Penn in the News

The architecture and design of Perry World House, set to open in September, are highlighted.

Three in 10 female undergraduates surveyed at Georgetown University said this year they had been sexually penetrated or sexually touched without their consent since they arrived at the school, a finding similar to what more than two dozen other prominent research universities have learned recently from their own students. The women told Georgetown that the attacks occurred through physical force or while they were incapacitated and unable to provide consent.

Christopher Yoo of the Law School is quoted about President Obama’s strategies to shift the debate about internet rules.

The nation’s colleges and universities just finished a school year of extraordinary debate on questions about racial inequality, with activists demanding steps to make campuses more inclusive for minority students. Protesters toppled the University of Missouri’s president after a series of racially charged incidents at the state flagship in Columbia and forced Princeton University to reckon with the segregationist legacy of one of its famed leaders, Woodrow Wilson, the nation’s 28th president.

Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center is quoted about people checking on opposing viewpoint and not relying solely on opinionated news.

The craze over the smash-hit Broadway musical Hamilton has reached epic proportions, and Wesleyan University is getting in on the act. On Wednesday the institution announced a new scholarship — the Wesleyan University Hamilton Prize for Creativity — that will fully fund one new student’s four-year education, starting this fall. The award honors the two Wesleyan graduates, Lin-Manuel Miranda ('02) and Thomas Kail ('99), who created and directed the musical, respectively, which chronicles the life of Alexander Hamilton via hip-hop music and a mostly black and Latino cast.

A recent University of Virginia law school graduate is challenging a federal directive that transformed the way colleges evaluate allegations of sexual assault on campus. In a lawsuit filed Thursday, the plaintiff, who was accused of and found responsible for sexual misconduct, argues that a 2011 letter from the U.S. Department of Education was a mandate improperly imposed on universities.

Aaron Wunsch of the School of Design comments on the Mutual Burial Ground of Kensington.

Dominic Sisti of the Perelman School of Medicine is interviewed about the evolution of treatment for behavioral health care.

When public college or university presidents are hired, their salaries always attract attention. But new research suggests the real growth in executive costs may be due to expenses and benefits, which these days go beyond the charge to live in the president's mansion. Presidents’ contracts have become long, complex and stuffed with extra benefits going far beyond base salary and a place to live, according to new research from James Finkelstein, a public policy professor at George Mason University who has been analyzing presidential contracts for several years.