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Cyber Monday: What Happens to Your Data When You Shop Online?
Doctoral candidate Timothy Libert of the Annenberg School for Communication is cited for researching websites that leak user data to third parties.
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Four Tough Things Columnists Should Do Before Writing About Universities
As an ongoing observer of the bipartisan War on College, I read a recent column on cost containment in higher education by The Washington Post’s Steven Pearlstein with great interest. Pearlstein is a smart guy, and he stresses four “tough things” that universities must do to contain costs. Some of the recommendations he makes based on what he “observed during four years as a professor at George Mason University” are worth considering.
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Video: Do Your Homework Before Donating on ‘Giving Tuesday’
Katherina Rosqueta of the School for Social Policy & Practice’s Center for High Impact Philanthropy offers advice about researching the effectiveness of charities.
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A Rare Condition Unfamiliar in U.S.
Michael Rubenstein of the Perelman School of Medicine pens an article about the rare disorder, Sydenham’s chorea.
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In Admissions, the Powerful Weigh In
Last spring, Brent W. Sembler saw an opening that might help him land a big gift. As he had done many times before, the Florida State University trustee sent a query to Janice V. Finney, longtime director of admissions. Was this student, who had been denied in December, perhaps "admissible?" Mr. Sembler asked. "Here’s why I’m asking," the trustee wrote in an email. The student’s "family is capable of funding our new Business School!" With a core grade-point average below 3.0, Ms. Finney said, fall admission was not possible.
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Can the Student Course Evaluation Be Redeemed?
In the coming weeks, students will participate in a ritual as familiar as it is reviled: evaluating their instructors. One of the latest and most visible critiques of these assessments came this year from Carl E. Wieman, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and professor at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education. He cast doubt on their validity and reliability, proposing that instead, professors complete an inventory of the research-based teaching practices they use. That would be more likely to promote learning than garden-variety evaluations do, Mr.
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With Diversity Comes Intensity in Amherst Free Speech Debate
Hundreds of students crammed into Amherst College’s Robert Frost Library for a sit-in against racial injustice that turned into a confessional, as one black or Hispanic student after another rose to talk about feelings of alienation and invisibility on campus. In the heat of the moment, the students drafted a list of demands for the administration. They wanted the college to stop calling its athletes the Lord Jeffs, after Lord Jeffery Amherst, the pre-Revolutionary War British commander who advocated germ warfare against Native Americans and for whom this college town was named.
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A Wharton Professor Explains 3 Ways Nice Guys Can Get Ahead at Work
Strategies for effective giving from the Wharton School’s Adam Grant’s book Give and Take.
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Switchback: The Startup Strategy That Might Be Right for You
Research that finds the benefits of a “switchback” approach for technology entrepreneurs co-authored by David Hsu of the Wharton School is highlighted.
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Student Debt in America: Lend With a Smile, Collect With a Fist
The American student loan crisis is often seen as a problem of profligacy and predation. Wasteful colleges raise tuition every year, we are told, even as middle-class wages stagnate and unscrupulous for-profit colleges bilk the unwary. The result is mounting unmanageable debt. There is much truth in this diagnosis. But it does not explain the plight of Liz Kelley, a Missouri high school teacher and mother of four who made a series of unremarkable decisions about college and borrowing. She now owes the federal government $410,000, and counting. This is a staggering and unusual sum.