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4/26
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
Penn In the News
Four years after two senior academics at Stanford University challenged medical schools to stop lecturing and start flipping their classrooms, major reforms at underway at a handful of colleges to change the way they teach medicine. The University of Vermont last week became the most recent institution to join the trend, announcing a pedagogical reform in its College of Medicine that observers say is the most sweeping yet. The college will over the next several years remove all lecture courses, replacing them with videos students watch on their own time.
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Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education writes about her views on why college and university faculties are not more racially diverse.
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John Clarke of the School of Arts & Sciences is mentioned for comparing the diversity of telelosts and holosteans in the fossil record.
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Several racially charged fliers were found in buildings in the heart of the University of Michigan’s campus in Ann Arbor on Monday, causing outrage among students after images were shared on social media. One reads, “Euro-Americans! STOP — Apologizing — Living in fear — Denying your heritage. . . BE WHITE.” Another lengthy flier advised white women not to date black men, with lines such as, “Your kids probably wouldn’t be smart.”
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A row of freshmen stand in a row, clad only in their underwear, against a brick wall in a dirty fraternity basement. They’ve already chugged several cans of beer and bottles of hot sauce, when a senior member of the fraternity -- the chapter’s de facto drill instructor -- picks one pledge out of the lineup, makes him promise not to puke, and forces a gulp of whiskey down his throat. The freshman immediately vomits. As punishment, he is forced into a cage, where he is drenched with beer, liquor and urine.
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Shaun Harper of the Graduate School of Education comments on students using social media and other forms of protest against racial incidents on campuses.
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Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center says, “The reality is most people have made up their minds before they view the debates and so the value of debates is confirming an already made decision, not creating a new decision.”
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Jeffrey Drebin of the Perelman School of Medicine is highlighted as a member of a team that hopes to find a breakthrough for treating pancreatic cancer.
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Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center discussed the importance of debates for presidential candidates.
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Peter Fader of the Wharton School is cited for his book Customer Centricity.