11/15
Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Campus Diversity, Often Seen as Key to Learning, Can Have an Educational Downside
Although diversity on college campuses is widely viewed as crucial for learning, negative experiences with students from other backgrounds may actually hurt undergraduates’ intellectual development, a new study suggests.
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Nutter, Booker Tapped to Help Minority Males
Shaun Harper of the Graduate School of Education has been tapped for membership on the advisory board of the My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, President Obama’s initiative to support young minority men.
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How to Solve the E.R. Problem
Ezekiel Emanuel of the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School pens an op-ed about the unnecessary use of emergency rooms.
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Justice Delayed
It took the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, on average, 1,469 days to complete campus sexual assault investigations in 2014, according to data released Tuesday by three Senate Democrats. The average time it took to resolve a complaint in 2009 was 379 days.
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Business Schools Are Fighting to Recruit Top Women
Business schools worry that not enough women see an M.B.A. in their future. B-school deans say the pipeline of young women may be running dry as fewer U.S. students overall appear to be interested in a graduate business degree.
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Another Use for Yik Yak on Campus? Cheating on Exams
With new technologies come new ways to cheat. Yik Yak, the anonymous, location-based app that has been a hotbed of cyberbullying on college campuses, is also the newest tool for students seeking to cheat on exams. J. Scott Christianson, an assistant teaching professor in the department of management at the University of Missouri at Columbia, has been monitoring Yik Yak recently to see what students are talking about.
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Take It Down
“[T]hey can employ not just metaphor, but caricature, which can be harsh… Humor, mockery, satire. People don’t like to be made fun of. They don’t like their views to be made fun of, they don’t like their religion to be made fun of.
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PSU President Refuses to Pay Trustees’ Legal Fees in Their Suits Against the University
Penn State President Eric Barron on Tuesday evening snubbed a demand from seven alumni-elected board members that the university pay their legal fees for actions they have filed against the university to obtain information they say they need to carry out their duties. And in a sharply-worded email to the trustees, Barron blasted them for even asking.
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Recovery in Nepal
Prashant Jha of the School of Arts & Sciences writes about recovery efforts following the earthquake in Nepal.
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Video: What Happens to Those Failed Kickstarter Fundraisers?
Ethan Mollick of the Wharton School shares his views on crowdfunding.