Penn in the News

When the filmmaker Ken Burns and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author David McCullough asked David Levering Lewis to make a video criticizing Donald J. Trump, Mr. Levering Lewis thought it was "a jolly good idea." With a friend recording the video on his iPhone, Mr. Levering Lewis remarked that Mr. Trump’s staying power derives from "free association of reckless solutions to immigration, domestic terror, and whatever else comes to mind, along with verifiably absurd reiterations of disparaging untruth."

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.

Victor Pickard of the Annenberg School for Communication writes about net neutrality.

Turkey’s Higher Education Council reportedly demanded the resignation of 1,577 university deans on Tuesday as the widespread purges of state institutions begun after last week’s failed coup extended into the education sector. In addition, more than 15,000 education ministry officials were suspended and 21,000 schoolteachers had their licenses revoked.

Penn Medicine’s plans for a new building, housing the Center for Healthcare Technology, are profiled.

Doctoral candidate Kevin Gotkin of the Annenberg School for Communication writes and speaks about a Nashville comedy-thon.

Anne Norris of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on the importance of educating people about tick-bite avoidance.

Nearly every college boasts about its job-placement rate for new graduates, and most of the time you won’t find a number less than 90 percent. To get to that number, colleges survey their graduates six months after college graduation, and nearly half of the schools never ask their graduates that question again. In many cases, just one-third of graduates even answer such surveys.

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.