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Crossing the Pond
The most pressing challenge to undergraduate education in the United States is arguably its sharply rising cost. In a 2013 Bloomberg News article, Michelle Jamrisko and Ilan Kolet assert that tuition expenses have increased 538 percent since 1985, compared with a 286 percent jump in medical costs and a 121 percent gain in the Consumer Price Index. Jamrisko and Kolet further write that “the ballooning charges have generated swelling demand for educational loans while threatening to make college unaffordable for domestic and international students.
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Penn Sets the Pace for Free Course Offerings
Penn’s partnership with edX is featured.
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Boot Camp Bolsters Skills of MSI Faculty
Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education is quoted about the work of Penn’s Center for Minority Serving Institutions through initiatives like ELEVATE (Enriching Visibility, & Training Educators).
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Sororities Say They, Too, Have a Key Role to Play in Preventing Sexual Assault
The intense scrutiny surrounding sexual assaults on campuses has helped lengthen the list of noes that some fraternities must observe. No more open parties. No kegs, just cans. No hard liquor. No pledging. But at the University of Missouri’s flagship campus, in Columbia, members of the Greek community might soon have to contend with a more drastic change: no women in fraternity houses. At least, not when students are most likely to be partying.
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Mississippi Valley Archaeological Site Reveals Transition From Hunter-gatherer to Farming Cultures of Ancient Native Americans
Meg Kassabaum of the School of Arts & Sciences and the Museum is featured as the project director for the Smith Creek Archeological Project.
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U. of Texas Campus Seeks to Retain Students Through Data and Personal Coaching
It’s difficult to retain students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields. Of the students who declared STEM majors at some point from 2003 to 2009, nearly half had switched out of the sciences by 2009. But the newly formed University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley hopes to keep more students in those and related fields — and on track to graduate on time — by mixing big-data and personalized approaches.
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Nina Simone’s Time Is Now, Again
Salamishah Tillet of the School of Arts & Sciences writes about the legacy of singer Nina Simone.
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Arizona’s Online Holdout
The University of Arizona, the last holdout in a state investing heavily in distance education for undergraduates, will this fall join the state’s other public universities in offering online bachelor’s degrees, as UA Online opens its virtual doors. UA's in-state competitors -- Arizona State and Northern Arizona University -- have already established themselves in that market.
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Another Challenge on Campus Sexual Assault: Getting Minority Students to Report It
Reporting a campus sexual assault can be difficult, even traumatic, for any student. But for minority students who have been assaulted, speaking up can be an especially daunting prospect. Many of those students may simply not know how to go about reporting an assault. Many more may not feel that the conversations about sexual assault that have cascaded across campuses over the last year even apply to them, experts say. Increasingly, advocates for sexual-assault victims wonder: Are colleges doing enough to bring those minority students into the fold?
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Nip. Tuck. Or Else.
David Sarwer of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted on plastic surgery trends.