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The article reports on conflict between state and university entrance requirements for home-schooled students in Pennsylvania. The author explains that State Representative Joseph A. Petrarca contacted the University of the Arts, which is located in his western Pennsylvania district, on behalf of a family who believed that the school's standards of high-school equivalence were unfair. In July 2007, after repeated but unsuccessful attempts to talk with university administrators, Petrarca persuaded the state's House of Representatives to deny the university's state appropriation, which prompted interim university president William Mea to meet with him. Mea defends the university's efforts to recruit home-schooled students and claims that he was unaware of Petrarca's attempts to contact him.

The article discusses how Pennsylvania's Governor Edward G. Rendell has found a way for his state to gain economic benefits from the foreign students who pass through it colleges. The article reports that Pennsylvania is setting up a Global Business Alumni Program that will reach out to alumni of its colleges who are living in other nations and encourage them to forge business ties with the state. The program will provide universities with funds to work with the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development to try to create business relationships with alumni in other countries. Colleges that already have overseas representatives will get money from the state to hold more events and step up their alumni-networking and student-recruitment efforts abroad.

Reports on the United States appeals court upholding of a Pennsylvania law that prohibits alcohol advertisements in campus publications. Argument of the `The Pitt News' that the statute violates the student newspaper's constitutional rights to free speech and cuts revenue by restricting amount of news published; Possibility that Vic Walczak, defender in the paper's case, may seek a review by the US Supreme Court.