Penn State

Penn State professor P. Gabrielle Foreman has been named a 2022 MacArthur Fellow.

The Penn State board of trustees voted Friday to approve the university's plan to expand alcohol sales in Beaver Stadium to the general public in a move the Athletics Department says will improve the football day experience.

Penn State won’t answer important questions after student athletes were allegedly extorted into taking and sharing sexually explicit photos and videos of themselves and others.

The university says it must save $250 million to have a balanced budget by summer 2025. This freeze is on top of a 3% budget rescission that was previously announced for the 2022-23 fiscal year.

Four Pennsylvania universities say they will follow through with tuition increases despite calls from House Republicans to roll back the price hikes. The lawmakers, including Sen. Doug Mastriano, the GOP nominee for governor, argue Penn State, University of Pittsburgh, Lincoln and Temple are receiving federal funds and do not need to increase tuition.

Tuition bills for Pennsylvanians who go to Penn State or one of the other state-related universities will come with a new detail this coming year: the students are getting a discount — thanks to the General Assembly.

The move follows opponents of abortion access in the state House unsuccessfully attempting to block funding for the schools over Pitt’s research using fetal tissue.

Penn State is planning to increase employees' salaries 2.5% percent, under a plan the board of trustees will vote on Friday.

Penn State undergraduates whose families make $75,000 a year or less are slated to see their tuition stay the same in the upcoming year, while others will see their tuition increase 2% to 6%, under a plan the board of trustee’s finance committee approved Thursday morning.

A whistleblower lawsuit filed by a former attorney at the University of Louisville alleges she was demoted and punished for reporting attempted extortion by an assistant basketball coach, and that she experienced pushback from then-President Neeli Bendapudi for doing so.