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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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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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Victor Pickard of the Annenberg School for Communication writes about the impact of scholar Charles Siepmann’s legacy on the public media’s future.
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Dan Ueda of the School of Engineering and Applied Science is highlighted for helping tailor the Research Experience for Teachers program to middle school STEM teachers.
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This fall, for the first time, fraternities and sororities at Indiana University must sign an agreement that would allow university employees, including police officers, to enter and search their houses whenever there is reason to suspect laws or university rules are being broken. The agreement is similar to those at many private universities.
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Punctuating a string of Obama-era moves to shore up labor rights and expand protections for workers, the National Labor Relations Board ruled Tuesday that students who work as teaching and research assistants at private universities have a federally backed right to unionize. The case arose from a petition filed by a group of graduate students at Columbia University, who are seeking to win recognition for a union that will allow them a say over such issues as the quality of their health insurance and the timeliness of stipend payments.
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The plight of high-achieving, low-income students who "undermatch," enrolling in less-selective colleges than their grades and test scores suggest they could, has gotten a lot of attention. At least one prominent effort is underway to provide advising and information to help such students get into and through top colleges. Now a new book intends to expand the definition of match to include factors beyond selectivity and to extend the concept to a broader group of students.
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Maurice Schweitzer of the Wharton School co-writes an article about a better way for Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte to apologize.
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Dual-career programs have become widely seen as vital in faculty recruiting. To get one half of a faculty couple, a college needs to offer a good opportunity to the spouse, the theory goes. Colleges do this in a variety of ways, sometimes going so far as to authorize new lines in some departments so that both halves of a couple have a reason to move. But other institutions do relatively little to help. Much of the discussion about dual-career issues in academe has assumed that these efforts are important in recruiting both male and female academics.
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Angela Duckworth of the School of Arts & Sciences is cited for popularizing the term “grit.”
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Doctoral candidate Amanda Washington and Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education write about what is leading to more students to enroll in historically black colleges and universities.