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  • College Divestment Pledges Are Mostly Empty Gestures
    Bloomberg Business

    College Divestment Pledges Are Mostly Empty Gestures

    Stanford, Oxford and Georgetown universities have won praise for promising to purge their endowments of direct investments in coal, embracing the fight against climate change. One detail gets lost in the celebration: the colleges have few, if any, such investments to sell in the first place. Almost three dozen colleges have announced fossil-fuel divestment pledges over the last three years, and their actions tend to have less substance than advertised.

    Jun 23, 2015

    Universities Under Attack
    Inside Higher Ed

    Universities Under Attack

    An April attack on Kenya’s Garissa University College by Shabab militants that left 147 people dead. The disappearance -- and presumed killing -- of 43 students at Mexico’s Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers’ College of Ayotzinapa last fall. The September 2014 killing of Muhammad Shakil Auj, dean of Islamic studies at the University of Karachi in Pakistan and a liberal Muslim scholar who had reportedly been accused by fellow professors of blasphemy for a speech he gave abroad.

    Jun 23, 2015

    Audio: The Complicated History of the Confederate Flag
    Newsworks (WHYY-FM)

    Audio: The Complicated History of the Confederate Flag

    Carolyn Marvin of the Annenberg School for Communication talks about the evolution of the meaning of the Confederate flag in the wake of the murders at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston.

    Jun 23, 2015

    Sweet Briar’s ‘No Nonsense’ New President Faces a Tall Task
    Chronicle of Higher Education

    Sweet Briar’s ‘No Nonsense’ New President Faces a Tall Task

    Phillip C. Stone believes in the power of a good story. Storytelling was a key part of Mr. Stone’s fund-raising strategy at Bridgewater College, in Virginia, where he served as president for 16 years, according to Carol A. Scheppard, its vice president for academic affairs. He is also easily moved by other people’s stories, said Ms. Scheppard, especially ones about students who beat the odds. "He was very efficient about running the institution," she said, "but you couldn’t trust him with giving away money to students who came in with a hard-luck story."

    Jun 23, 2015

    Time to Change Prez Debates
    Philadelphia Daily News

    Time to Change Prez Debates

    Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center is cited for issuing a report entitled “Democratizing the Debates.”

    Jun 22, 2015

    How a Court Ruling Could Create Healthcare Chaos
    Philadelphia Inquirer

    How a Court Ruling Could Create Healthcare Chaos

    Ezekiel Emanuel of the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School describes health-care policy and insurance as being “interconnected.”

    Jun 22, 2015

    Couple’s Virology Research at Penn Was Pioneering
    Philadelphia Inquirer

    Couple’s Virology Research at Penn Was Pioneering

    Gertrude and Werner Henle, husband-and-wife virologists of the Perelman School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, are featured.

    Jun 21, 2015