11/15
Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Sweet Briar Says Faculty Lawsuit Is Attempt By Professors to Get a ‘Financial Windfall’
The Sweet Briar College administration responded to a faculty lawsuit Monday by saying professors who had sued to stop the college from closing were looking for personal financial gain.
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In the Face of Colossal Cuts
There’s a class of budget reductions that are harmful -- even painful because of staff and program cuts -- and yet still manageable. Then there are financial cuts so dramatic -- and perhaps unrealistic -- that it’s hard to picture what the remaining institution would look like when the dust settled. That second version is hanging over Louisiana’s 28 public colleges and universities right now.
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Why It Pays to Make Your Boss Your BFF
Nancy Rothbard of the Wharton School is quoted about connecting with your boss on social media networks such as Facebook.
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Are College Admissions applications Outdated and Inefficient?
Most high-school seniors planning to enroll in college this fall already have made up their minds about where they are going. But for many others, this is the final week to make a choice: May 1 is Decision Day, when deposits are due to secure a spot in the next freshman class. Picking a college is an emotional decision, and even after months or even years of courting each other, students and colleges many times make a bad match.
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Rebirth of the Research University
In California, some of us spend a good deal of time feeling nostalgia for days past (specifically, 1960) when the California Master Plan for Higher Education was codified, approved, and financed. In the world of higher education, this visionary plan was the greatest organizational idea for public higher education in the 20th century.
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How Paying Attention to Your WHOLE Life Can Help You at Work
The Wharton School’s Stewart Friedman is interviewed about integrating work, family, community and self.
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Burdened With Debt, Law School Graduates Struggle in Job Market
Jonathan Wang has not practiced law since he graduated from Columbia Law School in 2010, but he did not plan it that way. When he entered law school, the economy was flourishing, and he had every reason to think that with a prestigious degree he was headed for a secure well-paying career. He convinced his parents, who work in Silicon Valley, that he had a plan.
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Video: Understanding America’s Legacy of Slavery
Salamishah Tillet and Thomas Sugrue of the School of Arts & Sciences join a conversation about actor Ben Affleck’s ancestors and the legacy of slavery.
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Diverse Campuses, but Still Few Black Students
Shaun Harper of the Graduate School of Education suggests that poor recruitment and lack of encouragement from high school guidance counselors contributes to the lack of black students at colleges.
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Seeking Tests for a Contested Brain Disease
Douglas Smith of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on chronic traumatic encephalopathy.