Penn in the News

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

Doctoral candidate Matthew Lee of the School of Nursing is featured for receiving a Fulbright Scholarship to study how to improve online gaming communities.

Yvonne Romero DaSilva of Admissions talks about Penn’s shift in its application requirements.

The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire is not a particularly wealthy school. So when the writing on the wall made it clear that the regional campus, which educates 10,700 students, would have about a quarter of its state funds cut this year, Eau Claire administrators had already planned a course of action to trim the fat: significant administrative reductions, preferably as far away from the academic enterprise as possible.

A University of Cincinnati police officer was indicted Wednesday on a murder charge in what a prosecutor called “a senseless, asinine shooting” of an unarmed man during a minor traffic stop. Officials say it was the first time such a charge had been leveled against an officer in the county. The Hamilton County prosecuting attorney, Joseph T. Deters, released a much anticipated video of the shooting of Samuel Dubose taken by the officer’s body camera that he described as crucial evidence that Mr.

Laura Perna of the Graduate School of Education comments on the price of college.

Peter Conti-Brown of the Wharton School pens an op-ed about repairing the Federal Reserve System.

What should be done about sexual assault in college? And what, if anything, should Congress do? The Senate Committee on Health, Education Labor and Pensions takes up those questions Wednesday morning in a hearing that suggests sexual assault will become part of the debate in revising the nation’s higher education law. The committee, chaired by Sen.

Jonathan Moreno of the Perelman School of Medicine and the School of Arts & Sciences blogs about the impact of bioethics on America.

The high-profile shooting of a man during a traffic stop by a University of Cincinnati officer this month raised a question: Just what is the role of campus security? Most universities now allow their campus officers to carry guns, according to Department of Justice statistics, and most campus security officers patrol areas both strictly within campus limits and those nearby.