Higher Education

Magisterial District Judge Carmine Prestia has dismissed all involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment charges in the February 2017 death of Timothy Piazza.

King's College and Misericordia University, both in the Scranton area, have buildings named after J. Carroll McCormick.

Officials at the University of Scranton and King’s College will rename buildings once honoring now-disgraced bishops, and revoke honorary degrees.

Signs emerge that some are cutting corners to produce more graduates more quickly.

Despite tight budgets and high risks, colleges hope niche degrees will spur demand.

For years, activists have railed against the question as discouraging and discriminatory to those with a criminal past.

In an effort to find a more engaging way to present child development to psychology students, I decided to use a book about an orphan boy who later discovers he is a wizard.

The U.S. Education Department is going back to the drawing board on some basic rules of higher education, including one concept that has been in place for 125 years.

Princeton invited artist and scholars from Puerto Rico to work on their projects at the university campus during the summer.

After facing several years of falling enrollment and financial instability, Cheyney University is looking to remake itself by playing to its strengths.

The New Jersey Supreme Court says a controversial theory about child sex abuse can no longer be used as evidence. An iconic Philadelphia ...

Not all of the state's 19 community colleges will be included in the pilot program because not enough was budgeted this year to cover the costs

The first member of a PSU frat to plead guilty in connection with the death of a pledge was sentenced to three months' house arrest.

Up to half of college students in recent published studies say they either are not getting enough to eat or are worried about it.

The scorecard will include grade point averages, sexual assaults, alcohol and hazing violations, and community service hours.