Higher Education

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Graham Spanier, 70, had argued the trial judge and a lower appeals court wrongly relied on a statute of limitations law that prosecutors never cited.

Legislation to strengthen the partnership between historically black college and universities is on a fast track to become law.