Penn in the News

Román de la Campa of the School of Arts & Sciences shares his thoughts on the 1966 Cuban Adjustment Act.

Penn’s Global Go To Think Tank Index is cited.

Jonathan Moreno of the Perelman School of Medicine and the School of Arts & Sciences critiques doctors who become politicians.

About three minutes into her opening speech at a symposium here on Thursday about the value of the liberal arts, Sen. Susan Collins addressed an underlying theme of the gathering with a blunt statement: "The importance of the liberal arts to a free and democratic society was known to antiquity," said Ms. Collins, a Republican from Maine. "Why is it that we need to keep reminding ourselves — and, more to the point, the public — of its value?"

Richard Ingersoll of the Graduate School of Education and the School of Arts & Sciences says, “Minority educators have distinctly higher quit rates – turnover rates – than do nonwhite teachers.”

Peter Cappelli of the Wharton School writes about how to make sense of the newly released federal college data.

At a time when the world desperately needs more expansive thinkers than ever before (and when higher education in the U.S. has never been more expensive), too many schools are churning out narrow specialists ill-equipped to deal with the vast complexity of today’s uber-global, rapidly changing reality.