Emma Folts

Federal grants to attend college are now available to people in prison, but with few Pa. colleges stepping up, the number of students is small.

A pending NCAA settlement would allow colleges to spend up to $20 million a year on athlete compensation. This victory for college athletes, however, raises thorny questions around gender equity and the distribution of funds between athletes and programs.

Pitt Apartheid Divest organizers, who led a 32-hour occupation of part of the University of Pittsburgh’s Cathedral of Learning lawn, said the mayor’s warning of the prospect of forcible removal by state troopers was key to their decision to disband.

As tenured faculty positions dwindle, universities turn to cost-saving adjunct instructors. For some, these shaky contracts force frugal living and restrictive classroom messaging.

Grad students at Pittsburgh’s major research universities are fronting a growing share of the academic workload. In return, they’re asking for a bigger paycheck.

Students at the University of Pittsburgh are staging a multi-day demonstration in support of Palestinians, a protest mirroring campus movements erupting nationwide that have led to hundreds of student and protester arrests.  At least 50 students, faculty and community members had gathered on a portion of the lawn outside the Cathedral of Learning by early […]

Carnegie Mellon receives more military funding than most highly selective universities, covering research ranging from drones to AI. Some students are balking.

The city’s wealthiest universities have invested their multibillion-dollar endowments in ways that are decreasingly transparent to students, faculty and the public.