Penn in the News

Professors have good reason to be wary of adaptive learning software, which automates parts of the teaching process. Adaptive courses could mean a different role for faculty members, some fear, or no role at all. However, some of these new “personalized” learning tools are designed to be faculty friendly, and to put the technology in the hands of professors.

Employers say that international experience matters in hiring decisions. Chief executives fret that today’s graduates lack the skills to succeed in a global economy. Even the U.S. secretary of education, Arne Duncan, in recorded remarks to the annual conference here this week of Nafsa: Association of International Educators, called global education a must-have. "In the 21st century," Mr.

Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center talks about including viable candidates from all political parties in presidential debates.

Americus Reed II of the Wharton School is cited for co-authoring a study on effects of diet drug advertisements on people seeking to lose weight.

A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit that challenged the U.S. Department of Education’s rewritten “gainful employment” rule, handing a victory to the Obama administration in its longstanding regulatory battle with for-profit colleges. U.S.

Ask any U.S. recruiter: Competition for science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) talent is getting fierce. Benefiting big from that trend are foreign-born college graduates, who are seeing fast wage gains as they help American employers fill those hot jobs. Among full-time wage and salary workers in the U.S.

Katharyn Hanson of the Museum is quoted about a bill presented to the United States House of Representatives that would ban importing Syrian antiquities to the U.S.

Jacob Gutsche of the Perelman School of Medicine notes that the information revealed by a study on patients who receive mechanical ventilation is helpful but more data is needed.

Rural high school students in Oregon were less likely to enroll and persist in college, according to a new study from REL Northwest, a regional research group that receives funding from the U.S. Department of Education. The study tracked students in Oregon who began high school between 2005 and 2007. It found that 55 percent of rural students enrolled in college, compared to 63 percent of nonrural students.

Recent headlines about brutal hazings, drinking-related deaths, and sexual assaults have tarnished the image of fraternities but have barely dented their coffers. Membership in the 74 national and international fraternities that belong to the North-American Interfraternity Conference continues to grow at a steady clip, with 46 percent more students paying dues in 2013-14 than in 2005-6.