Penn in the News

An HBCU Fights to Survive

 Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education comments on the financial issues plaguing Cheney University.

The Number of Black Teachers Has Dropped in Nine U.S. Cities

 Richard Ingersoll of the Graduate School of Education and the School of Arts & Sciences is quoted about teacher retention.

Jeremy Siegel: Fed Rate Hike Could Reduce Uncertainty, Lift Stocks

 Jeremy Siegel of the Wharton School talks about the effects of rate-hike uncertainty on the stock market.

Fatal Shooting of Professor at Mississippi College Might Be Linked to Earlier Homicide

 Mississippi authorities said after midnight Monday that they’d ended their search for a Delta State University professor suspected of killing his live-in girlfriend in their gulf coast home, and then allegedly fatally shooting a fellow professor on the campus five hours away, which had prompted a lengthy lockdown of the small school on Monday. The suspect, Shannon S. Lamb, 45, a Delta State professor of geography and social sciences, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound., according to the Associated Press.

Could Changing the Brain Help Smokers Quit?

 Caryn Lerman of the Perelman School of Medicine is featured for developing a transcranial direct brain stimulation test.

Why College Rankings Are Unfair

 After heavy lobbying from some of the nation’s most elite institutions of higher education, the President has just abandoned his effort to rank the nation’s 7,000 colleges and universities. So, with college application season almost upon us, where should aspiring college students and their parents look for advice? In my view, not U.S. News and World Report’s annual college guide (out last week). 

5 From Baruch College Face Murder Charges in 2013 Fraternity Hazing

 Five fraternity members from Baruch College in Manhattan will face murder charges in Pennsylvania for their involvement in the death of a freshman who was hazed during a rural retreat in 2013, officials said on Monday. A grand jury in Monroe County, Pa., recently recommended that five people face third-degree murder charges and that a total of 37 would face a range of criminal charges, including assault, hindering apprehension and hazing in Chun Hsien Deng’s death.

It’s About to Get Easier for Students to Figure Out Which Colleges They Can Afford

This is Your Brain. This is Your Brain as a Weapon.

Jonathan Moreno of the Perelman School of Medicine and the School of Arts & Sciences is quoted about neural technologies and suggests that the National Institutes of Health establish a permanent neuroethics research program.

At Colleges, Graduation Initiatives Save Time and Money

 Many students and parents worried about racking up loans while paying for four years of college may not realize a stark fact: Four-year degrees often take five or six years. Statistics reported by colleges and universities, compiled by the federal Department of Education, show around 40 percent of students in Pennsylvania and New Jersey graduate in four years from the school where they began. A majority of students nationwide take more than four years to finish.