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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Video: Temple University’s Incoming Freshmen Set Record, Penn Students Arrive on Campus
The New College House is highlighted where over 300 freshmen will move into today.
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Labor Board Ruling on Graduate Student Employment Rankles Universities, Lawmakers
The nation’s most-elite universities have watched graduate students fight for the right to be represented as employees, knowing that even if teachers and research assistants formed unions, schools were under no obligation to recognize the students in negotiations. Not anymore. A National Labor Relations Board decision granting graduate students the legal protection to unionize now forces private universities to bargain with organized graduate groups, a new reality that’s not sitting too well with schools.
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Decision Time
The key to graduating in four years (at least in the minds of many parents) is picking a major early and sticking with it. But a new report suggests students who settle on a major as late as senior year are more likely to graduate from college than students who declare one the second they set foot on campus. The report, published by the Education Advisory Board, a research and consulting firm based in Washington, D.C., challenges the notion that changing majors is keeping students in college past their intended graduation date and driving up their debt.
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Virginia School District Disproportionately Punishes Black Students, Complaint Says
A report published by the Graduate School of Education about disciplinary action in schools is cited.
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More Students Take ACT Exam, and Growing Portion Aren’t College Ready
More high-school graduates are taking the ACT college-entrance exam, as states push students to consider their options for higher education. But the test results show a growing portion aren’t actually ready for college. Sixty-four percent of 2016 high school graduates sat for the standardized test, up from 49% in 2012. The jump comes as more states—including Mississippi, Nevada and South Carolina—require districts to administer the tests, in the hope of increasing students’ awareness of college pathways.
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Medical Experts: TV Doctors’ Diagnoses of Clinton Are “Dangerous” and “Unethical”
Jonathan Moreno of the Perelman School of Medicine and the School of Arts & Sciences says, “Ethically, unless you have entered into a therapeutic relationship with a patient, you are not supposed to diagnose their medical condition.”
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ACT Scores Show a Smaller Share of Students Are ‘College-ready’
This year’s high school graduates were less likely to demonstrate college readiness on the ACT admission test than those who took the exam the year before, according to results made public Wednesday. ACT officials attributed the falling achievement levels to a rise in the number of students tested. Nearly 2.1 million graduating seniors took the ACT, the nation’s most widely used admission test, an all-time high. They amounted to about 64 percent of the class of 2016. An estimated 59 percent took the test in the previous class.
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University of Texas Students Find the Absurd in a New Gun Law
On the first day of classes at the University of Texas in this city that revels in its own oddball creativity, students protested a law allowing concealed handguns on state college campuses by carrying something they thought was just as ridiculous and out of place: Thousands of sex toys. “These laws won’t protect anyone. The campus doesn’t want them,” said an organizer of the protest, Jessica Jin. “It’s absurd. So, I thought, we have to fight absurdity with absurdity.” On Wednesday, Ms.
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Colleges Are Dropping Their SAT Subject Test Requirement
Students applying to some top New England colleges will have fewer tests to take, as a growing number of colleges will no longer require applicants to submit scores from SAT subject tests. In the past year, Amherst, Dartmouth, and Williams Colleges have dropped the subject test requirement, reports The Boston Globe. Columbia University first announced the new policy this spring after saying that the exams lend little insight into students’ readiness, and can be detrimental to low-income and minority students.
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Channeling Charles Siepmann for Public Media’s Future
Victor Pickard of the Annenberg School for Communication writes about the impact of scholar Charles Siepmann’s legacy on the public media’s future.