Penn State students remain concerned that the university may close some branch campuses, including those in western Pennsylvania.

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Penn State’s 20 commonwealth campuses will receive an aggregate allocation of $314.9 million for the fiscal year 2026-27, ...

Penn State leadership have announced the university’s budget allocations for fiscal year 2026-2027. University Park will see ...

Gabrielle Green is in it for the long haul at Penn State New Kensington. The 18-year-old from Altavista, Va., is a second-semester freshman at the Upper Burrell campus. She is studying biobehavioral ...

The lobby of the brick-red Biomedical Building on the rural Penn State Fayette campus is quiet and sparsely populated when class is in session, but small items hint at its ...

The National Institutes of Health announced a change to how much it will reimburse research institutions for overhead costs.

Abraham Lincoln is considered perhaps the most effective chief executive in the history of the United States. But one area where he doesn’t get enough credit is lasting change he affected to ...

In the days after the Orange Bowl, Penn State’s players gathered on campus for a team meeting. At that point in January, they ...

Imagine what people in communities across Pennsylvania are thinking as Penn State fuels speculation that some of its branch campuses might be targeted for possible closing — in large part by remaining ...

Penn State’s budget allocations for the fiscal year 2026-27 shows funding for commonwealth campuses will be cut by about 7%, or about $25 million, the university announced earlier this week.

A report by Spotlight PA painted a murky portrait of how Penn State leadership plans to deal with reducing budget deficits, but closing commonwealth campuses that are helping the university ...