Higher Education

In 2011, its economic impact on the state was just over $1 billion. By 2017, that figure grew to more than $6 billion.

Temple art gallery has commissioned a UK artist to compose and assemble an orchestra of local whistlers in Philadelphia.

Penn students react to the school’s former basketball coach taking $300,000 to save a spot on the team for an unqualified player.

Singer, 58, is at the center of one of biggest college admissions scandals on record, accused of conspiring with wealthy parents to pay bribes to get into prestigious schools.

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

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?

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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?

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.