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  • What Happened After One College Tried to Make Greek Life Go Coed
    Chronicle of Higher Education

    What Happened After One College Tried to Make Greek Life Go Coed

    Nearly three years ago, Trinity College did some soul-searching about Greek life on the campus after a spike in drug and alcohol problems and a drop down the national rankings. The small liberal-arts college in Connecticut announced a major change as part of a plan to improve campus social life: Its seven single-gender fraternities and sororities would have to become coeducational. By the fall of 2016 the groups would need to have virtually equal shares of male and female members.

    Jul 31, 2015

    A Chill for Chinese Exchanges?
    Inside Higher Ed

    A Chill for Chinese Exchanges?

    A draft law that would require foreign nongovernmental organizations to register their activities with police authorities in China has American universities worried about a chilling effect on educational exchanges of all types. The draft law defines foreign NGOs broadly and is sweeping in its scope, seemingly applying not only to universities that have physical locations in China but also to any institution that so much as sends a single student or professor there.

    Jul 31, 2015

    Should We Charge Patients for Medical Research?
    The New York Times

    Should We Charge Patients for Medical Research?

    Ezekiel Emanuel of the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School and Steven Joffe of the Perelman School of Medicine co-author an op-ed about the idea of patients being charged for medical research.

    Jul 31, 2015

    Critics Besiege Presidential Debate Commission
    Politico.com

    Critics Besiege Presidential Debate Commission

    The Annenberg Public Policy Center is mentioned for organizing a bipartisan group that critiques the Presidential Debate Commission.

    Jul 30, 2015