall Semester 2020 class
Health

Del.’s COVID-19 outbreak started at UD one year ago. Campus life may never be the same

Today marks one year since Del. announced a UD professor tested positive for COVID-19, its first confirmed case. Here’s how the college experience may change permanently.

4 years ago

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Drexel forward T.J. Bickerstaff (23) shoots over Elon forward Simon Wright (33) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game for the Colonial Athletic Association men's tournament championship in Harrisonburg, Va., Tuesday, March 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Daniel Lin)
Community

Drexel’s headed to NCAAs for the first time in 25 years

The Dragons, whose last NCAA appearance came in 1996 as a member of the America East Conference, were 10 of 17 from 3-point range and went 29 of 51 in their three wins.

4 years ago

Rutgers University (Marcus Biddle for WHYY)
Education

Rutgers to divest its $1.6 billion endowment from fossil fuels

The boards of governors and trustees approved a plan to stop any new fossil fuel investments and pull out of index funds and private investments tied to the industry.

4 years ago

Mo Williams
Community

At the NBA All-Star Game, HBCUs will take center stage

Sunday’s All-Star Game in Atlanta is generating $3 million for Historically Black Colleges and Universities, through donations to scholarship funds.

4 years ago

University of Pennsylvania students play a game on a snowy quad. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Community

When campus is not a bubble, how does a university enforce physical distancing rules?

Thousands of university students live in Philadelphia — off campus. Their pandemic parties and study sessions are not pleasing the neighbors.

4 years ago

Villanova University's campus. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Education
NBC10

Villanova student accused of sexually assaulting 4 female students on campus

A spokesperson for Villanova University said they immediately launched an investigation and the male student is no longer on campus.

4 years ago

University of Delaware's campus in Newark
Health

Univ. of Delaware COVID-19 outbreak alarms state officials, spurs tighter campus restrictions

A total of 324 positive test results were reported last week. That’s nearly three times higher than the University of Delaware's previous weekly high in mid-November.

4 years ago

Montgomery County Community College. (Courtesy of Montgomery County Community College)
Education

Montgomery County Community College receives largest gift in school history

The $3 million gift will go toward the new Baker Center of Excellence for Employee Ownership and Business Transformation

4 years ago

First lady Jill Biden's necklace says
Education

Jill Biden pushes free access to community college, training

A longtime community college professor and advocate, the first lady said people struggling to get by during the coronavirus economic slump need access to these schools.

4 years ago

Illustration of college spring semester
NPR
Health

Colleges add more in-person classes for spring, amid high risk of coronavirus spread

Many colleges are starting their spring semester this week, and new data show that schools are bringing students back to campus, with more in-person classes.

4 years ago

A nursing grad student administers COVID-19 tests at Neuman University.
Education

As students return to dorms after COVID spike, Philly colleges implement rapid testing

Some Philly-area college students returned to in-person class last week amid public health experts’ concerns about spreading COVID on campus.

4 years ago

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