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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Rieder: Moderators Must Challenge Debate Falsehoods
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center is quoted about moderators challenging false claims during a debate.
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Lawmakers Eye Endowment Tax Status
The House Ways and Means Oversight subcommittee hearing Tuesday was nominally about the tax-exempt status of college endowments. But much of the discussion focused on college affordability -- a broader issue clearly on the minds of both Republicans and Democrats on the panel. It’s was unclear what that might mean in terms of a legislative response from the Ways and Means Committee, which deals with taxation issues.
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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.
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Video: What’s US Religion Worth? $1.2 Trillion, Says One Demographer
Ram Cnaan of the School of Social Policy & Practice shares his views on the financial worth of religion.
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Ohio U. Will Remove Roger Ailes’s Name from a Newsroom
Roger Ailes’s name will be removed from a television-station newsroom at Ohio University, and a $500,000 donation the former Fox News executive made to the university in 2007 will be returned, according to reports by the station, WOUB, and The Post, a student-run newspaper. Mr. Ailes, a 1962 alumnus of the university, has been accused by more than 20 women of sexual harassment. Fox News’s parent company, 21st Century Fox, recently reached a $20-million settlement with Gretchen Carlson, a former news anchor whose lawsuit precipitated the investigation that led to Mr.