Penn in the News

It’s hard to separate Lincoln University in Missouri from its history: after the Civil War, veterans of the 62nd and 65th U.S. Colored Infantries headed back to the Midwest from Texas and Louisiana, where they had served, to establish a school for African-Americans. The Lincoln Institute, named to honor the veterans' slain commander in chief, soon began offering college courses and became part of the black land-grant system. Decades later, in 1921, the Missouri Legislature passed a bill introduced by Walthall M.

A study led by Diana Mutz of the Annenberg School for Communication and the School of Arts & Sciences about the opinions of Harry Potter readers on Donald Trump’s political views is highlighted.

Penn police officers Ryan James and Gary Cooper are highlighted for replacing a stolen iPad for a child suffering with a rare form of leukemia.

The vast majority of freshmen expect their colleges to provide a welcoming environment for people from diverse religious and nonreligious perspectives, according to findings from a new survey released this week. But those same students may not be so welcoming themselves. Researchers from New York University and North Carolina State University joined with Interfaith Youth Core to conduct the national study at 122 institutions last year.

Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education writes about diversity in higher education and using minority-serving institutions as models.

The lawyer whom embattled Temple University president Neil D. Theobald has hired as he tries to stave off his ouster by the university board has a long history of representing college presidents who need to negotiate exit deals once relationships have soured. Raymond D. Cotton, a Washington lawyer who works for the Boston-based Mintz Levin firm, is a nationally known expert on college presidential compensation.

This month, Hillary Clinton announced a plan to make public colleges free for the children of any family earning less than $125,000 a year. The move was widely seen as an appeal to supporters of her primary opponent Bernie Sanders, who made free college a pillar of his insurgent campaign. Binyamin Appelbaum of The New York Times wrote Saturday that the plan could have the perverse effect of driving tuition higher. As is often the case with campaign promises, the details are fuzzy. And probably for good reason. A look at how states finance higher education shows that the more Mrs.

David Eisenhower of the Annenberg School for Communication and Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center comment on political conventions.

Elizabeth Turk-Karan of the Perelman School of Medicine writes about people suffering from PTSD.

Three professors at the University of Texas at Austin are suing the institution over its response to the state’s new campus carry law, which explicitly permits licensed, concealed weapons on campus. The law is supposed to go into effect Aug. 1 on public university campuses in the state, and a year later at community colleges. Specifically, the professors seek the right to ban guns from their classrooms -- something the university has maintained would put it out of compliance with the new law.