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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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When Princeton University announced it had settled litigation with area homeowners who had argued it is a profit-making institution in order to challenge its exemption from property taxes, it appeared to be paying millions of dollars to clear long-lingering uncertainty. But the agreement, announced Oct. 14, leaves key legal issues unresolved in New Jersey. Although the university did not admit its currently exempt property should be taxed, a court did not affirm its tax exemptions, either.
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A rite of fall has arrived — it’s college admissions season for this year’s high-school seniors. As I’ve traveled around the country in recent weeks to talk about my new book, There Is Life After College, high-school students and their parents have been asking me plenty of questions about the college search process, completing their admissions applications and applying for financial aid.
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Journalist Sabrina Rubin Erdely fired off an email to Rolling Stone editors in the middle of the night with a sobering subject line: “Our worst nightmare.” She wrote that she no longer trusted “Jackie,” the central figure in her article about a gang rape at the University of Virginia and that she believed the magazine should issue a retraction. As an attorney representing a university administrator who is suing Rolling Stone over the piece read the email aloud in court Thursday, Erdely broke down. “Are those your words?” attorney Libby Locke asked.
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Joseph Turow of the Annenberg School for Communication is interviewed about his marketing and advertising research and about his forthcoming book, The Aisles Have Eyes.
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PayScale introduced its first college salary report in 2008, and the College Scorecard from the federal government followed last year, ushering an elephant into the hallowed halls of college admissions: What do the schools’ graduates actually earn? Despite the hand-wringing of many in academia, who saw the immeasurable richness of a college education crassly reduced to a dollar sign, the data has wrought a sea change in the way students and families evaluate prospective colleges.
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Eight university presidents -- some of them prominent -- have joined with leaders in national security and foreign policy to issue a joint call for the next U.S. president to embrace diversity, diplomacy and globalism. "The undersigned individuals … believe the United States is stronger and safer when we recognize that we are a part of an interconnected, interdependent global community.
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Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center comments on significance of the handshake between candidates at presidential debates.
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Mitchell Orenstein of the School of Arts & Sciences writes about Russia’s failed attempt to “hack the election.”
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Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center comments on a history of penalties for explicitly attacking women in politics.
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When looking for a ranking of the top colleges in America, many parents, students and alumni have relied mainly on one source for the past three decades: U.S. News and World Report. Now, college ranking is all the rage. There are numbered lists for every taste, each with a unique data-crunching formula. While U.S. News’ rankings reward wealth and prestige — long a matter of debate, with little variation among the top schools from year to year — new ranking schemes seek to define which schools offer the best outcomes for students, the best value, the best student experience.