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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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A New Financial-Aid Timeline Could Reshape Admissions. Here’s How Colleges Are Preparing.
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Audio: In a Fight for Tomorrow’s Viewers, Comcast Comes Back to School
Penn is listed as one of the local universities whose students will be given the option to sign up for Xfinity on campus.
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Commentary: Trump’s D-List of Prosperity Preachers
Anthea Butler of the School of Arts & Sciences shares her opinion about the network of religious leaders and “prosperity preachers” that support Donald Trump as a presidential candidate.
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Trump’s Dr. Oz Appearance Has Nothing to Do With Health
Jonathan Moreno of the Perelman School of Medicine and the School of Arts & Sciences says, “You can’t assess a human being’s medical condition by chatting up on a stage with them.”
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Tough Call for Surgeons: Should They Tell Transplant Patients Their Donor Was an Addict?
Emily Blumberg of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on how she explains to transplant patients, without revealing the identity of the donor, that the donor engaged in high- or low-risk behaviors.
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Financial Aid Gets a Fast Forward In College Admissions Process
The entire college admissions process this year may get a fast forward. High school seniors may be able to figure out which college they can afford much earlier in the process. For the first time, students will be able to file federal financial aid forms for college on Oct. 1 - three months earlier than the previous date of Jan. 1. The move-up was announced by President Obama last year as a way to give students information about the aid they qualify for earlier in the college admissions process.
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Chicago Professors Fire Back
More than 150 faculty members at the University of Chicago on Tuesday published an open letter to freshmen in which they take a strikingly different approach from the official communication sent by a Chicago dean. Safe spaces and trigger warnings, the letter said, are legitimate topics for discussion and reflect the real needs of many students. The earlier letter -- much debated in recent weeks -- was from John Ellison, dean of students. He told incoming students not to expect what many of their peers elsewhere may have.
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How Do We Stop the Exodus of Minority Teachers?
Richard Ingersoll of the Graduate School of Education and the School of Arts & Sciences is quoted about teacher retention and minority teacher recruitment.
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Why More Women Than Ever Are Putting Off Retirement
Collaborative research from Olivia Mitchell of the Wharton School about retirement and debt is cited.
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Growth in Workers’ Premiums Slow as Deductibles Pick Up the Slack
Mark Pauly of the Wharton School is quoted about the challenges of health-care deductibles in regards to employees.