11/5
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Report: 3 Penn State Execs Paid $4.1 Million Last Year
Two presidents and a former president at Pennsylvania State University received a collective $4.1 million in compensation in 2013-14, a report by the Chronicle of Higher Education shows. They include Rodney A. Erickson, who steered Pennsylvania's flagship university in the aftermath of the Jerry Sandusky child sex-abuse scandal and stepped down in May 2014; Eric Barron, who replaced Erickson; and former president Graham B. Spanier, who was forced out as president after the Sandusky scandal broke in November 2011 but who remains on the payroll as a tenured faculty member.
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Cybersecurity Insurance Basics for Healthcare Organizations
Ross Koppel of the School of Arts & Sciences and the Perelman School of Medicine comments on risk management and health-care data.
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Audio: CalPERS’ Quest to Pay Lower Money Management Fees
Kent Smetters of the Wharton School talks about the California Public Employees’ Retirement System.
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Audio: Online Health Searches Aren’t Always Confidential
Doctoral candidate Timothy Libert of the Annenberg School for Communication is interviewed about what happens with health information that people search online.
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Reducing Hazardous Noise Levels Can Save Your Heart
Mathias Basner of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on a study that revealed how reducing daily noise levels would reduce the number of people with hypertension and coronary heart disease.
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SAT Scores in Question After Misprint in Instruction Booklet
Some students taking the SAT college-entrance exam Saturday had extra time to complete a section of the test because of a misprint in an instruction guide, at least briefly calling into question the validity of scores for nearly half a million test-takers. Shortly before noon EDT on Saturday, the Educational Testing Service, which administers the SAT on behalf of the College Board, notified the test maker that there was a printing error in the test booklets distributed to students in the U.S., according to a statement posted on the College Board website Sunday evening.
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New Texas Law Will Allow Concealed Weapons on Campuses. Now What?
Now that Texas legislators have passed a law allowing concealed weapons to be carried at colleges throughout the state, campus leaders, professors, students, and safety officials will turn to debating what areas of their campuses can be declared gun-free, and how much of each campus can be a designated a gun-free zone. Administrators will have over a year to devise new policies to comply with the legislation, which the state’s Republican governor, Greg Abbott, has said he will sign. Private colleges and universities will have the option of opting out of the requirement.
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When Pain Persists After Breast Cancer Surgery
Rosemary Polomano of the School of Nursing talks about women who are not informed of the risks or ways to reduce risks of pain after a mastectomy.
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Video: Health Insurers Ask Pennsylvania Regulators for Big Rate Increases
Robert Town of the Wharton School is quoted about health-care costs in Pennsylvania.
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Will Picking the ‘Right’ College Major Get You a Good Job?
Peter Cappelli of the Wharton School is cited for his book Will College Pay Off?