The new strategy may have arrived in the nick of time: Over the past decade, Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) enrollment has dropped 30% and community college enrollment has decreased by 37%, according to officials.
More than a century later, amid a nationwide shortage in primary care doctors, Duquesne is getting its medical school. Duquesne’s College of Medicine has officially opened, with a focus on training primary care physicians who will practice in high-need areas in the region. Pennsylvania has a predicted shortage of 1,000 primary care physicians by 2030, according […]
A federal bankruptcy court in West Virginia has set a hearing for next month on the potential sale of a defunct private university’s campus. A court-appointed trustee filed a motion Wednesday to sell the former Alderson Broaddus University’s land, furnishings, equipment and supplies in Philippi to DACK Investments LLC for $4.9 million. If any competing […]
A new lawsuit accuses Carnegie Mellon University of discrimination and antisemitism. A Jewish student claims she was subjected to pervasive anti-Jewish discrimination during her time at the CMU School of Architecture and that her complaints were met with retaliation. In one specific allegation, the student says she was denied an excused absence to attend a […]
Between 2016 and 2021, college enrollment in non-English languages dropped 16.6% nationally — the steepest decline since the Modern Language Association began recording these data in 1958. There were over 1.18 million foreign language enrollments at 2,455 institutions in fall 2021, according to a report released by MLA on Nov. 15. That’s more than 236,000 fewer enrollments […]
At Carlow University on Thursday afternoon, members of the Pittsburgh Promise, with community and higher education groups and representatives from the local, state, and federal governments, came together to address the issue of food insecurity on college campuses. According to research presented at the event, some 90,000 college students in Pennsylvania are battling food insecurity. […]
Four universities in the state of Pennsylvania are waiting on hundreds of millions of dollars in funding for this fiscal year. Three months into the school year, Lincoln University is on a funding freeze, but students have a plan to hold lawmakers accountable. The hold-up in Harrisburg is preventing $19 million from coming down the […]
An effort supporters say will boost transparency in several leading Pennsylvania universities passed the House of Representatives on Monday, while the universities’ annual state subsidies remain snarled in the Legislature in a partisan funding dispute. The measure seeks to expand what the state’s four state-related universities — the University of Pittsburgh, Temple, Lincoln and Penn […]
Four of Pennsylvania’s universities are plugging budget gaps while they await hundreds of millions of dollars in aid that has been snarled in a partisan dispute among lawmakers in a state that has one of the nation’s most abysmal records for funding higher education. Education advocates argue that even a proposed increase in aid won’t make a […]
Institutions everywhere are struggling with excessive budget deficits, and with little help in state funding, the decision for more drastic cuts peers on the horizon.
