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Students Flood College Mental-Health Centers
On a recent Thursday afternoon at Ohio State University, about 30 students sit in a classroom listening to instructor Kipp Pietrantonio lecture. “Imagine you were just handed your physics test, what would happen?” he asks. “You sweat,” calls out one student. “Your heart starts racing,” says a young woman. “You get jittery,” answers another. It is a meeting of the twice weekly “Beating Anxiety” workshop” and Dr. Pietrantonio is a clinical psychologist who works at the university’s counseling center.
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Political Junkie: If Your Candidate Loses, Will You Give the Winner a Chance?
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center talks about what happens if the candidate someone votes for loses.
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Big Philly Employer Adds New Benefit for Bicycle Commuters
Penn is highlighted for adding a new benefit for employees who are also bicycle commuters.
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It’s Not You. It’s Your Students
Many studies point to professors being more liberal than the rest of society, but little research says there is discrimination against students based on their political views. At the same time, anecdotes abound of students who believe that their professors are showing political bias -- even if other students in the same class disagree. A new study (abstract available here) offers an explanation for the students' perceptions that doesn't necessarily suggest that the bias is real or entirely discount the perceptions, either.
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When It Comes to Campus Crises, College Communications Staffs Plan, React, and Fret
As college presidents face pressure to respond to protests and social-media-fueled controversies, their teams are also feeling the heat. Communications staffs, in particular, are struggling to keep ahead of public discussions that seem only to get more volatile and intense. "I said last year at this time, I’ve never seen anything like it," says Teresa Flannery, vice president for communication at American University. "And I said it again this week."
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When States Make Higher Education Decisions Despite the Evidence
Doctoral candidate William Boland and Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education co-author an article about higher-education decision making.
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Could Antidepressants Prevent Alzheimer’s?
Yvette Sheline of the Perelman School of Medicine talks about her new research to find out it if antidepressants could help prevent Alzheimer’s disease.
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How Presidents Try to Stay Ahead of the Social-Media Outrage Machine
Students parade in blackface one day. A faculty member tweets inflammatory rhetoric the next. An activist group mounts a protest over campus climate, or sexual assault. The incidents come so fast that it’s difficult to keep up. This new normal has transformed the college presidency, intensifying its demands. Fueled by the breakneck pace of social media and its broad reach, controversies and protests build quickly, and campus leaders are scrambling to adapt their policies, practices, and teams to get ahead of it all.
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It’s Never Too Soon to Talk About Mental Health
As The Chronicle recently reported, a number of institutions have added the topic of student mental health to an already-crowded orientation schedule, using speakers, videos, skits, and an online course to educate students about their own, and one another’s, mental-health issues and available resources.
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Why Large Stocks Wake Up at This Time of Year
Donald Keim of the Wharton School talks about the stock market and why professional investors “go big” near year-end.