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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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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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How The U.S. Can Capture the $170B Opportunity In International Higher Education
The international opportunity is not one U.S. colleges and universities can afford to overlook.
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Race Out, Creativity In for Achieving Diversity Goals
With the use of race in college admissions banned in a number of states and facing an uncertain future in the U.S. Supreme Court, institutions of higher learning must become more strategic about how they achieve racial and economic diversity on campus.
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Here’s How Hillary Clinton’s Profit Sharing Plan Could Actually Make Everyone Richer
Peter Cappelli of the Wharton School writes about Hillary Clinton’s profit sharing proposal.
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Teachers May Be Staying in the Classroom Longer Than Expected, Says Study
Richard Ingersoll of the Graduate School of Education and the School of Arts & Sciences is cited for studying teacher retention.
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Colleges Seek Diversity, but ‘Admissions Calculus’ Hasn’t Changed
Few selective colleges have changed their admissions practices since the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin two years ago, according to a report released on Tuesday by the American Council on Education. Yet many institutions, it found, have since embraced various strategies for increasing racial and socioeconomic diversity in their student body.
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The Dad Bod, Brought to You by Babies
Tom Wadden of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on how the weight of fathers is not on physicians’ radar when monitoring the weight of an expectant and/or new mother.
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Debt Protests Target Aid Officers
The beer-soaked streets leading to Jackson Square in this city’s historic French Quarter bustled on Monday evening with characteristic revelry – and a short-lived, if chaotic, debate over student loan debt. “They’re coming,” a face-painted man in a full-body alligator costume yelled from his bicycle. “They’re two blocks away.” With that warning, several dozen student activists, staged strategically at a corner bar, finished their drinks, gathered their protest signs, and geared up for action. The target?
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7 Common Mistakes About Open Online Education
Here are my top 7 mistakes that pundits and critics make when they talk about open online education: Mistake #1: "Open Online Courses Are a Substitute for Traditional Courses" Higher order learning is an activity that cannot be scaled. Foundational knowledge may be appropriate for a MOOC (or a textbook, or even a really well-designed educational video game), but advanced learning works best with an educator.
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A Liberal-Arts College Investors to Diversity Its Faculty
Like the country in general, faculty members at American colleges have become more ethnically and racially diverse over the past two decades. Eighty-five percent of full-time and part-time faculty members at all colleges in 1993 were white; by 2013, the latest year for which national data are available, that figure had fallen to 72 percent. Even so, academe doesn’t yet mirror the U.S. population, which was 63 percent white in 2013. Diversifying the faculty remains a challenge particularly at liberal-arts colleges.