After Carnegie Mellon paused customary student control over The Fence, students wheeled in a new one to highlight the importance of free expression.
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Campus hunger may rise amid the ‘beautiful’ bill’s changes to SNAP food aid
Trump-backed legislation aims to restrict nutritional aid and push costs on states, countering efforts to connect food-insecure students to benefits.
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Trump touts $92 billion in energy and AI investments in Pa., amid Oakland protests
Some at Carnegie Mellon University saw the president’s visit as an honor, others as “insulting.”
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Pay for college athletes is about to get beefier for some, leaner for others
Colleges are about to pay athletes, and some will benefit, while others may be cut out. Local players wonder what it means for their sports.
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Pitt will have to pay athletes $20 million a year, but isn’t saying how
The NCAA is poised to agree to pay student athletes, potentially pushing Pitt’s athletics department deep into the red and raising the question: Where will the money come from?
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Three pedestrian deaths on one Oakland street spurred Pitt and Pittsburgh to improvements — but work is incomplete
Among University of Pittsburgh students and UPMC employees, there’s a common refrain: Terrace Street in West Oakland feels cursed.
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Professors, students urge Pitt and others to ‘fight back’ against attacks on higher ed
Hundreds gathered at the Schenley Plaza in the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Oakland to protest what they called an “all-out assault” on higher education, referring to federal actions that they believe undermine the mission of universities.
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New Black, Latino enrollments dipped at CMU and Pitt, rose at some schools after ban on race-conscious admissions
The class that entered college in 2024 was the first since the Supreme Court ordered higher ed to be completely race-neutral. Here’s how enrollment at five local institutions looked.
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No more silence in face of federal funding turmoil, Pittsburgh scientists say
Researchers have begun to press their case. Pitt and CMU, though, cite cuts in decision to pull science writers’ conference funding.
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From psychosis to sleep to drug resistance, these Pittsburgh research efforts are threatened by Trump spending cuts, orders
A Trump administration decision to slash indirect cost funding in science and health grants, plus federal staff cuts, have Pitt researchers wondering how, and whether, they can continue.