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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Feds Target ‘Predatory’ Publishers
The Federal Trade Commission on Friday filed a complaint against the academic journal publisher OMICS Group and two of its subsidiaries, saying the publisher deceives scholars and misrepresents the editorial rigor of its journals. The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada, marks the first time the FTC has gone after what are often known as “predatory” publishers.
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Inquirer Editorial: Business Tax Breaks Aren’t Paying Off
Robert Inman of the Wharton School is quoted about business tax breaks saying, "One of the principles of tax economics is that if the tax is high, people find a way of moving around it.”
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As Boys Get Fatter, Parents Worry One Body Part Is Too Small
Aseem Shukla of the Perelman School of Medicine comments about parents expressing concern about the growth of their sons’ penises.
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Video: Why Data Citation Is a Computational Problem
Susan Davidson of the School of Engineering and Applied Science is featured about how researchers can cite a particular search of a given database so others can duplicate that search.
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Virginia Tech Alerts Campus After Emails Threaten Violence; Police Say People at Four Other Schools Got the Same Threats
Virginia Tech officials warned the campus community after threatening emails arrived at multiple campus email addresses Monday afternoon. Campus police are investigating. “We take all threats seriously,” spokesman Mark Owczarski wrote in an email Monday afternoon. “We issued a campus wide email to make the community aware and ask people to share information if they have any.” Later in the afternoon, campus police reported that people at four other universities had received the same email, he said.
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Are You Career Competent?
Joseph Barber of Career Services writes about the importance of graduate students and postdocs articulating their competencies to prospective employers.
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Colleges Brace for Impact of Overtime Rule
Colleges are worried about how to cover the costs of overtime pay that dozens of coaches, counselors, and other employees may soon become entitled to under a new federal rule designed to ensure they're paid equitably. The new law, a change to the Fair Labor Standards Act that takes effect in December, makes more full-time salaried employees eligible for overtime pay. Those employees who earn up to $47,000 per year will be eligible for extra pay for work over 40 hours a week; now only those who earn up to $23,000 per year are.
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What Colleges Can Do Right Now to Help Low-Income Students Succeed
In the fall of 2008, a team of researchers began studying some 3,000 Pell Grant recipients who had enrolled in Wisconsin’s 42 public colleges and universities for the first time that year. At age 18, they were ambitious, committed (all began full time), and entirely unaware that, six years later, fewer than half of them would complete a degree of any kind. What they also did not know (yet) was that the research team, which I led, would follow them on their college journeys.
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A Rite of August Shrinks Away for Some New Yorkers
A collaborative study about Americans being treated for mental disorders with medication instead of therapy from the School of Social Policy & Practice is cited.
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University of Chicago Strikes Back Against Campus Political Correctness
The anodyne welcome letter to incoming freshmen is a college staple, but this week the University of Chicago took a different approach: It sent new students a blunt statement opposing some hallmarks of campus political correctness, drawing thousands of impassioned responses, for and against, as it caromed around cyberspace.