Penn in the News

Every story needs a villain. And in many higher-education narratives, the enrollment manager wears black. Those who oversee the recruitment and retention of students are "ruining American higher education," a scholar once said. They’re "screwing the poor kids," an economist opined. The field is often described as the domain of cynical cutthroats, manipulative marketers, and worse. "We’re the evil ones," says Michael S.

President Amy Gutmann comments on attending the taping of “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah” on campus.

Nancy Rothbard of the Wharton School comments on whether presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s victory of the Democratic nomination cracked the glass ceiling.

At least in the realm of rhetoric, 1968 was a year of revolution. It is no wonder, then, that in that year two distinguished scholars, David Riesman and Christopher Jencks, wrote a book about the contemporary university using the term. Don’t be fooled by the title, however.

The work of Sara Heller of the School of Arts and Sciences is highlighted in this article on programs that prevent juvenile crime.

Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center says, “In the television age there’s been a progressive move toward personalization [of politics].”

A report being released today pushes back against the idea that state subsidies lowering tuition at public four-year universities disproportionately benefit students from wealthy families. The research, being released under the Brookings Institution’s series of Evidence Speaks reports, finds appropriations from state and local governments used to offset educational costs at public institutions are smaller for students from higher-income families than for those with lower incomes.

Dean Michael Delli Carpini of the Annenberg School for Communication is quoted about the Clinton campaign using celebrities who have established their political activism to help reach young female voters.

Sarah Heller of the School of Arts & Sciences is quoted about publishing research that illustrated how a Chicago-based summer jobs program successfully reduced violent-crime arrests among teens.

In what appears to be an audacious act of public forgetting, a controversial Texas campus-carry law allowing concealed guns in university buildings is scheduled to take effect on Monday, August 1, the 50th anniversary of the University of Texas to