In response to the growing opioid epidemic in Pennsylvania and in the nation, Clarion University College of Health and Human Services announced today that it has developed an opioid treatment specialist certificate, which will be offered online, beginning this fall. More...

For this school year, Apple’s App Development with Swift curriculum will be offered in more than 30 community colleges across the country. This offering will help students learn to build apps, preparing them for careers in software development and information technology. More...

Even after decades of affirmative action, black and Hispanic students are more underrepresented at the nation’s top colleges and universities than they were 35 years ago, according to a New York Times analysis. More...

Who would pay former gang members to help them go to college? A program in Dorchester, a neighborhood in Boston, is doing just that — and for some of its students, it seems to be working. More...

A 2014 report published by the World Intellectual Property Organization revealed that approximately 2.1 million patents were being filed each year, a number that has continued to grow exponentially in the last three years. More...

The U.S. Department of Education is awarding a second round of funding for programs that help low-income students aspire to attend college. The awards announced this week go to programs whose applications were initially rejected because of formatting errors such as not being double-spaced or using the wrong font. More...

DACA provides legal protection from deportation to undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. without documentation as children (often referred to as “Dreamers”). Applicants must meet specific requirements to be eligible for the program. More...

At the present moment, it is only liberal arts majors who have to wonder whether all of the articles and books promoting the marketability of their chosen discipline should make them more or less uneasy about the future. More...

One of the country’s largest servicers of federal student loans has badly mismanaged debt forgiveness programs for public service workers, significantly raising repayment costs for hundreds of thousands of borrowers, according to a lawsuit filed on Wednesday by the attorney general of Massachusetts. More...

President Donald Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos didn’t whole-heartedly renounce white supremacy last weekend, but teachers must. James Alex Fields Jr., the driver who allegedly plowed into a crowd of counter-protesters on Saturday, Aug. 12, killing one and injuring at least a dozen more at the “Unite the Right” march, had spouted Nazi ideology in high school, according to Derek Weimer, Fields’ former history teacher. More...