Universities

Rowan University Virtua Health medical college

Rowan University, Virtua Health team up to establish new medical college

Penn Law professor Amy Wax skewered again for claiming U.S. is 'better off with fewer Asians'

Amy Wax Penn law

Rowan University to create New Jersey's first veterinary school

Rowan University veterinary school

Omicron leads Philly colleges to re-tool plans for spring semester

Omicron Variant

Former Temple business school dean found guilty of falsely reporting data to U.S. News & World Report

Moshe Porat Fox School of Business

Six Philadelphia-area colleges make U.S. News' best global universities list

Penn Best Global Universities

Enrollment at Pennsylvania state colleges plunged amid the COVID-19 pandemic

PA State College Enrollment

Philly pushes back COVID-19 vaccination deadline for colleges, health care systems

Philly COVID-19 vaccine mandate

Son of Carnegie Mellon University president dies in Monongahela River drowning

Thomas Jahanian CMU

Penn, Swarthmore rank highly again on U.S. News & World Report's Best Colleges lists

U.S. News & World Report best colleges list

Former child actor Matthew Mindler found dead near Millersville University

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Family, police searching for missing Millersville University student

Millersville Student Missing

Philly to implement COVID-19 vaccine mandate for colleges, health care systems

Philly colleges COVID-19 vaccine mandate

Community College of Philadelphia mandates COVID-19 vaccine for faculty, staff

CCP Philadelphia Vaccine

Penn unveils plans for new student performing arts center

Penn Arts Plans

St. Joe's University to absorb USciences in forthcoming merger

St. Joe's USciences merger

Temple appoints first Black president in university history

Stock_Carroll - Temple University Baptist Temple

Villanova University requiring all students, employees to be fully vaccinated by August

Villanova University COVID-19 vaccine

Penn mandates all faculty, staff must be fully vaccinated by August

Penn employees COVID-19 vaccine

Rowan University offering students incentives to get COVID-19 vaccine ahead of fall semester

Rowan University COVID-19 vaccines

Penn, Drexel to require students receive COVID-19 vaccine for fall semester

Penn Drexel COVID-19 vaccines

Pennsylvania's state-owned universities freeze in-state tuition for third straight year

Cabrini University to cut some academic programs, staff in effort to address financial woes

Cabrini University programs cut

Rutgers University to divest from fossil fuels, pledges to invest in sustainability

Rutgers University Fossil Fuels

Temple University to restore in-person instruction this fall amid a 'vibrant campus experience'

Temple University Fall 2021

Higher Education

St. Joe's, USciences to explore merger of two Philly universities

St. Joe's USciences

Penn professor retires amid fallout from Nazi salute given during Zoom session

Penn Schuyler Retires

Penn professor under fire for giving Nazi salute during virtual conference

Penn Schuyler Nazi

Temple will pay $700,000 in federal settlement over fudged business school rankings

Temple Fox School settlement

New Jersey colleges, universities urged to provide COVID-19 testing before students leave for Thanksgiving

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Philly imposes sweeping new COVID-19 restrictions through rest of 2020

Philly COVID NOV16

Rowan University offering free COVID-19 tests to all students before Thanksgiving

Rowan University COVID-19 testing

Temple eliminates spring break as part of precautions to resume in-person classes next semester

temple university spring 2021 semester

Colleges and the Thanksgiving COVID-19 risk: Fauci’s right – holiday plans may have to change

Thanksgiving College COVID-19

Temple University

Temple to allow limited number of fans at football games starting in November

New Princeton dorm honoring Black CEO to replace building once named after Woodrow Wilson

Princeton University Mellody Hobson

COVID-19 cases climbing again in Philly and Pennsylvania in October

COVIDS-19 Philly October

Two Temple students hospitalized after falling from roof of building

Temple Fox School settlement

La Salle University cutting 7 athletics teams amid financial challenges

la salle athletics

Temple's faculty union calls for classes to remain virtual in spring semester

temple 2021 spring semester

For colleges, online mental health services are a 'silver lining' of COVID-19 crisis

COVID-19 Mental Health Services

Penn, Swarthmore College again represent region on U.S. News & World Report's best colleges list

Penn Swarthmore rankings

Gettysburg College sends most students home after mandatory quarantine

gettysburg college covid-19 students

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