11/15
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8 Courses a Year for Every Professor? N.C. Lawmakers Ponder the Possibility
A bill introduced late last month in the North Carolina General Assembly has set faculties across the state abuzz with a bold suggestion: Require all professors in the University of North Carolina system to teach at least eight courses each academic year. Senate Bill 593 — titled "Improve Professor Quality/UNC System" — would reduce the salary of any professor who failed to hit that annual mark. Sen.
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Shakespeare – Not to Be – As a Required Course at Top Colleges
Rebecca Bushnell and Michael Gamer of the School of Arts & Sciences comment on Shakespeare’s literature being offered in courses at Penn.
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Carnegie Mellon Students Invent Apps to Head Off Sexual Assaults
A freshman girl stumbles glassy-eyed at a crowded party, and a guy steps in, leading her upstairs to his room. Maybe a couple of people notice, and wonder: “Shouldn’t her friends, whoever they are, walk her home?” then turn back to their conversation. Soon, some students at Carnegie Mellon hope, bystanders will have an easy, anonymous way to ask her friends if everything is okay, and head off some bad situations.
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Audio: For Breast Cancer Research, Apple Delivers Strength in Numbers Approach
Kathryn Schmitz of the Perelman School of Medicine talks about helping create an app called Share The Journey, one of the first of its kind that measures womens’ experiences after breast cancer.
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Iowa Legislator Wants to Give Students the Chance to Fire Underwhelming Faculty
A bill circulating in the Iowa State Senate offers a novel (and cutthroat) way to hold professors accountable: putting their fates into students’ hands, Survivor-style. Every year the professor most disliked by students would be voted off the campus. The bill, introduced by Sen.
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Penn Physicists Honored for Work That Could Take Heat Out of Computing
Charles Kane and Eugene Mele of the School of Arts & Sciences are highlighted for their work with topological insulators.
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College Counsel for the Poor
Erin Kelley grew up poor with parents who never went to college, but she is about to do something only 11% of Americans like her do: earn a degree. The Boston College senior is the latest success story of Bottom Line, which counsels disadvantaged youth on how to get into college—and graduate. About 80% of the nonprofit’s clients earn a degree.
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Promising Full College Credit, Arizona State University Offers Online Freshman Program
Arizona State University, one of the nation’s largest universities, is joining with edX, a nonprofit online venture founded by M.I.T. and Harvard, to offer an online freshman year that will be available worldwide with no admissions process and full university credit.
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Audio: Congress Pushes for Cybersecurity Overhaul
Matt Blaze of the School of Engineering and Applied Science talks about encouraging better security practices rather than focusing on data sharing.
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St. Joe’s Names First Lay President
A Philadelphia native and mathematician was named president of St. Joseph’s University on Wednesday, the first lay leader in the Jesuit school’s 164-year history. And at 40, Mark C. Reed also is the youngest president, at least since St. Joe’s moved to its City Line Avenue location in 1927, according to the college.