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Health Care Is a New Flash Point for Graduate Students
After receiving basic health insurance while working for a small consulting company, Kevin J. Reuning, a would-be graduate student, was pleased to learn about Pennsylvania State University’s generous plan. During a recruitment event, a Penn State doctoral student told him that her out-of-pocket costs for having a baby had been $75 total. But now, two years after starting his Ph.D. program in political science, his deductible has more than tripled, to $250, premiums have increased, and coverage has been reduced. Mr.
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Campus Cops’ Contested Role
Tell Sgt. Dustin Young he’s not a real cop. He has broken up drunken brawls, pulled a four-foot snake out of a building, and investigated countless cases of sexual assault. A few years ago, he saw a young man walking toward tracks and an oncoming train. Sergeant Young raced up, grabbed the hood of his sweatshirt, and yanked him back just before the train roared by. It came so close that it cut the man’s ear and tore off his shoe. For 14 years, Sergeant Young has been a policeman here on Miami University’s main campus of 20,000. He has saved lives and seen some lost.
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Executive Deception: Four Fallacies About Divestment, and One Big Mistake
It pains this old logic professor to read university officials’ arguments against divesting their institutions of investments in fossil fuels, not because their refusal to divest is wrong-headed, although I believe it is, but because their logic is so awful. A sample of Ivy League universities’ antidivestment statements offers a primer in the fallacies that students are warned against in Logic 101.
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Audio: New Brain Scan Spots Hard-to-see Epilepsy Lesions, Penn Study Finds
Kate Davis and Ravinder Reddy of the Perelman School of Medicine are quoted about a new imaging technique in development to treat epilepsy patients.
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Dilemmas From Day 1
When transgender students fill out college applications, they often run into trouble right out of the box — or, rather, in the box that students typically must check to indicate their biological gender. The gender identities of some people may not conform to a binary of biological male or female, much less align with what’s listed on their birth certificates. Colleges also expect potential students to enroll under the legal name that matches their government-issued ID and school records, not the name they may have chosen to represent their gender identity.
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Former Stanford Dean Explains Why Helicopter Parenting Is Ruining a Generation of Children
Julie Lythcott-Haims noticed a disturbing trend during her decade as a dean of freshmen at Stanford University. Incoming students were brilliant and accomplished and virtually flawless, on paper. But with each year, more of them seemed incapable of taking care of themselves. At the same time, parents were becoming more and more involved in their children’s lives. They talked to their children multiple times a day and swooped in to personally intervene whenever something difficult happened.
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Canvassing Campus
The dismal 21.5 percent youth turnout during the 2014 midterm elections had many pundits crowing about apathetic millennials, but presidential elections are a different story for young voters and college students, particularly in the age of Obama. Exit polls put the under-30 cohort of the electorate in 2012 at almost one in five, or 19 percent, which is one point above the rate in 2008 when young people played a decisive role in electing President Obama. For that election college students, who make up more than a third of voters under 24, turned out in droves.
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Former Stanford Dean Explains Why Helicopter Parenting Is Ruining a Generation of Children
Julie Lythcott-Haims noticed a disturbing trend during her decade as a dean of freshmen at Stanford University. Incoming students were brilliant and accomplished and virtually flawless, on paper. But with each year, more of them seemed incapable of taking care of themselves. At the same time, parents were becoming more and more involved in their children’s lives. They talked to their children multiple times a day and swooped in to personally intervene whenever something difficult happened.
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What a Margaret Spellings Presidency Might Mean for North Carolina
When word got out that the University of North Carolina system’s Board of Governors was holding an emergency session on Friday to meet with one finalist for the system’s presidency — and that the finalist was Margaret Spellings, a former secretary of education under President George W. Bush — it quickly became the topic of the day in higher-education circles. The news was the latest chapter in a series of highly divisive and politically charged episodes that began in January, when Thomas W. Ross, the system’s president, was pushed out by a Republican-led board.
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Closing the Deal After a Lost Job
G. Richard Shell of the Wharton School suggests ways to deal with unexpected developments during the interview process.