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Senate Plan Portends Budget Battles
A U.S. Senate subcommittee on Tuesday passed a spending bill for health, labor and education programs that would increase funds for biomedical research and boost the maximum Pell Grant -- but slash spending on workforce training and AmeriCorps and block the Obama administration from implementing regulations relating to gainful employment for vocational programs and its college rating system.
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Attitudes Toward Racism and Inequality Are Shifting
Camille Charles of the School of Arts & Sciences is quoted about changing attitudes towards racism and inequality.
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College Divestment Pledges Are Mostly Empty Gestures
Stanford, Oxford and Georgetown universities have won praise for promising to purge their endowments of direct investments in coal, embracing the fight against climate change. One detail gets lost in the celebration: the colleges have few, if any, such investments to sell in the first place. Almost three dozen colleges have announced fossil-fuel divestment pledges over the last three years, and their actions tend to have less substance than advertised.
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Universities Under Attack
An April attack on Kenya’s Garissa University College by Shabab militants that left 147 people dead. The disappearance -- and presumed killing -- of 43 students at Mexico’s Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers’ College of Ayotzinapa last fall. The September 2014 killing of Muhammad Shakil Auj, dean of Islamic studies at the University of Karachi in Pakistan and a liberal Muslim scholar who had reportedly been accused by fellow professors of blasphemy for a speech he gave abroad.
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The Connection Between Working Memory and Risky Sexual Behavior – Parents Should Pay Attention
Dan Romer of the Annenberg Public Policy Center says, “For adolescents who have weak ability to override strong impulses, improvements in working memory may provide a pathway to greater control over risky sexual behavior.”
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Audio: The Complicated History of the Confederate Flag
Carolyn Marvin of the Annenberg School for Communication talks about the evolution of the meaning of the Confederate flag in the wake of the murders at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston.
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Sweet Briar’s ‘No Nonsense’ New President Faces a Tall Task
Phillip C. Stone believes in the power of a good story. Storytelling was a key part of Mr. Stone’s fund-raising strategy at Bridgewater College, in Virginia, where he served as president for 16 years, according to Carol A. Scheppard, its vice president for academic affairs. He is also easily moved by other people’s stories, said Ms. Scheppard, especially ones about students who beat the odds. "He was very efficient about running the institution," she said, "but you couldn’t trust him with giving away money to students who came in with a hard-luck story."
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Ride-hailing Firm Uber Faces Big Challenges in China
Minyuan Zhao of the Wharton School comments on the competition of car services in China.
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A Pipeline From Community College to the Ivy League
Students from the Community College of Philadelphia are highlighted for their academic achievements and transferring to Penn. Dean Eric Furda of Admissions is quoted.
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Leniency Likely?
In May, Pennsylvania State University banned its chapter of Kappa Delta Rho -- the fraternity that maintained a private Facebook page that featured photographs of nude and partially nude unconscious women -- from campus for three years. The decision, which was made after an investigation into the Facebook page also revealed incidents of sexual harassment and hazing within the chapter, overturned an earlier ruling by the university’s Interfraternity Council.