Big Names Backing 2016 Candidates; Will It Help? Fox Business Big Names Backing 2016 Candidates; Will It Help? Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center comments on the impact of presidential candidate endorsements on voters.
Patient Groups Funded by Drugmakers Are Largely Mum on High Drug Prices USA Today Patient Groups Funded by Drugmakers Are Largely Mum on High Drug Prices Ezekiel Emanuel of the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School shares his thoughts about pharmaceutical companies providing funding for patient groups while stifling the groups’ voice in the debate over increasing drug prices.
Should Colleges Measure Well-Being? Inside Higher Ed Should Colleges Measure Well-Being? When students go through college, it isn’t enough for them to excel academically; they should flourish. That idea was the focus of a session at the annual meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities. The session was organized by Bringing Theory to Practice, an independent nonprofit group that works with AAC&U. The session focused on the role of student well-being in higher education: What can colleges do to promote their students’ well-being? Why is student well-being an outcome that colleges should pay attention to in the first place?
New Research Digs Into Mysterious Origins of Coal The Washington Post New Research Digs Into Mysterious Origins of Coal Hermann Pferfferkorn of the School of Arts & Sciences says, “But, most of the time, there isn’t very much — the coal is usually only found in certain areas, and the amounts that do exist do not compare to the huge quantities formed in the Carboniferous and Cenozoic.”
Why a $550 Incentive to Lose Weight Failed CNN Why a $550 Incentive to Lose Weight Failed Mitesh Patel of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on why offering monetary incentives to workers to lose weight was unsuccessful.
Cheap Oil 101: U.S. May Have Finally Moved Beyond '70s Turmoil San Francisco Chronicle Cheap Oil 101: U.S. May Have Finally Moved Beyond '70s Turmoil Ruben Lobel of the Wharton School is quoted about crude oil, conversations about the U.S. carbon footprint and motives behind purchasing an electric car.
Pell Grant Expansion A Goal of Obama Administration Associated Press Pell Grant Expansion A Goal of Obama Administration The Obama administration wants to expand the federal Pell grant program to help more students graduate from college — by providing them with money to attend classes year-round and reward them for taking more credits. Two new proposals, announced Tuesday by the Education Department, would expand the $29 billion program by $2 billion in the new fiscal year. They’ll be part of President Barack Obama’s budget proposal next month.
Wanted: High-character Students Chronicle of Higher Education Wanted: High-character Students Each year colleges invite applicants to sing their own praises, by listing achievements and proclaiming passions. Now some admissions offices are emphasizing students’ concern for others and the world beyond their test-prep manuals. For the last few months, some admissions leaders have quietly discussed strategies for encouraging good citizenship, not just résumé-polishing, among high-school students.
The Strange Life of Q-tips, the Most Bizarre Thing People Buy The Washington Post The Strange Life of Q-tips, the Most Bizarre Thing People Buy Barbara Kahn of the Wharton School comments on the difficulty in changing how consumers perceive Q-tips due to their history brand.
Should College Be Free? The New York Times Should College Be Free? Politicians on the right and left are talking about college affordability. Democratic presidential candidates are divided over how much should be done to ease the cost of higher education. Tennessee is offering free community college tuition to all its high school graduates and a slate of candidates for the Board of Overseers at Harvard University wants to end undergraduate tuition there. To level the playing field, should tuition at public colleges be ended?