11/15
Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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How Joint Appointments Stall the Careers of Ethnic-Studies Professors
In 2004, Jeannette Jones landed a tenure-track job at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln — a joint appointment in the Institute for Ethnic Studies and the history department. She had her career all planned out: Teach. Write. Publish. Get tenure. Repeat until she became a full professor. But with tenure comes an increased service burden, and Jones’s dual appointment has left her with two departments to serve.
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Conservative Think Tank Puts Pressure on North Carolina’s Colleges
The John William Pope Foundation has been generous to the University of North Carolina. In 2011, for example, the foundation gave $3 million to help renovate the football stadium on the Chapel Hill campus — enough money to put Pope’s name on the academic-support center for athletes.
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Va. Attorney General Offers to Help Sweet Briar Opponents Reach a Compromise
Within hours of the unexpected announcement last month that Sweet Briar College would close forever this summer, people began fighting the board’s decision. By this week, those efforts had led to three lawsuits simultaneously challenging the closure, one being appealed to the Virginia Supreme Court.
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St. Joe’s Suspends Softball Team Play Amid Hazing Investigation
St. Joseph’s University has suspended play for its women’s varsity softball team for the rest of the season following an internal investigation into hazing allegations. The team has three games remaining in the season. It’s unclear whether the team would have made post-season play.
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Suits From the Accused
He described the night as a consensual, Ecstasy-fueled threesome. She described it as a sexual assault. Reed College agreed with the female student’s version of the events, in which she said she was coerced into having the encounter, and kicked the male student off campus.
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Audio: Health Officials Recommend Lower Fluoride Levels for Drinking Water
Joan Gluch of the School of Dental Medicine is quoted about fluoride levels in tap water.
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On a Brother’s Suicide: ‘I wish I had never told him to go to counseling’
I do not blame William and Mary for my brother’s suicide in April 2010. This decision was his and his alone and I will never know whether the way William and Mary treated him in the weeks leading up to his tragic decision would have made a difference in the outcome.
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Leveling the Field
McMaster University is giving full-time faculty members a sizable raise this summer, with one qualification: they’re all women. The Canadian university is turning talk about its gender pay gap into action, tacking $3,515 (about $2,900 U.S.) onto the salaries of its female professors across ranks.
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You Are Wrong
Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education writes about how different the experiences are for African-Americans and whites when encountering the police.
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University, Research Center Team Up to Take on Hepatitis B
The College of Liberal and Professional Studies in the School of Arts & Sciences is highlighted for partnering with the Baruch S. Blumberg Institute to allow graduate students to work in the Institute’s laboratories to develop treatments for hepatitis B and liver cancer.