Higher Education

A new study showed that parenting is associated with stronger brain connectivity in movement and sensation, which typically declines as people age.

“Students must be assessed according to merit and accomplishment, not prejudged by the color of their skin,” Education Secretary Linda McMahon said in a statement.

Jameson has been serving as Penn's interim president after the university's former president, Liz Magill, resigned in December 2023.

The union members’ action comes after more than a year of unsuccessful contract talks.

Education Secretary Linda McMahon said the layoffs were intended to eliminate “bureaucratic bloat.” But she added this was the first step to a full agency shut down.

College administrators say any reduction in aid is detrimental to the services they offer. Officials with the governor’s office say they are centering students in funding.

In the weeks since he took office, the Trump administration already has cut the department's staff in half and overhauled much of the department’s work.

After Tuesday’s layoffs, the Education Department’s staff will sit at roughly half of its previous 4,100, the agency said.

Students learn animation, 3D printing and making music at Drexel lab dedicated to integrating sciences and the arts.

The governor’s plan tackles the growing nursing shortage by paying students part of their tuition back if they stay in Pennsylvania to work.

N.J. senior citizens are heading back to college. Their favorite courses? History, art and political science classes.

The top administrator painted a dire portrait of Penn Medicine’s future amid a “chaotic pace of government regulations and executive orders.”

A Pennsylvania state senator and state representative left the meeting after they say a university administrator referred to diversity as a “lightning rod.”

Penn State’s president Neeli Bendapudi says declining enrollments, demographic shifts and financial pressures will require the school to close some of its 19 branch campuses.

We talked to more staff about how things ended and how they are (still) transitioning — 8 months later.