Lebanon Valley College announced Tuesday that Colleen Marshall will chair the college’s new nursing program, which welcomes its first class this fall. 

Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences has been a leader in the simulation-based education space, having participated as one of 10 facilities across the country chosen by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing for a landmark simulation study in 2011. 

Lebanon Valley College will break ground Friday on its new Nursing & Interdisciplinary Health Education Facility.

Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) plans to freeze tuition hikes for its associated schools for the fourth consecutive year. 

York College’s Knowledge Park, a component of the College’s Graham Center for Collaborative Innovation, recently received a $125,000 grant from the George I. Alden Trust of Worcester, Mass. 

The new cannabinoid chemistry program at York College of Pennsylvania is partnering with Steve Groff, founder, chair and chief medical officer of Red Lion-based Groff North America, a cannabis cultivation, extraction and formulation company.

Penn State’s annual IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon, commonly referred to as THON, broke its fundraising record this year by raising a total of $13.7 million in time for the student-run charity’s 50th anniversary. 

Retired federal judge John Jones III was named the 30th president of Dickinson College, in a unanimous vote by the institution’s board of trustees. 

UPMC is set to bring its Pittsburgh-based UPMC Shadyside School of Nursing to Harrisburg through a partnership with Harrisburg University. 

With an eye toward expansion, Lancaster’s Pennsylvania College of Art & Design has purchased a neighboring building that housed a popular nightclub for more than three decades. 

Central Penn College will be using newly awarded grant money to help build an operating room lab for its new surgical technician diploma and degree programs. 

Pennsylvania’s largest public cyber charter school, Harrisburg-based Commonwealth Charter Academy (CCA), launched a new partnership with Harrisburg Area Community College (HACC) to offer an EMT program to CCA students. 

Messiah University is nearing completion of a $75 million campaign that helped drive the former college to university status last year. 

New York (CNN Business)Walmart will pay for full college tuition and book costs at some schools for its US workers, the latest effort by the largest private employer in the country to sweeten its benefits as it seeks to attract and retain talent in a tight job market.

In an effort to tackle a nationwide nurse educator shortage, PA College of Health Sciences announced a new Post-Master’s Certificate in Nursing Education starting this fall.