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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Are Colleges Coddling Students of Just Leveling the Playing Field?
Do colleges coddle their students too much? That was the question I posed in my column last week. I suggested that the obsession colleges have with data-mining software to steer students toward specific majors and certain courses where they’re more likely to succeed is producing a generation of risk-averse graduates. But several readers reminded me that not every student is raised by helicopter parents helping them each step of the way to college.
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The C-Word: Why Compromise Shouldn’t Be a Dirty Word in Agriculture
President Amy Gutmann is cited for co-authoring The Spirit of Compromise.
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Video: Claymont Boy Prints Hand, Wins Arm Wrestling Match
Paulo Arratia of the School of Engineering and Applied Science is quoted about how 3-D printers are the “democratization of the making process.”
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Revive Perkins Loans
For nearly six decades, the Federal Perkins Loan Program provided needy students with financial aid that helped make going to college more accessible and affordable. On Sept. 30, that loan program expired. It expired primarily because Senator Lamar Alexander, a Republican from Tennessee who chairs the Senate education committee, objected to extending the program, preferring instead to focus on reforming the student financial aid system as a whole. I am not writing to critique the rules of the U.S.
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Philadelphia’s Maker Jawn Program
Yasmin Kafai of the Graduate School of Education advocates for the Maker Jawn program.
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Getting Real About What Teachers Need to Succeed
Andy Porter of the Graduate School of Education writes about the importance of asking teachers what they need in order to succeed in the classroom.
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A Sparkling Set of Ivories: The Dentist With a Royal Art Collection
Dean Denis Kinane of the School of Dental Medicine is mentioned about leading the celebration of the art left to the School by Thomas W. Evans.
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Tenure Is Disappearing. But It’s What Made American Universities the Best in the World.
“The single most important factor preventing change in higher education is tenure.” Wow. That was the sentiment expressed in 2010 by Mark C. Taylor, then chair of Columbia University’s department of religion, and every critic of higher education in the United States seemed to agree with him. Tenure, they charged, was the place where deadbeat faculty could go for a rest cure, protected from critical standards, working as little as they could — and generally sending a once world-renowned system to the backwater, behind the rising tide of Asia and Europe. Not quite.
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Encouraging Low-income Enrollment
Some of the most selective and well-known public universities could do a better job of enrolling and graduating low-income students. A new report from the Institute for Higher Education Policy examined those selective colleges that have low Pell Grant recipient enrollments to find the best methods for solving this controversial "undermatching" phenomenon. Addressing and studying the undermatching issue has been a priority of the Obama administration.
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Audio: What Happens When Police Become School Disciplinarians?
Shaun Harper of the Graduate School of Education joins a discussion about police and school discipline.