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Republicans Threaten Funding Cuts After University Urges Leaving Christmas Out of Holiday Celebrations
In Tennessee this holiday season, people are fighting about how to celebrate. It started when the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s office of diversity and inclusion posted a message advising employees to avoid “an emphasis on religion or culture” at holiday parties. No Secret Santa gift swaps, it advised. No dreidels.
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Penn, CHOP: Promising New Results From Immunotherapy
Carl June of the Perelman School of Medicine is featured for leading immunotherapy trials.
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Changing Your Facebook Profile Picture Is Doing More Good Than You Might Think
Sandra González-Bailón of the Annenberg School for Communication says, “Of course social media doesn’t push you to risk your life and take to the streets, but it helps the actions of those who take the risk to gain international visibility.”
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With Faculty Diversity on Everyone’s Radar, HBCUs Worry About Losing Scholars
If a predominantly white university with a stepped-up diversity agenda comes trolling for talent, Walter M. Kimbrough knows he may have trouble competing with the money it can offer. But as president of Dillard University, a historically black institution in New Orleans, he says he can make a convincing case for his faculty members to stick around.
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Students: Rename Building Called ‘Lynch’ After Ex-president
Students at a small Pennsylvania college are demanding that administrators rename a building called "Lynch Memorial Hall" because of the racial overtones of the word "lynch." The building is named after Clyde A. Lynch, who was president of Lebanon Valley College from 1932 until his death in 1950. Students want school officials to either rename the building entirely or add Lynch's first name and middle initial, saying the word recalls the public executions of black men by white mobs in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
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The Problem With Public Pensions
Olivia Mitchell of the Wharton School comments on the difficulty of estimating and calculating pension liabilities in the public sector.
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How a Prominent Legal Group Could Change the Way Colleges Handle Rape
The American Law Institute, a scholarly group influential in legal circles, is beginning to craft guidelines on campus sexual assault that will seek to outline best practices and bring some clarity to the tangles of compliance with federal law.
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How This Supreme Court Case Could Change College Affirmative Action (+Video)
On December 9, the US Supreme Court will once again take up the case of Abigail Fisher, a former applicant rejected for admission to the University of Texas at Austin, whose allegations of unfair racial bias against whi
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Many Kids With Exemptions Have Gotten Some Vaccines
School of Nursing’s Alison Buttenheim shares her findings on the number of children who are vaccinated.
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Material One Thousand Times Thinner Than Paper Withstands the Squeeze To Retain Its Shape
Igor Bargatin of the School of Engineering and Applied Science is featured for researching the thinnest plates that can be picked up by hand.