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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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U. Kentucky Is Suing Its Student Newspaper, Trying to Block Sexual Assault Reporting
The University of Kentucky is suing the school’s independent student newspaper, the Kentucky Kernel, in an effort to block the release of records related to a sexual assault investigation on campus, a rare move that the university says is necessary to protect victims’ private and confidential information.
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Pressure to Build the Class: 2016 Survey of Admissions Directors
The pressure on college admissions offices to produce a new class is getting more intense, according to the 2016 Inside Higher Ed Survey of College and University Admissions Directors. And the percentage of colleges that met their goals by May 1, the traditional date by which colleges aim to have created their class, is down.
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Harvard, Searching for Endowment Manager, Reports a Loss
Harvard is looking for a new manager for its endowment, the largest of any university. And based on results announced on Thursday, there will be plenty of room for improvement. The university reported an overall loss of 2 percent on its investments for the year ended on June 30, bringing their value to $35.7 billion. While many endowments have been posting slightly negative returns for the last fiscal year, Harvard’s showing comes after years of poor performance as a series of investment chiefs have come and gone.
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UC Campuses Scramble to Make Room For Thousands More New California Students
On move-in day at UCLA, freshman Ashley Sanchez pulled two bins filled with blankets, toiletries, cleaning supplies, snacks, notebooks and her favorite stuffed whale to her new dorm and opened the door. Three beds, three desks and three wardrobes were squeezed into a room that used to house two students. As the last roommate to move in, Sanchez was left with the top bunk in a tight corner with a low ceiling over the right half of the bed.
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Zero Correlation Between Evaluations and Learning
A number of studies suggest that student evaluations of teaching are unreliable due to various kinds of biases against instructors. (Here’s one addressing gender.) Yet conventional wisdom remains that students learn best from highly rated instructors; tenure cases have even hinged on it. What if the data backing up conventional wisdom were off? A new study suggests that past analyses linking student achievement to high student teaching evaluation ratings are flawed, a mere “artifact of small sample sized studies and publication bias.”
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Commentary: Extra Money for Pa. Schools May Fall Short
Rand Quinn, Matthew Steinberg and doctoral candidate Cameron Anglum of the Graduate School of Education write about the financial hardships of the Pennsylvania public education system.
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Why Students Who Do Well in High School Bomb in College
Angela Duckworth of the School of Arts & Sciences is cited for her research on “grit” and how some people have taken her findings too far.
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Consider a College With a Focus on Minority Students
Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education talks about the benefits of minority-serving institutions.
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Another Racial Slur Found On Campus Where ‘KKK’ Was Spray-painted On a Wall
The president of Eastern Michigan University notified the campus Wednesday evening that another racial slur had been found on campus, the day after students protested offensive graffiti spray-painted on the outside of a building. On Tuesday morning, a wall was found with “KKK” sprayed in large red, white and blue letters, and underneath in black, “LEAVE [racial slur].”
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Firestorms at 2 Colleges After Students Share Racially Charged Photos
In the span of a week, students at two colleges have found themselves at the center of widespread criticism for posting racially charged photos to social media. At Belmont University in Nashville, a student was expelled from the school on Tuesday after sharing a photo of football players with the Philadelphia Eagles raising their fists during the national anthem, according to a report from The Tennessean.