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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Men and women together in class is as much a part of college life today as final exams and grade-point averages. Half a century ago, that wasn't the case at many elite colleges. Nancy Weiss Malkiel, professor emerita of history at Princeton University, documents the movement that ended single-sex education and the social changes it brought about in Keep the Damned Women Out: The Struggle for Coeducation (Princeton University Press; $35).
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Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education comments on the increase in black students’ in historically black colleges and universities.
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Colleen M. Hanycz is moving with urgency and substance to reposition La Salle University in a competitive higher-education market, after a year of layoffs and a deficit. Since she arrived as president 15 months ago, La Salle has announced plans to build a new dormitory, remake the center of campus, overhaul the library, and cut 19 academic programs that attract few students. She has appointed almost an entirely new cabinet and launched a marketing campaign heralding La Salle as the place where "explorers are never lost."
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The Pennovation Center is highlighted.
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The Department of Education’s College Scorecard is, at its core, a simple college-search tool that highlights key data points with a few clicks. The most-talked-about piece: the average salary of students who attended a college, 10 years after they first enrolled. Each college’s profile also features its average annual cost, academic offerings, and graduation and retention rates, among other things. (Only students who receive federal financial aid are included in the data.)
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Faculty advocates argue that tenure decisions are the primary domain of professors, and yet most institutions still involve presidents in the process. So what is the appropriate role of a college or university president in tenure cases? That’s what faculty members and administrators at Lafayette College are trying to figure out in light of a recent presidential tenure veto that roiled the campus.
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Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center shares her thoughts on the first presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
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Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center says, “Lack of basic civics knowledge is worrisome and an argument for an increased focus on civics education in the schools.”
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SAT scores fell modestly this year for the last high school class to take the old version of the college admission test. The average total score for graduating students who took the old SAT at least once through January was 1484, out of a maximum score of 2400, the College Board reported Tuesday. That was 12 points lower than the national average for the previous class in a comparable period. The total drop included declines of three points on the critical reading section of the test, four points in math and five points in writing.
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SAT scores fell modestly this year for the last high school class to take the old version of the college admission test. The average total score for graduating students who took the old SAT at least once through January was 1484, out of a maximum score of 2400, the College Board reported Tuesday. That was 12 points lower than the national average for the previous class in a comparable period. The total drop included declines of three points on the critical reading section of the test, four points in math and five points in writing.