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Does Temple University Still Have a Bill Cosby Problem?
For decades, comedian Bill Cosby was the very public face of Temple University, an alumnus promoting the school and its mission. He wore his Temple t-shirt on his popular TV show, routinely spoke at the school’s commencement ceremonies and hosted a convocation class for freshmen: “Cosby 101.” This winter, after numerous women accused him of drugging and sexually assaulting them, Cosby resigned from Temple’s Board of Trustees. Cosby has never admitted sexually assaulting a woman, nor has he been criminally charged.
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Government Pension Cuts Tangled in Patchwork of Legal Rulings
David Skeel of the Law School is quoted.
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Grant Dispute Throws an Unwritten Rule of Academic Poaching Out the Window
A less-than-collegial battle between two major research universities in laid-back Southern California says much about the severity of the financial pressures mounting on American higher education. Among research universities a longstanding gentlemen’s agreement has held that a scientist who moves from one institution to another is allowed to carry any grant support along to his or her new home. Now, with universities counting every dollar, that bit of protocol may become a quaint courtesy of days gone by. The dispute broke out last month, when Paul S.
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More Than Their Mothers, Young Women Plan Career Pauses
Research examining the family goals of Wharton graduates from Stewart Friedman of the Wharton School is cited.
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Audio/Video: Today’s Newest Teachers Face Tough Job Odds, High Turnover
Richard Ingersoll of the Graduate School of Education and the School of Arts & Sciences joins a discussion on the teacher job market and retention.
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University of California System Set to Raise Minimum Wage to $15 an Hour
The University of California system will raise the minimum wage for its employees and contract workers to $15 an hour, university officials announced on Wednesday, the latest in a string of recent victories for labor leaders here who have fought to increase workers’ pay. The move comes after the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to raise the minimum wage in unincorporated areas of the county to $15 an hour; the City of Los Angeles approved the same increase in May.
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Video: Robots Playing Soccer at This Year’s RoboCup Is Like Watching Toddlers Learn to Kick
Doctoral candidate Steve McGill of the School of Engineering and Applied Science is highlighted about RoboCup 2015.
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When a State Decides That ‘Yes Means Yes,’ What Does That Mean for Colleges?
Nearly a year ago, Gov. Jerry Brown of California signed a law requiring the state’s colleges and universities to adopt an "affirmative consent" standard defining that "only yes means yes" — that students engaging in sexual activity must signal they are willingly doing so. Now other states are making — or at least weighing — similar moves. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York signed a law this month requiring affirmative consent on college campuses, and advocates of the practice say it is likely to spread elsewhere.
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7 Challenges Successful People Overcome
Martin Seligman of the School of Arts & Sciences is mentioned for studying how people view failures.
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Russian Crackdown?
Does a continuing crackdown on foreign influences in Russia threaten to interrupt the internationalization agendas of the country’s top universities? The recent removal of an American as vice rector of Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod after the host of a state television show questioned why a Russian university would have an American in such a senior position has been widely viewed as chilling, as has a remark by Russian President Vladimir V.