Penn in the News

After an outcry from offended students at Williams College, a student group disinvited a speaker who writes that feminism has failed — and then reinvited her Friday.

The Graduate School of Education’s Marybeth Gasman comments on the tension created when a university’s board members are at odds.

Barbara Dallap Schaer, Dean Richardson, and JoAnn Slack of the School of Veterinary Medicine comment on their pioneering robotics to treat a moving horse.

Annie McKee of the Graduate School of Education is the author of this article on the realities of becoming a manager.

John Hogenesch of the Perelman School of Medicine talks about researching clock genes in mammals.

In the middle of a major capital campaign that could reach $900 million, Drexel University recently gave its entrepreneurial president, John A. Fry, a second five-year contract, running to August 2020. The board of trustees unanimously approved the pact Sept. 30, said trustees chairman Richard Greenawalt. Fry received a boost in pay for good performance, Greenawalt said, but declined to provide the amount. Drexel, like most private colleges, does not release pay until it becomes public on tax forms. In 2013-14, Fry received $1.5 million in total compensation.

The nation’s medical schools chalked up another record-setting year of applications and enrollment, while making strides to attract a more-diverse applicant pool, according to figures released on Thursday by the Association of American Medical Colleges.

Gary Clinton of the Law School discusses the hanging of a plaque to honor a pioneering student from the 1920s.

The H-1B guest worker visa program has been coming under scrutiny lately. The program is important to colleges both in terms of their ability to hire postdocs and other researchers from abroad and, more indirectly, in providing a pathway for the international students they recruit to work in the U.S. after graduation. Many in higher education see the existence of such pathways as important in making the U.S. an attractive destination for international students, especially since some countries that compete with the U.S.

Four former University at Albany-SUNY students were charged with hazing this week in connection with an alcohol-related death stemming from a fraternity initiation ritual, the Albany Police Department said on Thursday.