Penn State

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.

WPSU-TV and radio will become part of Philadelphia-based WHYY, under a plan Penn State trustees unanimously approved Monday, a month after the board's finance committee rejected a similar proposal but one that would have cost the university $17 million over five years. The approved plan does not include that subsidy from Penn State.

Penn State fired head football coach James Franklin on Sunday, less than 24 hours after a 22-21 home loss to Northwestern.

The sale of WPSU will be the topic of a special Penn State board of trustees' finance committee meeting at 2 p.m. Monday. The public has until 8 a.m. Monday to submit comments.

The State Correctional Institution at Rockview will close in a few months, and a Penn State spokesperson said they're interested in how the property will be used in the future, given its proximity to the University Park campus.

Penn State plans to shut down WPSU and its operations by June 30, 2026, but many in the community are urging the university to reconsider the closure while they look for a ‘Plan B’ for keeping public television and radio in central Pennsylvania.

Much of Pennsylvania is in a dry spell, with rainfall at record lows in some places, according to meteorologists from Penn State’s Weather World who spoke about the lack of rain during WPSU's latest episode of Conversations Live.

All of Penn State’s voting trustees attended the session on the Pennsylvania Sunshine Act, which was led by the state’s Office of Open Records.