Higher Education

For Drexel University Physicians staff and their families who take classes, the planned layoffs and shift to Tower Health may mean end to free tuition.

SEIU filed its labor complaint against Drexel University, CCP, St. Joseph University, Temple University, Temple University Hospital, UPenn, and the UPenn Health system.

From mid-2014 to mid-2016, 3.9 million undergraduates with federal student loan debt dropped out, according to an analysis of federal data by The Hechinger Report.

For years, Cheyney University's been on life support. Now, with a balanced budget & infusion of funds, America's first historically black university could be turning a corner.

Tuition for an in-state full-time student increased to $7,716 annually, last year, which was a 3 percent increase. The cost will remain the same in 2019-20.

Drexel College of Medicine and Hahnemann Hospital announced a shift of most residency programs to Philly region facilities managed by Tower Health.

Lots of people have student loans: more than 45 million people. They collectively owe about $1.6 trillion.

Pennsylvania's colleges and universities have a year to develop online, anonymous reporting systems to receive complaints about sexual assault from students and employees.

The father of modern landscape design wrote the book that set the 1970s environmental movement on course.

Cheyney University came out of the weekend with a pair of victories.

After a sale to a Chinese company fell through, Rider University wants to move Westminster College off its campus of 87 years. A legal challenge mounts.

American research universities are being encouraged to develop protocols for monitoring students and visiting scholars from Chinese state-affiliated research institutions.

The United Negro College Fund recently announced that it has awarded Cheyney University and Lincoln University, two of the nation’s oldest historically black universities.

The Health Department says it plans to approve five more partnerships between marijuana growers and research centers this summer.

After receding from the national stage, the free college movement is resurfacing as a central rallying point for Democrats as they set their sights on the White House.