Competitive sports can teach you many life skills. For the Millersville University baseball team, never had the lessons of teamwork and staying cool under pressure applied more. According to a story from Lancaster Online, seven members of that squad helped save the life of a 1-year-old boy.

Before he walked into an honors communications course at West Chester University, Grant Hubbard's ethnic identity was the stuff of skin color and oral history. He was the white guy with European roots whose family came to the United States shortly after the Mayflower arrived. Then science took over.

Edinboro University Student Government Association and the Community Outreach Center hosted a day of service on April 27 through a project called The Big Event. More than 175 Edinboro students participated in The Big Event, a nationwide, one-day service project to encourage student participation in community service.

When Mansfield University junior Tom Grisanti decided to embark upon a 70-day, 4,000-mile bike ride across America, his reason was personal. He is doing it, in part, to honor his older brother

East Stroudsburg University's union faculty members were notified this week of potential layoffs in the 2013-14 academic year. ESU's faculty union learned of the possibility during a "meet and discuss" meeting Tuesday, according to a memo sent to the faculty by ESU's Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties President Nancy VanArsdale.

Gov. Tom Corbett urged Millersville University's 2013 graduating class to "reach for the stars," Saturday. "College teaches us how to learn," Corbett told the 1,109 graduates on Chryst Field at Biemesderfer Stadium. "Today you are enrolling in the university of life. It is the best, sometimes most demanding, teacher."

No one booed. But the graduates of Millersville University didn't exactly cheer Gov. Tom Corbett either Saturday.

Three hundred ninety four students received degrees at Mansfield University's 148th Commencement on Saturday, May 18, at Decker Gymnasium.

Kutztown University held spring commencement for more than 1,000 undergraduate and graduate students Saturday at two ceremonies in O'Pake Field House.

“Check your gun at the door” isn’t just a cliché at Kutztown University, it’s now the rule — at least until Kutztown and Pennsylvania’s 13 other state-owned universities can figure out how to reconcile their campus gun bans with the expanded “castle doctrine” law enacted by the state Legislature in 2011.

Sunday’s editorial on Kutztown University’s new gun policy was just the editor’s way of saying we still don’t like Corbett and we still don’t like guns. No real facts were given, just a quick sentence about thousands of students carrying handguns on campus.

The negative media coverage of Kutztown University must end. The media day in and day out are slandering the school's name and ignoring the world-changing accomplishments coming out of the institution.

Seven of Pennsylvania's 14 state-owned universities -- under pressure from gun-rights advocates who believe that carrying firearms on a campus full of young people is a good idea -- quietly have started to allow guns to be carried in open spaces on their campuses.

A bill to remove a financial hurdle for young undocumented immigrants who want to attend a public college or university in Pennsylvania was in the spotlight last week at a Senate hearing on making higher education more accessible and affordable.

Temple University will welcome its strongest freshman class in terms of academics in its history, with a 16-point jump in average SAT scores and a higher average class rank, President Neil Theobald will announce at Tuesday’s board of trustees meeting.

The Lincoln University — that’s right THE LINCOLN UNIVERSITY - has added “the” to its official name to distinguish it from the other Lincoln universities and schools throughout the United States.

Gov. Tom Corbett is putting a new face on his often-unpopular education policies -- nominating a new secretary of education -- while keeping the current secretary in a newly created position as a special adviser on higher education.

The Boston Marathon bombings last month hit the home of some of the world’s greatest universities. As the terror and violence played out in America’s education and research hub, each twist and turn seemed to touch on the very campuses that draw the best and brightest from across the globe.

Private student loan borrowers are so hard up for money within eight years of leaving college that about half have had to let go of everyday services like cable TV and Internet access, and more than a third have borrowed from friends or family just to keep up with their college debt payments and meet basic living expenses.

Students on some of Pennsylvania's college campuses might be carrying more than books. At least five Pennsylvania state-owned universities are now allowing guns on campus after the state's lawyers concluded that an outright ban on weapons was likely unconstitutional.

Business students at Indiana University of Pennsylvania are getting a taste of consumer neuroscience research, thanks to a state-of-the-art lab in the marketing department. Created in 2011 and funded entirely by IUP, the Consumer Neuroscience Lab is one of only a handful of such research labs in the nation housed in a marketing academic department.

The momentum and partnerships for the Trails at Jakes Rocks continues to grow. Pennsylvania Kinzua Pathways (PKP) and the Warren County Chamber of Business and Industry (WCCBI) announced this week that both, Clarion University and Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP), have joined University of Pittsburgh at Bradford in providing students the opportunity to gain field work experience.

With his inauguration set for Friday, Indiana University of Pennsylvania President Michael Driscoll took time to address some of his students’ queries during a question-and-answer session during Monday’s Six O’clock Series in IUP’s Hadley Union Building.

Even though Graham Spanier lost his job in 2011 as Penn State’s president, he still managed to earn more than his public university presidential peers in that academic year.

Two distinguished alumni will address graduating students when California University of Pennsylvania holds commencement ceremonies May 17 and 18 in the Convocation Center. In separate ceremonies, Interim President Geraldine M. Jones will award nearly 300 master’s degrees and 1,000 bachelor’s and associate’s degrees.

Graham Spanier, who resigned Penn State University's presidency amid a scandal and now faces criminal charges, achieved an ironic distinction as he relinquished the job he held for 16 years, a new survey says.

Penn State University says it has a problem with how The Chronicle of Higher Education does its presidential pay survey. The Chronicle, in turn, says it had a problem getting routine information from the state's flagship public university.

 

Kutztown University is freezing student fees and room-and-board charges in 2013-14 to keep its costs stable for students and their families. Student fees support campus activities, the student union, the health center and other amenities and services.

Students at California University of Pennsylvania are not dining on the boring food their parents grew accustomed to on college campuses. They can now use their meal plans to purchase spiced-up sandwiches and tacos from a food truck the university rolled out in March, taking a cue from a trend that began to emerge in warmer climates.

Swarthmore College is in rare company nationally as a school that collects nearly as much or more revenue from investments as it does from students. Its $1.5 billion endowment - about $1 million per student - allows the highly ranked college to spend more on each student, but it does not fully shield Swarthmore from the economic forces threatening higher education.