Penn State

Penn State’s board of trustees voted Friday to tighten the guidelines for its members’ interactions with the media.

Penn State wants to be a leader in the field of artificial intelligence, and the university’s provost laid out a vision for how that will happen during a board of trustees committee meeting Thursday.

The number of international students studying at American colleges and universities like Penn State is on a downturn. That comes as the Trump administration has issued travel bans and restrictions on certain countries and made getting a student visa more difficult for some.

Penn State’s head of research outlined what he called worst-case and best-case scenarios during a town hall Monday, as the university prepares for the possibility of large-scale cuts in federal research funding and changes to visa regulations for international students and employees proposed by the Trump administration.

Penn State President Neeli Bendapudi said Thursday the university will not endorse the “compact” President Trump has asked universities to sign.

As WHYY moves forward with acquiring WPSU, the CEO of the Philadelphia-based public media station outlined those plans, including having it operate as a stand-alone entity, dialing up fundraising and having WPSU keep its name.

Penn State graduate student workers are holding a vote this week on whether to form a union. All teaching, research and administrative support graduate assistants are eligible to vote.

The ruling upholds a Pennsylvania Office of Open Records decision that university documents shared with state agency leaders are public, even if they’re housed in an online file-sharing system.

Hoping for better pay and benefits, more job security and a stronger voice, a group of faculty at Penn State is taking steps to unionize.

Pat Kraft, the vice president for intercollegiate athletics at Penn State, would not answer questions about how the university will pay Franklin’s nearly $50 million buyout.