Three of the state-related universities would get their first state funding increase in several years under a budget proposed by Gov. Josh Shapiro. But it would be distributed based on yet-to-be-developed, performance-based funding criteria. Under the proposal, Pennsylvania State ...

 Bob Perkins, 91, of Wyncote, the jazz DJ whose sonorous, deeply relaxing and reassuring voice on the Philadelphia airwaves entertained and educated music lovers for more than half a century, died Sunday, Jan. 19, at Jefferson Abington Hospital. Mr. Perkins’ death after a brief ...

mall business optimism is at a six-year high, according to a new report from the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB). The postelection economic outlook has created this “optimism on Main Street,” said Bill Dunkelberg, NFIB’s chief economist and a dean at Temple ...

Jeffrey Doshna, Temple University’s faculty union chief, was never given the chance to meet with former Temple president Jason Wingard during Wingard’s nearly two-year tenure — despite repeated asking. Shalimar Thomas said she hadn’t met a Temple president in the eight years she’s led the ...

emple University has bid $18 million on Terra Hall, the largest building owned by the former University of the Arts, and hopes it will house the school’s Center City campus. The school in a message to the campus community Friday afternoon announced its intention to purchase UArts’ former ...

 Nutrition experts and stakeholders are “encouraged” by Kennedy’s intention to disrupt a food system that “doesn’t seem to be working,” said David Sarwer, director of the Center for Obesity Research and Education at Temple University’s College of Public Health. “There have been ...

“A pay raise for Congress should not become simply a point of contention; it should instead be seen as an opportunity to address the systemic pay inequality that has plagued so many communities and impacted so many. By linking the minimum wage to inflation and productivity growth, members ...

Temple University College of Public Health will study ways to help young adults with disabilities learn how to navigate public transportation under a $7.5 million contract from the Patient-centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), a nonprofit research funding organization. The ...