Higher Education

The U.S. Small Business Administration is not doing what it is supposed to do to help historically Black colleges and universities, Congressman Dwight Evans said this week.

University's former leader, Graham Spanier, had been scheduled to begin serving two months in jail Wednesday in connection with the Jerry Sandusky scandal.

Swarthmore’s only fraternities, Phi Psi and Delta Upsilon, say they hope their decision to disband will promote ‘healing.’

A federal judge threw out former Penn State President Graham Spanier's misdemeanor child-endangerment conviction on Tuesday.

Rabbi Chaim Goldstein’s uncle lost a finger in the California synagogue attack. His courage has inspired Goldstein to persevere rather than mourn.

Students at Swarthmore College occupied a fraternity house after alleged documents describing some members' derogatory comments and sexual assault jokes were leaked.

Enrollment has been falling at many Pennsylvania colleges and universities for nearly decade, since peak enrollment numbers in 2010.

A series of unknown images by the 1970s radical feminist artist are on view at the Tyler School of Art’s Temple Contemporary gallery.

One of the new laws will make it easier for borrowers struggling to pay off loans. The other allows borrowers who have defaulted on those loans to start an installment plan.

Former Penn State President Graham Spanier is asking a federal magistrate judge to overturn his conviction.

It’s a policy that’s been in place at least three years — but rarely enforced.

Throughout this week, Penn Book Center supporters are marching daily from the University City campus to the bookstore — just one block away.

A look at Philly’s college-area special service districts.

The Massachusetts senator says the proposal unveiled Monday would eliminate almost all student loan debt for 42 million Americans.

After decades of efforts to increase the ranks of African-American doctors, Blacks are still underrepresented in the nation’s medical schools.