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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Why it Doesn’t Take a Nonprofit Career to Make a Difference at Work
Adam Grant of the Wharton School is cited for his paper, “Leading with Meaning: Beneficiary Contact, Prosocial Impact and the Performance Effects of Transformational Leadership.”
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Slow U.S. Tuition Growth Is ‘New Normal’ For Higher ed – Moody’s
U.S. universities and colleges should expect to see sluggish tuition growth next year, according to a report released Thursday by Moody's Investors Service. Higher education institutions suffered the weakest tuition growth in the history of Moody's survey last year. Such sluggishness "appears to be the 'new normal,'" reported Moody's, which is predicting another year of tuition revenue growth near levels of inflation, approximately 2 percent. That is a significant departure from the booming years of 2005 to 2013, when schools saw net tuition grow by more than 5 percent annually.
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When Choosing a College, How Should Students Gauge the Payoff?
When Dana Lambert counsels students who plan to major in theater, they usually ask: Will I be able to support myself after college? Yes, it can be done, she tells them — though maybe not at your parents’ standard of living. But with many other families, says Ms. Lambert, a school counselor at West Milford Township High School, in New Jersey, that question never comes up. Should it? The federal government sure seems to think so.
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At Penn, Battling Little-understood Disease as Researcher and Patient
David Fajgenbaum of the Perelman School of Medicine is featured as a patient and researcher of Castleman disease.
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A Guide to Talking With Children About Paris Attacks
Steven Berkowitz of the Perelman School of Medicine offers his advice on how to discuss the violence in Paris with children.
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Black Colleges and the Feeling of Home
Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education writes about the college experience for African-American students at HBCUs.
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5 Ways That Campus MOOC Initiatives Impact Local Residential Learning
Are you part a MOOC at your school? Have you taught, developed, TA’d, facilitated, designed, filmed, edited, assessed or communicated about an open online course at your college or university? The most vocal opinions on MOOCs seem to belong to those who have never worked on a MOOC. Let’s give the practitioners a chance to talk about their experiences. Here are 5 ways that I have observed how creating and teaching MOOCs can impact residential teaching and learning:
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Mao’s MOOC Rehabilitation
EdX, provider of massive open online courses, hosts an assortment of offerings on Chinese history. There's The Study of Folklore from Peking University, a look at international politics from Seoul National University and a five-part series on everything from aristocratic culture to neo-Confucianism from Harvard University.
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Government to Expand Program to Forgive Student Loan Debt
The Department of Education announced Tuesday that it would expand its program to forgive federal student loan debt to thousands more students who attended programs of Corinthian Colleges, once one of the nation’s largest for-profit education companies. Earlier this year, the department said that tens of thousands of students who had attended Heald College, Corinthian campuses mostly in California, were eligible for immediate processing of requests for debt relief.
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Does Violence Lurk in Psychopath’s Brains?
Adrian Raine of the School of Arts & Sciences and the Perelman School of Medicine is featured for studying neurocriminology.