Higher Education

Students would be required to develop a plan for completing their studies that college officials would monitor

The 14 Pennsylvania state universities hope to reduce the number of university faculty members by offering an incentive for professors eligible for retirement.

The felony theft charges come roughly three months after Drexel University agreed to pay the federal government nearly $190,000 to avoid a potential lawsuit.

A state program is doling out $5 million to encourage professionals to help curb the overdose crisis.

Former Bank of America executive who has been Del State’s provost, Allen says he’s committed to continue diversifying the historically black university.

Airlines need 800,000 new pilots in the next 20 years, but flight schools and air time are expensive. A new aviation program hopes to change that.

This fall, there were nearly 250,000 fewer students enrolled in college than a year ago, according to new numbers from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.

Efforts are increasing to help students who aren’t getting enough nutritious food; by one estimate, as many as one-third suffer from ‘food insecurity’

Documents obtained by NPR shed new light on a bitter fight between defrauded student borrowers and U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.

The children’s book artist is a pioneer in African American literature.

Students at Westminster Choir College worry an address change will mean the end, with nine months to move, and no shovels in the ground.

The University of the Sciences hired a pharmacy historian to comb through its 200-year-old archive.

Economists say the dramatic proposals from Sanders and Warren to free millions of Americans from the burden of student debt could boost the economy in significant ways.

Cheyney University will keep its accreditation, state leaders and university administrators announced in a letter to faculty, staff and students on Monday.