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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Meenakshi Bewtra of the Perelman School of Medicine and lead author of the study cited says, “We often think of surgery as being more ‘dangerous’ in patients who are older but this study shows that surgery is quite the opposite.”
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Families are spending more on college, but parents are less concerned about that investment paying off, according to the results of a new survey from Sallie Mae, the student lender. The study is based on phone interviews with 800 traditional-aged undergraduates and 800 parents of traditional-aged students. It is the eight installment of the survey. Results show that spending on college was up across the board this year, but that a 25 percent increase by high-income families was responsible for the bulk of the increase.
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Like the country in general, faculty members at American colleges have become more ethnically and racially diverse over the past two decades. Eighty-five percent of full-time and part-time faculty members at all colleges in 1993 were white; by 2013, the latest year for which national data are available, that figure had fallen to 72 percent. Even so, academe doesn’t yet mirror the U.S. population, which was 63 percent white in 2013. Diversifying the faculty remains a challenge particularly at liberal-arts colleges.
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Nancy Rothbard of the Wharton School joins a conversation about the significance of attitudes in the workplace.
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Jules Lipoff of the Perelman School of Medicine writes a letter to the editor about virtual doctor visits.
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Charles O’Brien of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on repeat DUI offenses.
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Ralph Rosen of the School of Arts & Sciences talks about his experience with social media platforms banning words.
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Graduating into a recession stunts the careers of the young men and women entering the labor market. But it turns out a lot of students don’t sit back and passively accept this outcome: Many students who see a recession during their early college years switch to majors with better job prospects. According to new research from Benjamin Keys at the University of Chicago, Brian Cadena at the University of Colorado Boulder and Erica Blom at Edgeworth Economics, the shifts can be dramatic.
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Peter Cappelli of the Wharton School is quoted about airlines having a “‘balkanized’ working environment.”
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These days, it’s widely accepted that colleges have some responsibility for their students’ financial lives. College affordability and student-loan debt are now mainstream political issues, peppering the speeches of the president and presidential hopefuls alike. While the job market for new degree-holders has shown signs of improvement, the path from graduation to financial independence is, for many, uphill and uncertain. Students have a lot at stake — especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds. Many colleges have taken those concerns to heart.