Higher Education
Gov. Shapiro seeks to further increase education spending on underfunded schools
Last year, the state passed a budget with record education spending. Shapiro is asking for more money for education, including more than $500 million more for schools in need.
11 months ago
Listen 1:05Temple University student arrested, suspended for impersonating ICE agent
Temple student Aidan Steigelmann is charged with impersonating a public servant and has been placed on interim suspension by the university.
11 months ago
Listen 0:46Colleges around the U.S. cautiously navigate Trump’s DEI crackdown
“It feels like a punch in the gut,” said Rutgers professor Marybeth Gasman after a session catering to students from historically Black colleges had to be abruptly canceled.
11 months ago
Hussian College owners are seeking $162 million in damages, claiming executives enriched themselves with unauthorized bonuses while the school plunged toward closure in 2023.
12 months ago
Listen 1:03Attorneys representing 200,000 students alleged that 17 schools, including Penn, favored wealthy students in financial aid and admissions decisions over a 20-year period.
12 months ago
Listen 1:30Rutgers places women’s gymnastics coach on leave after report detailing volatile team environment
The announcement came soon after the findings of an external investigation — prompted by multiple complaints filed by Rutgers gymnasts — were made public.
12 months ago
Some UArts buildings sold out of bankruptcy. Here’s what’s left on the auction block in Philly
The old University of the Arts campus is up for sale, but the judge might not approve all for-profit developers bidding for a slice of it.
12 months ago
Listen 1:46Mütter Museum and College of Physicians have a new CEO, Larry Kaiser
Dr. Larry Kaiser, former head of Temple Health Services, will lead the historic medical society and museum through a turbulent transition.
12 months ago
Listen 1:09Former UArts students, faculty and alumni exhibit on the walls of Philly City Hall
Dozens of artists impacted by the closure of the University of the Arts submitted work to what might be their last collective exhibition.
1 year ago
The University of Pennsylvania said the new filings in a 2022 class-action lawsuit were meant to embarrass the schools. Ten have agreed to settlements.
1 year ago
Temple University’s new exhibitions director wants to reimagine public art spaces
“I really ask a lot of questions around place, taste and urban change and whose tastes and cultural identities get to shape public space,” Matthew Jordan-Miller Kenyatta said.
1 year ago
Montco Community College opens new, state-of-the-art hospitality institute
The 20,000-square-foot learning center features pasta and chocolate laboratories and a wood-burning pizza oven.
1 year ago
Charles L. Blockson Collection at Temple turns 40
The collection at Temple University honors the legacy of one of America’s foremost historians and collectors of artifacts on the global Black experience.
1 year ago
Dartmouth sorority, two fraternity members charged in death of student from Delaware
Won Jang, 20, of Middletown, Delaware, had attended an off-campus party in July hosted by Alpha Phi sorority.
1 year ago
Rutgers medical students moonlight as Bergen Barbers, doling out haircuts and shaves to patients
The group was inspired by a patient who became depressed and requested a haircut.
1 year ago
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