Higher Education News

Michael St. Pierre will assume the position as the diocese's fifth superintendent effective Aug. 1, the diocese said in a news release

Lehigh Carbon Community College and Northampton Community College received money from the Pennsylvania Department of Education to help adults learn English.

Moravian University and Lehigh Carbon Community College are working to remove barriers for Black and Latino high school students.

Paraprofessionals can get certified for free while continuing to work in their schools.

St. Luke's University Health Network offers real-life experience to adolescents. The latest group is concluding their time as high school students in the field.

Communal Supper Club dinners at Northampton Community College partner with different local vendors to highlight their ingredients and show off all the Lehigh Valley has to offer.

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Lehigh Carbon Community College is now offering an accelerated program to get nursing students to a higher degree faster. The program is offered through a partnership with an online institution.

Lafayette on May 26 submitted plans to replant College Hill after it was deforested for a $1.2 million walkway project. Here's the plan.

The college resubmitted plans May 26, two weeks after Easton officials sent a letter notifying officials that the walkway project had deforested a portion of a slope without city approval.

Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education is drawing up plans to bring six of the universities in its orbit under two umbrellas.

The pandemic and its impact on the economy has changed some families financial situations and affected their ability to pay college tuition. According to a survey nearly 40 percent of parents who didn’t originally plan on applying for federal aid now will. And as WLVR’s Chloe Nouvelle reports, time is of the essence.

For the first time, Penn State University Lehigh Valley students can pursue a degree in cybersecurity.

The nation’s highest honor for graduating high school seniors is being named a U.S. Presidential Scholar. Only three students in Pennsylvania earned that honor this year - and two happen to not only live in the Lehigh Valley, they also go to the same school.

Colleges in Lehigh Valley and across the state are responding to the threat of coronavirus by canceling in-person classes and moving coursework online following spring break.