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State Action on Sex Assaults
Impatient with attempts by both colleges and Congress to address the issues surrounding campus sexual assault, legislators in at least 28 states this year introduced bills on the topic, according to a report released today by the Education Commission of the States and NASPA: Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education.
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Now Prices Can Change From Minute to Minute
Peter Fader of the Wharton School comments on dynamic pricing.
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As Housing Projects Starts, Another Battle Flares on a Revolutionary War Site in Princeton
Excavation work began this month on a privately owned portion of a Revolutionary War battlefield that historical activists are trying to preserve from development by a prominent academic institute. The Princeton Battlefield Society is hoping to halt the plans of the Institute of Advanced Study, which is starting work to build faculty housing.
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Academe Must Confront Its Racist Past
Much of what I’ve learned about the intersection of American and African-American history, I’ve learned as an extracurricular activity. Whether it was the emergence of the formerly enslaved into positions as governor or members of Congress during Reconstruction, the backlash to that progress post-Reconstruction, or the heroism of scores of African-American soldiers who fought even as they were denied their basic rights as citizens, this history has been marginalized.
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The 2015 Influence List
Students speaking out on race. An alumna fighting to save her college. A governor taking on tenure. This year’s group of 10 influencers and agitators shook up higher education in the classroom, on campus, and beyond.
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Penn Study: Aspirin May Help Earlier Detection of Breast Cancer
Despina Kontos of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted as one of the co-authors of a study that revealed breast tissue density might be lower for women who use aspirin.
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The 2015 Influence List
Students speaking out on race. An alumna fighting to save her college. A governor taking on tenure. This year’s group of 10 influencers and agitators shook up higher education in the classroom, on campus, and beyond.
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Groups Converge for Mock Shooting Near University of Texas
Only a handful of gun-rights advocates and those supporting Texas’ new, less restrictive campus-carry law showed up near the University of Texas campus here on Saturday for a highly publicized but divisive demonstration and mock shooting in favor of ending gun-free zones. A few demonstrators carried legal AK-47 and AR-15 rifles before the first stage of the gathering, a walk that began at a parking garage just west of the 51,000-student campus. They were outnumbered by throngs of reporters, photographers and television cameras, and later by counter-demonstrators.
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What Scalia’s Controversial Remarks About African Americans Exposes About U.S. Higher Education
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia just stirred up another controversy with comments about why African Americans might be better off if they are not accepted into top colleges and universities but rather to “slower-track” schools.” Scalia made the comments during a court hearing in a case challenging the race-conscious admissions plan at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Filmmaker/Author Tukufu Zuberi Documents How Africa Shapes the World
Tukufu Zuberi of the School of Arts & Sciences is profiled for his latest book, African Independence: How Africa Shapes the World.