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University of Delaware (DAPSS Yearbook/Flickr)
Education

New effort to curb unruly parties at the University of Delaware

Newark is taking aim at the University of Delaware’s party school reputation with a new ordinance to combat unruly ‘super parties.’

6 years ago

Listen 0:53
Sharell Reddin was the president of the Student Government Association when Cheyney University celebrated its 180th anniversary in 2017 under a cloud of uncertainty. (Emily Cohen for WHYY)
The Why
Education

Can Cheyney survive? Why America’s first historically black university is struggling

Over the last several years, Cheyney University has struggled to stay afloat. Now, it looks like it has a recovery plan. Will it survive and what's at stake for students?

Air Date: March 13, 2019

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FBI Special Agent in Charge Boston Division Joseph Bonavolonta, (left), and U.S. Attorney for District of Massachusetts Andrew Lelling, (right), face reporters as they announce indictments in a sweeping college admissions bribery scandal during a news conference, Tuesday, March 12, 2019, in Boston. (Steven Senne/AP Photo)
Courts & Law

Celebs, coaches charged in college bribery scheme

Federal authorities called it the biggest college admissions scam ever prosecuted by the U.S. Justice Department, with parents paying an estimated $25 million in bribes.

6 years ago

Attendants watch the showcase of a live video conference during an open house event at the Northern Pennsylvanian Regional College in Warren, Pa. (Photo by Min Xian/Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Challenged by college cost and access, students in rural Pa. find tech-based alternative

Students in rural Pennsylvania face two big obstacles to college completion: cost and access. A new college is out to change that.

6 years ago

This Feb. 6, 2015, file photo shows a measles, mumps and rubella vaccine on a countertop at a pediatrics clinic in Greenbrae, Calif.  The U.S. has counted more measles cases in the first two months of this year than in all of 2017 — and part of the rising threat is misinformation that makes some parents balk at a crucial vaccine, federal health officials told Congress Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019. (Eric Risberg/AP Photo, File)
Health

After mumps outbreak, Temple will require new students to be vaccinated

The university is preparing, in case there are more cases of the flulike illness as students return from spring break. Current policy doesn’t require them to be vaccinated.

6 years ago

(Maria Fabrizio for NPR)
NPR
Education

One reason rural students don’t go to college: Colleges don’t go to them

"People tend to overlook the rural areas. I think it's kind of disappointing because some able students could get looked over."

6 years ago

Cheyney University President Aaron Walton describes the school's plan to secure solvency and accreditaton. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Cheyney plans sweeping changes to secure its future — and accreditation

As it faces a November decision on whether it will keep its accreditation, the school plans an aggressive fundraising campaign and several partnerships.

6 years ago

In this Feb. 14, 2019 photo, Jennifer Gilbert Jenkins, assistant professor at the State University of New York Morrisville displays some cannabis seeds at the university in Morrisville, N.Y. In upstate New York, the state college in Morrisville is launching a cannabis studies minor in the horticulture department. (Mary Esch/AP Photo)
Education

Higher education: Colleges add cannabis to the curriculum

A growing number of colleges are adding cannabis to the curriculum to prepare graduates for careers cultivating, researching, analyzing and marketing the herb.

6 years ago

Cheyney University of Pennsylvania is a public, co-educational historically black university that is a member of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. (Emily Cohen for NewsWorks, file)
Education

Losing students and funds, Cheyney University continues striving for accreditation

The nation’s oldest historically black university is working to fulfill the conditions for certification, but it has options other than closing should it lose accreditation.

6 years ago

A taxidermied dog
The Why
Arts & Entertainment

Why Drexel wants to take over the Philadelphia History Museum

Drexel University has proposed taking over the 130,000-piece collection of the Philadelphia History Museum. Will the public get to see it? And why does Drexel want it?

Air Date: March 4, 2019

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Professor David W. Brown finds inspiration from his Temple University students who are working to promote diversity in the field of public relations. (WHYY file photo)
Community

Making diversity happen from the classroom to the corner suite

I had believed the hype that students of this millennial generation were “over” the diversity thing … that they believed we were living in a post-racial society.

6 years ago

More than 300 people turned out to hear about a proposal to save the collection of the Philadelphia History Museum. (Peter Crimmins/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Philly History Museum’s future may lie with Drexel

More than 300 people turned out Wednesday night to hear a plan for preserving the contents of the Philadelphia History Museum. The building, however, may be lost.

6 years ago

Listen 2:13
The mummy of an anonymous female takes center stage in the Penn Museum's new exhibit,
Arts & Entertainment

Penn Museum preserves a little bit of Egypt for display during renovation

With its Egyptian galleries closed until 2022, the archaeological museum in West Philadelphia has set up a smaller exhibition of artifacts.

7 years ago

Listen 1:59
Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein speaks at his alma mater, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Politics & Policy

Outgoing Deputy AG Rosenstein discusses DOJ tenure with Wharton students

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who’s endured jabs by President Trump, says his job means ignoring politics and carrying out the administration’s priorities.

7 years ago

Senior Christian Sanchez caries the flag as the Cheyney University Wolves enter the O'Shields-Stevenson Stadium for the
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Pa. public universities ‘treading water’ with declining enrollment, higher than average tuition

Enrollment across the 14 state-owned schools has decreased by 18 percent since 2010, dropping to less than 100,000 students in fall 2018.

7 years ago

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