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Emma Folts covers higher education. Email her at emma@publicsource.org
Another Pittsburgh promise?
Payments from "eds and meds" would bring millions to Pittsburgh Public Schools, allowing district to slash deficit and consider "wonderful things."
Who decides the future of Pittsburgh’s Oakland neighborhood?
Should the Oakland of tomorrow be a place where children play in sunny yards or where towers cater to students and “eds and meds” workers? Seven perspectives illustrate the stresses facing the booming center of Pittsburgh’s tax-exempt growth.
Update: Carnegie Mellon no longer considering draft policy to use facial recognition technology
The draft policy came two years after Pittsburgh City Council took steps to regulate the use of facial recognition technology by city entities.
Carnegie Mellon grad student growth driving plans for even denser campus
Carnegie Mellon University presented its 10-year development plan to the City Planning Commission, in a process that will continue into September.
The complicated reality of a healthcare career in Pittsburgh
Health and medicine have become pillars of the Pittsburgh economy, but training programs are struggling to attract students in fields with poor job satisfaction.
How student leaders of Pittsburgh campus groups are responding after Roe reversal
The reversal of Roe represents not only an issue of healthcare equity but also educational equity, one student said.
Professors express concern for marginalized communities, protected rights in wake of Roe reversal
Observers of politics and history say the Dodd ruling could change the way a generation sees its nation and itself.
Should Pittsburgh’s tax-exempt universities make payments to the city? Here’s what others do.
Other colleges directly contribute thousands – even millions – to their cities each year. But Pittsburgh’s major universities don’t have similar agreements.
City and county controllers call for greater payments from big eds and meds
The county's five largest nonprofits, including three universities, pay 11% of what they would owe in property taxes if they didn't receive exemptions and abatements.
College programs for students with disabilities are growing in Western PA, but some have faced challenges
The number of inclusive post-secondary programs has continued to grow in Pennsylvania. But they are complicated to offer, and some have faced instability.