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Elderly, Ailing – and Treated at Home
Ezekiel Emanuel of the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School writes about a pilot program for elderly Medicare patients which gives them the primary care right where they live.
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Malia Obama’s Gap Year Is Part of A Growing (and expensive) Trend
It sounds awfully nice: A yearlong postponement of schoolwork. The White House announced on Sunday that Malia Obama, the president’s older daughter, would be among the thousands of students to take a gap year between high school and college. The hiatus from classrooms, textbooks and tests has become an increasingly popular choice. The idea is that university-bound students go on an adventure, do something meaningful and, if all goes to plan, arrive at campus a year later more mature, focused and attuned to their goals.
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A Decade Later, Barbaro’s Legacy Lives On
Dean Richardson of the School of Veterinary Medicine is interviewed about Barbaro.
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Video: A University Moved to Fire a Professor After He Defended a Student’s Right to Debate Gay Marriage. Now He’s Suing.
A tenured professor and a legal institute are suing Marquette University, claiming a breach of contract for the suspension imposed after he publicly criticized an instructor for stifling debate in class. The conflict began in 2014: After a student complained after a philosophy class that he was disappointed that he and others who question gay marriage had not been allowed to express their views during the classroom discussion, the graduate-student instructor told him that opposition to gay marriage was homophobic and offensive and would not be tolerated in her theory of ethics class.
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‘Touch Tours’ Help Blind Experience Philadelphia’s Historic Food Scene
The hands-on tours at the Ancient Egypt exhibit at the Penn Museum are mentioned.
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U. Of Wisconsin at Madison Faculty Votes No Confidence in System’s President and Regents
Professors at the University of Wisconsin at Madison have voted no confidence in the university system’s president, Raymond W. Cross, and its Board of Regents, the Faculty Senate announced on Monday. The symbolic vote is the latest volley in a long-running dispute over the state of tenure and shared governance in the system. Under an overhaul signed by Gov. Scott Walker last summer, the Wisconsin Legislature stripped tenure and shared-governance protections from state law, leaving it to the regents to set new policies for the system on both fronts.
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San Diego State Officials Agree to Review Free-speech Policies After Outcry Over Anti-Muslim Fliers
After a protest over posters on campus that linked Muslim students to terrorism, San Diego State University President Elliot Hirshman on Monday agreed that school policies should be reviewed to ensure a balance between free speech and safety. But some students who met with Hirshman said they were disappointed that he has not strongly condemned the fliers. "It was better than expected, but not as good as we hoped," said Osama Alkhawaja, president of Students for Justice in Palestine at SDSU.
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Why Entrepreneurs Bring Benefits to Corporate Boards
Laura Huang of the Wharton School says, “Entrepreneurs may or may not actually make good directors — and that is still an empirical question — but this research importantly shows that, regardless, the mere appointment of an entrepreneur is associated with performance and real outcomes.”
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Sallie Mae Now Offers Education Loans to Parents
Research about college affordability led by the Institute for Research on Higher Education in the Graduate School of Education is cited.
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George Mason’s Plans to Honor Scalia Spark Protests Over the University’s Direction
In death, the late Antonin G. Scalia has sparked the sort of controversy that annoyed him while he was alive, a campus backlash against the perceived influence of conservatives on a public university. By agreeing to rename its law school after the U.S. Supreme Court justice at the behest of an anonymous donor of $20 million, George Mason University has inadvertently provided a flash point uniting several groups on campus with varying agendas.