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Students’ Demands Go Beyond Black and White
When Mi Gente, a group that represents Latino students at Duke University, announced that it would boycott a spring recruiting weekend for Latinos because its members were tired of simply being "poster children for brochures," black and Asian-American student groups took to social media to pledge their support. Meanwhile, they were busy with their own demands. All three wanted safe spaces where students could feel comfortable talking about their problems and an accelerated timeline for hiring minority professors.
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Daily Pennsylvanian Archives, as Old as 1885, Now Online
Digital archives of the University’s independent student news organization, The Daily Pennsylvanian, are featured.
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Colleges That Ask Applicants About Brushes With the Law Draw Scrutiny
The online admissions application for Auburn University appears simple, until you get to this question on Page 7: “Have you ever been charged with or convicted of or pled guilty or nolo contendere to a crime other than a minor traffic offense, or are there any criminal charges now pending against you?” Those who check “yes,” even though they have never been convicted of any crime, face extra scrutiny — a follow-up call from the admissions office asking for additional information, the university says.
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Audio: End-of-life Care in America
Ezekiel Emanuel of the Perelman School of Medicine and Wharton School and Justin Bekelman, also of Medicine, discuss end-of-life care in America and other countries.
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Oregon’s Step Back From a Branding Contract Doesn’t Mean Branding Is Dead
When the University of Oregon dropped its $3.4-million, multiyear contract with a national branding agency this month, it raised a lot of questions. William H. Faust knows this, because his clients, as well as some prospective clients, continue to ask them. "Everybody’s paying attention to it, because it’s high visibility and a big school and a big budget," says Mr. Faust, managing partner of Ologie, a company that works with colleges to develop branding campaigns. His clients want to know what, if anything, Oregon’s ending its contract means for marketing in higher education. Mr.
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Tennis Players Get an Oxygen Fix
Kamen Simeonov of the Perelman School of Medicine is cited for co-authoring a paper that found lower lung cancer incidence among people living at high elevations.
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In Giving to Colleges, the One Percenters Gain
College endowments may have grown last year by the smallest amount since 2012, as reported elsewhere on this site today, but institutions got some good financial news in the 2015 fiscal year: charitable contributions to colleges and universities rose to a record level, $40.3 billion, the Council for Aid to Education reports in its annual Voluntary Support of Education survey. Even so, a small and exclusive coterie of institutions is disproportionately benefiting from donors' largesse.
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Can Your BMI Predict How Long You’ll Live?
Rexford Ahima of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted about body mass index.
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Why Business Schools Should Let Their Students Start Businesses
Karl Ulrich of the Wharton School pens an op-ed on the importance of merging the entrepreneurial journey with a strong curriculum.
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Colleges Raised $1.2 Billion in Donations for Sports in 2015
Donations to capital campaigns for new facilities and commitments to cover more aid for athletes helped major-college athletic departments raise more than $1 billion in 2015, according to a report released on Wednesday by the Council for Aid to Education. It was the fourth time in the past five years that gifts for athletics had crossed the billion-dollar mark. But there are signs that donors may be reaching their limits, as overall athletics donations to the reporting institutions dipped slightly in 2015 from the year before.