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You’ll Be Outraged at How Easy It Was to Get You to Click on This Headline
Jonah Berger of the Wharton School comments on clickbait.
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At Home on the Range, Liberty U.’s President Talks Guns and God
“Bring me that blue box," Jerry L. Falwell Jr. instructs his son Trey. The blue box is gingerly delivered, placed atop a wooden shelf, and carefully popped open. The gun inside, resting atop a gray egg-crate inlay, is huge. Among the arsenal assembled at this outdoor shooting range, which is just up the road from Liberty University’s central campus, the gun in the case stands out. Mr. Falwell, president of Liberty, received it as a Christmas gift from his wife’s parents.
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Northwestern Professor Raises Questions About Its Branch in Qatar
Northwestern University is one of six prominent U.S. schools operating branches in Qatar in a complex called Education City. The university, based in Illinois, has 207 students and 35 faculty members in Doha. Since the branch opened in 2008, specializing in journalism and communication, Northwestern has awarded 137 bachelor’s degrees in the Persian Gulf emirate. The university’s faculty in Doha includes a former managing editor of the Chicago Sun-Times. Stephen F. Eisenman, an art history professor at Northwestern’s home campus in Evanston, has some questions about all of this.
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Class Differences in Child-rearing Are on the Rise
Annette Lareau of the School of Arts & Sciences is mentioned for her research and book Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race and Family Life.
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Tenure or Bust
Faculty members in the University of Wisconsin System objected in droves this fall to a survey of their views on tenure, which some said was poorly designed and funded by a think tank that’s taken conservative stances on various state issues. But if the survey was ever any attempt at gathering data to convince Wisconsinites to further weaken tenure in the state -- as some critics have alleged, and which the think tank denies -- it backfired.
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Kaiser Permanente Plans to Open a Medical School
Kaiser Permanente, the health system based in California that combines a nonprofit insurance plan with its own hospitals and clinics, announced Thursday that it would open its own medical school in the state in 2019. The system’s leaders said their central goal was to teach Kaiser’s model of integrated care to a new generation of doctors who will be under pressure to improve health outcomes and control costs by working in teams and using technology.
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Father’s Lawsuit Blames Hazing for Penn State Altoona Student’s Suicide
Brutal fraternity hazing led to the suicide of a Pennsylvania State University student, according to a lawsuit filed in Philadelphia by his father. Marquise Braham, 18, jumped from the roof of an 11-story hotel on Long Island on March 14, 2014, a day before he was to return to Penn State Altoona and rejoin the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity.
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Mustaches Muscle Out Women at Medical Institutions
Mackenzie Wehner of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted for leading a study that shows women are less likely to hold academic medical leadership roles than men with mustaches.
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New Study Fuels Debate Over ‘Mismatch’ Theory in Race-Conscious Admissions
A new study based on University of California data lends support to an argument that the Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia caused a furor in raising last week: that affirmative action can hinder some black students’ prospects of becoming scientists by channeling them into top colleges where their poor academic preparation causes them to struggle.
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Why It’s Harder Than Ever for a Poor Kid to Get Into a Good College
Laura Perna of the Graduate School of Education says, “The gap between the haves and the have-nots is just getting bigger.”