11/15
Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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The Push for Net Neutrality Arose From Lack of Choice
Kevin Werbach of the Wharton School is quoted about the Federal Communications Commission and net neutrality.
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The Gentrification Effect
Excerpts from the School of Arts & Sciences’ Thomas Sugrue’s essay titled “Diversity, Toleration and Space in Metropolitan America” are included.
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An Important Day for the Internet
Kevin Werbach of the Wharton School discusses the Federal Communications Commission and new Internet rules.
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Fed Up With Low Pay and Job Instability, Some Adjunct Professors Walk Out
It didn’t bring higher education to its knees. But an effort to raise awareness about the disparity in conditions for full- and part-time faculty, “National Adjunct Walkout Day,” did make its point Wednesday — more often by word of mouth than by people actually refusing to teach a class. Many colleges rely on part-time, temporary professors to lead classes.
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Audio: How Do You Market to Millennials?
Americus Reed of the Wharton School talks about how to market towards the millennial generation.
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New Screening Tests for Hard-to-spot Breast Cancers
Emily Conant of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted about testing for breast cancer and the legislation in some states that requires doctors to inform women when they have dense tissue.
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Dangers and Allure of Molly
Wesleyan University is urging students to come forward with information about who is selling the party drug known as Molly on campus after nearly a dozen students were hospitalized this weekend after using the drug
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Court of Appeals to Hear Case Against NYU Expansion
The New York State Court of Appeals on Tuesday agreed to hear a case against New York University’s expansion plan, a move that paves the way for critics to try again to block the school’s initiative to expand throughout Greenwich Village.
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UC Berkeley Studies International Education Campus in Richmond
On the waterfront seven miles from UC Berkeley, the university owns what is now an isolated and somewhat ramshackle collection of storage facilities and labs. But Berkeley's chancellor envisions it as a future showcase for international education.
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Campus Anti-Semitism
More than half of Jewish students at American colleges reported personally experiencing or witnessing anti-Semitism within the past six months, according to survey findings released Monday. The findings should be a wake-up call to college administrators that Jewish students face real problems of bias, said Kenneth Marcus, president of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law.