Higher Education

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.

The 60,000-volume library in the University of the Arts’ Anderson Hall will be moved intact to Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood.

A new study highlights growing concerns as students face rising costs, limited on-campus options and increasing financial strain.

One researcher described it as a “particularly insidious way” to stymie the work of U.S. scientists.

The investigation at Penn focuses on Lia Thomas, who swam on the school’s women’s team and was the first openly transgender athlete to win a Division I title in 2022.

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.

Temple student Aidan Steigelmann is charged with impersonating a public servant and has been placed on interim suspension by the university.

“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.