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Human Rights Commission Holds Hearing on Refugee Children and Families Seeking Protection
Sarah Paoletti of the Law School is mentioned for leading a hearing focused on the detention of immigrant children and families.
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Former Temple President Facing Calls to Resign
Ann Weaver Hart, former president of Temple University, is facing pressure to resign from her post as president of the University of Arizona because of her role at a for-profit university, The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. A group of legislators have called out Hart for serving on the board of DeVry Education Group, a for profit university company, saying it detracts from her work at the University of Arizona. Students and faculty have asked her to step down from the DeVry board, according to the Chronicle.
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Video: Is There a Racial ‘Care Gap’ In Medical Treatment?
Dorothy Roberts of the Law School and the School of Arts & Sciences is interviewed about racial disparities in medical treatment.
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Our Dangerous Obsession With Harvard, Stanford and Other Elite Universities
It’s that time of year again, when high-school seniors receive their college acceptances and sift through financial-aid offers to pick the place where they are going to spend the next four years in college. It’s also the time when seemingly everyone involved in the college search process — from the media to school counselors — are obsessed with the admissions decisions Harvard and dozens of other selective colleges and universities have made.
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Former U-Va. Student ‘Jackie’ to Sit for Deposition in Rolling Stone Lawsuit
The central figure in a discredited Rolling Stone account of a gang-rape at the University of Virginia has been ordered to take part in a deposition for a federal libel lawsuit filed against the magazine by an associate dean at the school, the first time she’ll give a sworn statement about her allegations. U.S. District Court Judge Glen E. Conrad has ordered the former U-Va. student known as “Jackie” to participate in interviews related to the $10 million lawsuit U-Va. associate dean Nicole Eramo has filed against the magazine.
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What Yelp Can Tell You About a Hospital That Official Ratings Can’t
Raina Merchant and student Benjamin Ranard of the Perelman School of Medicine are quoted about researching Yelp reviews of hospitals.
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Law School Renamed for Antonin Scalia, Again. Blame Acronym.
Justice Antonin Scalia could be caustic in his dissents, but he was also known for a sharp wit that often drew laughter from Supreme Court audiences. So perhaps even he would have found humor in the commotion over the new name, announced last week, of George Mason University’s law school — the Antonin Scalia School of Law — which, as snickering observers on social media quickly pointed out, makes for a rather unflattering acronym. Hashtags poking fun at the abbreviation and variations on it took off on Twitter and Facebook almost as soon as the news was made public.
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Ask Well: How Do You Die From Alzheimer’s?
Jason Karlawish of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted about the symptoms of patients who have reached advanced stages of Alzheimer’s disease.
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Stanford Dean: School’s Ultra-low Admit Rate Not Something to Boast About
Richard Shaw sees nothing to brag about in Stanford University’s microscopic admission rate. Dean of admission and financial aid at Stanford since September 2005, Shaw said he understands the public fascination with a measure of selectivity that now stands at 4.7 percent, lowest in the nation among prominent colleges and universities. That means the private university in Northern California turns down slightly more than 19 out of every 20 applicants. But Shaw didn’t advertise that fact on March 25 when he announced the entering fall class.
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Spoiled Milk
More than a few people probably chuckled a little, back in January, when the University of Maryland at College Park came under fire for a press release about research that linked drinking a brand of chocolate milk to recovery from concussions. Many said at the time that the press release seemed like unpaid advertising, given that the findings were never subject to peer review.