Penn in the News

In June, Mount St. Mary's University received reaffirmation of its accreditation, with strong reviews, from the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. But after a month of controversy at the Maryland institution, Middle States may be having second thoughts.

Dean Eric Furda of Admissions writes bout his experience attending Penn’s Posse-Plus Retreat.

MaryFrance McCourt is featured as the new vice president for finance and treasurer of the University.

In the world of money management, bigger is often considered better. College and university endowments greater than $1 billion, for example, have long outperformed their smaller rivals. That may be changing.

Dean John Jackson of the School of Social Policy & Practice shares his commentary on how a master of social work degree is becoming the 21^st century’s law degree.

David Asch of the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School is quoted about studying shift lengths of internal medicine residents.

Richard Berk and Geoffrey Barnes of the School of Arts & Sciences and Susan Sorenson of the School of Social Policy & Practice are featured for their arraignment/machine-learning research.

On her busier weeks, when she’s out in the field, Carly Ebben is sure she works more than 40 hours. But it varies. When she’s at the University of California at Berkeley, she works less. When she’s out conducting research, she works more. She isn’t sure how much more. Like most postdoctoral researchers, Ebben is a salaried employee, and she’s never had to track her hours. She isn’t paid for overtime. Had she been making less money, things would be different.

Jonathan Moreno of the Perelman School of Medicine and the School of Arts & Sciences is quoted about the therapeutic gaming field.

The University of Missouri fired an assistant professor on Thursday who had been suspended after run-ins with student journalists during protests last year, including a videotaped confrontation in which she called