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Flagging Disciplines Reclaim Their Relevance
The planet has never been more connected, but students are hardly flocking to study foreign languages. Over all, enrollments in the courses have stagnated. Colleges are increasingly dropping foreign language as a requirement for graduation. Many departments have been targeted for closure or consolidation. That’s not true for all languages. Interest has surged in Arabic, Chinese, Korean, and Portuguese, mirroring geopolitical trends.
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Disrupting the Competitive Landscape: Covering the 2016 Wharton China Business Forum
Undergraduate students Megan Foo of the Wharton School and Nelson Dong of the School of Arts & Sciences co-author a blog post about their experiences covering the 2016 Wharton China Business Forum.
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Newspaper Adviser Is Fired After Students’ Scoop Roils Maryland Campus
When student reporters at Mount St. Mary’s University, a small Catholic institution in Maryland, published an article in January that quoted the university’s president likening struggling freshmen to bunnies that should be drowned, they knew it might get a big reaction. It finally came this week, it appears — in the form of a pink slip for the faculty adviser of the campus newspaper. The university informed the adviser, Ed Egan, that he had been disloyal and was now fired, a move seen by many on the campus in Emmitsburg as a retaliatory strike.
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Deficit Threatens Stability of University of California, Berkeley, Official Says
The chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, said Wednesday that the university had a “substantial and growing” deficit that could threaten its long-term stability and that it needed to reduce expenses and raise revenues to maintain its position as a premier public institution. The announcement comes against the backdrop of a long-running political dispute between Gov. Jerry Brown and Janet Napolitano, the president of the University of California, over funding for the university system.
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In Search of Consensus
Earlham College regularly organizes intense meetings on campus issues, with faculty, staff and students all getting a chance to speak.
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Obama Crackdown on College Fraud
The Obama administration is creating a new office at the U.S. Department of Education dedicated to investigating and punishing illegal activity at colleges and providing debt relief to defrauded federal loan borrowers. Officials on Monday announced a new “enforcement unit” that will be charged with investigating misconduct at colleges, imposing administrative actions against colleges and resolving student loan debt relief claims linked to fraud.
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Amid Colombia’s Zika Outbreak, Phila. Ob/Gyn Sees No Panic
Jack Ludmir of the Perelman School of Medicine is highlighted for spending the last several weeks in Colombia helping control the Zika outbreak.
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The New Era of 30-day Fitness Challenges
Research on the fresh start effect co-authored by Katherine Milkman and Jason Riis and doctoral student Hengchen Dai of the Wharton School is cited.
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Maryland Is Still Grappling With Separate But Equal in Higher Education
A recent ruling in a decade-old case over the lack of investment in Maryland’s historically black colleges shows the state’s troubles with inequity in higher education are far from resolved. Federal judge Catherine C. Blake nixed a proposal by a coalition of alumni from Maryland’s four historically black institutions to merge the University of Baltimore with the state’s largest public HBCU, Morgan State University.
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How a Simpler Approach to Retirement Savings Can Make You Richer
Olivia Mitchell and Donald Keim of the Wharton School are featured for their collaborative research on simplifying the choices offered when selecting a retirement savings plan.