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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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When professors complain about students to administrators, they typically assume their grievances will be private. But students in the social work program at Smith College held a protest Tuesday after someone leaked two letters from faculty members to college leaders. Those letters accused the social work program of letting students make unfair accusations against people who run parts of the program.
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When Chris J. Brown heard about the Virginia Tech massacre nearly a decade ago, he began questioning why it was illegal for students to protect themselves by carrying guns on college campuses. Mr. Brown has always loved guns. His family owns firearms, and as a kid he read Guns & Ammo magazine. When he turned 21, he bought his first weapon and secured a concealed-handgun permit soon thereafter.
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John Landis and Eugenie Birch of the School of Design are quoted about developing and revitalizing Norristown.
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Katherine Milkman of the Wharton School is mentioned for her collaborative study about the impact of preparing a backup plan.
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Algonquin College, a community college in Ontario, is withdrawing from Saudi Arabia. The college plans to transfer control of its male-only campus in Jazan, a city close to the Yemeni border, to its Saudi partner. “After more than a year of negotiation, we were unable to come to an agreement that would have met our financial objectives,” Algonquin’s president, Cheryl Jensen, said in a news release. “We have said from the beginning that the Jazan campus must be financially viable for us to continue operating.”
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Academic prioritization, on its face, sounds innocuous. Who in academe wouldn’t want to prioritize academics? Yet the term has taken on a negative connotation, with some faculty members who have gone through the process saying it feels more like The Hunger Games than anything aimed at improving educational quality. At the same time, administrative proponents of prioritization say it’s their duty to assess the viability of academic programs to safeguard the future of the institution.
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Katherine Kuchenbecker of the School of Engineering and Applied Science comments on the wrist being a good location for delivering touch cues.
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A project called “The Gambia Goat Diary” conducted by Corey Spies and Brianna Parsons of the School of Veterinary Medicine is featured.
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Hillary Clinton’s stance on public higher education — that every American student should be able to graduate from college debt free and, in millions of cases, tuition free — marks the first time that such a bold, expansive proposal has been put forth by a major party’s presidential nominee. This proposition could not come at a more crucial time. As Clinton proposes, and as President Obama and Sen. Bernie Sanders have said, we must expand college access like never before and solve the problem of staggering student-loan debt once and for all.
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Collaborative research from Matthew Levendusky of the School of Arts & Sciences about the media depiction of a divided political scene is cited.