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Will Saudi Student Boom End?
With the drop in oil prices compelling the Saudi Arabian government to make steep spending cuts, U.S. colleges and universities are closely watching what will happen with the government's foreign university scholarship program, which has sponsored tens of thousands of students to study overseas since 2005 and has stimulated a more than seventeenfold increase in the number of Saudi students at U.S. universities in that time. The nearly 60,000 Saudi students studying at U.S. universities in 2014-15 represent the fourth-largest group of international students by country of origin at U.S.
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La Salle Students Want ‘Gender Neutral’ Housing
Penn’s gender-neutral housing is cited.
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Must vs. Should
In 2011, the U.S. Department of Education issued a Dear Colleague letter that urged institutions to better investigate and adjudicate cases of campus sexual assault. The letter clarified how the department interprets Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, and for the past five years it has been the guiding document for colleges hoping to avoid a federal civil rights investigation into how they handle complaints of sexual violence.
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Design Technique Applied to Social Problems
Annette Fierro, Karen M’Closkey and Randall Mason of the School of Design comment on designer Bruce Mau’s geodesign approach to helping resolve social problems.
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In College Endowment Returns, Davids Beat the Goliaths
In the world of money management, bigger is often considered better. College and university endowments greater than $1 billion, for example, have long outperformed their smaller rivals. That may be changing.
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The 21st Century’s J.D.
Dean John Jackson of the School of Social Policy & Practice shares his commentary on how a master of social work degree is becoming the 21st century’s law degree.
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Study: Long Shifts by Doctors in Training Do Not Harm Patients
David Asch of the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School is quoted about studying shift lengths of internal medicine residents.
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Computers Could Help Stop Domestic Violence, Penn Study Finds
Richard Berk and Geoffrey Barnes of the School of Arts & Sciences and Susan Sorenson of the School of Social Policy & Practice are featured for their arraignment/machine-learning research.
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Philip Knight of Nike to Give $400 Million to Stanford Scholars
Philip H. Knight, the co-founder and chairman of Nike Inc., said on Monday that he had pledged to give Stanford University $400 million to recruit graduate students around the globe to address society’s most intractable problems, including poverty and climate change. The gift to the new Knight-Hennessy Scholars Program, which is modeled on the Rhodes scholarships, matches one of the largest individual donations ever to a university, the $400 million that John A. Paulson, the hedge fund tycoon, gave to Harvard last year to improve its engineering school.
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Georgetown Gets $10 Million for Holocaust Research as Jewish Studies Grow at Catholic School
Georgetown University, a Catholic institution long known for scholarship on the Arab world, is intensifying its study of Jewish civilization with aid from a series of significant donations. The latest, to be announced Wednesday, is a $10 million gift for research on the Holocaust. A 13-year-old Jewish studies program in the Jesuit university’s prestigious School of Foreign Service will be formally renamed the Center for Jewish Civilization next week. The shift in nomenclature is not a small matter in academia: It signifies money, depth and commitment.