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Why German-Style Education Is Coming To America
Minnesota State Senator Terri Bonoff gets a lot of requests to attend ceremonial openings. But when Swiss-German manufacturing company Bühler asked her to cut the ribbon at its new apprenticeship program, it sparked her interest. Based on the German dual system, Bühler’s apprenticeship program brings in trainee-hires as full-time employees with benefits, and partners with a local college to provide its trainees with classroom instruction – alongside the experience they are gaining on the job.
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Retailers Are Growing Anxious as Holiday Shopping Season Looms
Barbara Kahn of the Wharton School comments on how Black Friday sales have shifted over the years.
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Student and Corporate Demands Shape Curriculum
Dean Geoffrey Garrett of the Wharton School says, “Better leaders are people who make better decisions, and that means better-informed decisions.”
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College Presidents Defend Importance of Free Speech
As debates about race and other social issues flare on campuses, college presidents are increasingly intervening to draw a line when cultural sensitivity conflicts with freedom of speech. At schools including Yale, Williams College and Wesleyan University, leaders have in recent weeks taken steps to assert the importance of the free expression of ideas, even those that some might find objectionable.
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Are Good Doctors Bad for Your Health?
Ezekiel Emanuel of the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School pens an op-ed about a recent study that finds patients receive better care when senior physicians are absent from the hospitals.
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A Cherished Custom at Penn, Any Way You Slice It
The University tradition of throwing toast at sporting events and singing “Drink a Highball” is highlighted in coverage of Penn Football win and share of this year’s Ivy League title with Dartmouth and Harvard.
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Most Freshmen Apply to One College, Data Suggest
Two-thirds of college freshmen who applied for federal student loans or grants last year indicated that they were applying to only one institution, according to new data released by the U.S. Department of Education on Thursday. Sixty-eight percent of freshmen filling out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid during the 2014-15 academic year instructed the Education Department to send their information to only one college, the department said. That’s down from 80 percent in the 2008-09 school year.
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Why ‘Cool’ Is Still Cool
Jonah Berger of the Wharton School writes about the evolution of the word “cool.”
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Diversity Training Is in Demand. Does It Work?
One month before R. Bowen Loftin resigned as chancellor of the University of Missouri at Columbia, accused of not fighting racism on the flagship campus, he announced mandatory "diversity training" for faculty, staff, and students. Some hailed the move as overdue, but others were not impressed.
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Race Matters
Princeton University late Thursday ended a sit-in in the president's office by agreeing to consider changing the prominent use of Woodrow Wilson's name -- in ways that honor the man who was president of the United States and of Princeton. The action was one of many in higher education in which colleges are trying to respond to a growing student protest movement that in the last 48 hours has seen new sit-ins and rallies -- and also new incidents of backlash and threats. Here is some of what happened in the last 48 hours: