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University of Delaware campus
Education

Job cuts planned at University of Delaware as pandemic shortfall grows

The school now expects a budget shortfall as high as $288 million, thanks to a loss of both students and revenue due to the coronavirus pandemic.

6 years ago

A look down Main Street in Kutztown, Pennsylvania. (Matt Smith for Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

A university reopened, COVID spiked, and now a wary college town wonders: What’s next?

The university’s return brought the possibility of economic revival at a time when local businesses need a lift. But locals worry students will spread the virus in town.

6 years ago

Listen 5:29
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the National Museum of American Jewish History. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Courts & Law
NJ Spotlight

Rutgers helped shape Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Watch as former students remember.

Ginsburg shaped her career and found her voice here in New Jersey as a pioneering faculty member at Rutgers Law School in Newark from 1963 to 1972.

6 years ago

Malcolm Kenyatta
Community

North Philly residents demand to be included in search for new Temple University president

A group of Temple faculty, state lawmakers and North Philly residents say the mostly white search committee for a new president needs a shake-up.

6 years ago

In this April 5, 2018, file photo, people walk through the Princeton University campus in Princeton, N.J. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Courts & Law

Princeton faces federal inquiry after acknowledging racism

The U.S. Education Department said the school's acknowledgment of racism conflicts with previous assurances that Princeton complies with federal anti-discrimination laws.

6 years ago

Billy Penn illustration
Community
Billy Penn

This animated map shows the coronavirus surge around Temple in North Philly

Since the university suspended in-person classes, the outbreak appears to be subsiding.

6 years ago

Samantha Rise from Girls Rock Philly
PlanPhilly
Education
Eyes on the Street

Claiming solidarity isn’t enough. Drexel needs to act like Black Lives Matter

Campus activists challenge President John Fry’s commitment to racial justice based on his approach to community policing and development.

6 years ago

Philadelphia University of the Arts
Arts & Entertainment

UArts faculty announce intention to form a labor union

If the unionization effort is successful, it will include both adjunct and full-time faculty across all departments of UArts, estimated to be about 500 people.

6 years ago

Gettysburg College has ordered all of its students to remain at their residences and moved all classes online in measures that began Tuesday.
(John Greim/LightRocket via Getty Images)
NPR
Health

As COVID-19 cases rise, Gettysburg College puts all students on lockdown

After a steady rise in coronavirus cases, Gettysburg College has restricted students to their dormitories and moved all classes online in a sweeping quarantine.

6 years ago

Temple University campus
Community

Why did Temple reopen in person? Some wonder as COVID-19 outbreak forces changed plans

The university announced most classes will go online to limit the spread of the coronavirus on campus. The school has reported more than 200 active cases.

6 years ago

Deb Lemieur is a Temple professor who's been against in person classes since the pandemic began. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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.

6 years ago

Students on campus at the University of Georgia in Athens
NPR
Community

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?

6 years ago

Coronavirus safety sign at Temple University
Community

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.

6 years ago

FILE - In this April 18, 2019, file photo shows a sign for Zoom Video Communications ahead Nasdaq IPO in New York.  (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
Education

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.

6 years ago

In this Wednesday, March 18, 2020, file photo, people remove belongings on campus at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., amid the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
Education

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.

6 years ago

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