Kathy Matheson

Today’s college graduates are well-positioned to lead America in the 21st century and shouldn’t listen to cynics who say the nation is in decline, Vice President Joe Biden told thousands of new degree holders at the University of Pennsylvania on Monday.

Seven universities will participate in a national preparedness initiative designed to help campuses train for, respond to and recover from emergencies, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Tuesday.

Talk about a baptism by fire: On the first day of Lauren Colegrove’s journalism internship at Catholic News Service in Rome, the pope announced his resignation.

A Haverford College student sent the community a hoax email using the school president’s name to announce a purported change in financial aid for illegal immigrants, officials said Wednesday.

Drexel University will establish a school for entrepreneurs in order to channel the passion of students who are thinking innovatively about their lives and careers, officials said Wednesday.

Enrollment officials at Bucknell University, a selective liberal arts school in central Pennsylvania, inflated students’ average SAT scores over the past several years, the school’s president said.

University of Pennsylvania student Sharree Walls didn’t realize when she signed up for a course on philanthropy that she’d actually become a philanthropist at the end of the semester.

State university faculty frustrated with the lack of progress in contract negotiations on Friday gave their union leaders the authority to call a strike.

A commission charged with improving higher education in Pennsylvania has recommended that colleges and universities be able to earn additional state funding by meeting certain performance targets.

Nearly 80 years after women at Swarthmore College voted to ban sororities because they were too exclusive, a group of female students will reinstate Greek life this spring after weathering months of polarizing debate on campus.