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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
Penn In the News
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center comments on Donald Trump’s recent statements regarding Hillary Clinton’s “stamina.”
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Kent Smetters of the Wharton School comments on a forecasting tool that estimates what will happen as a result of Donald Trump’s plan to deport undocumented workers.
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Law student Sarah Hughes writes about her experience as a winter Olympics athlete and the significance of role models.
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David Skeel of the Law School co-authors an article about revising what it means for banks to file for bankruptcy.
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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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U.S. News & World Report, that heavyweight of the college rankings game, recently hosted a conference focused partially on diversity in higher education. I did an interview for the publication prior to the forum and spoke on a panel at the event. I was happy to do it. As dean of one of the country’s most diverse engineering schools, I am particularly invested in these issues. My panel focused on how to help women and underrepresented minority students succeed in STEM fields, and I’m grateful to U.S. News for leading the discussion.
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Vanderbilt University announced Monday that it will delete the word “Confederate” from the stone pediment at the entrance to a student dormitory known as Memorial Hall, becoming the latest in a wave of schools to alter how their campuses display words and images associated with the southern cause in the Civil War. To make the change, the private university in Nashville was required under the terms of a 2005 court ruling to pay $1.2 million to the Tennessee division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
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A black student at Pitzer College and two other minority students at the Claremont Colleges, of which Pitzer is a part, were looking for a fourth to share housing for the summer. One line in the posting -- "POC only" (for people of color) -- turned the roommate search into the subject of a national debate. Was it legitimate for black students to seek only nonwhite roommates? Was the posting evidence of self-segregation by minority college students? The students have received an onslaught of criticism.