11/15
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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Colleges Raised a Record $1.26-Billion for Sports in 2014
Wealthy donors are fueling a boom in gifts to major-college sports programs, with the biggest athletics departments reporting a total of more than $1-billion in donations last year, according to a survey released this week by the Council for Aid to Education. It’s the third time in the past four years that sports gifts have topped $1-billion.
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Brand Recall
Last week’s report that King’s College London has dropped its plan to become known as King’s London has rekindled the debate on institutional rebrands. Here are some of the dos and don’ts of name changes in Britain -- and whether it is really worth it.
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Audio: TurboTax Tries to Recover From Price-hike Stumble
Jonah Berger of the Wharton School comments on TurboTax’s price increase.
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Can Arizona Students Pass a Citizenship Test – and Should They Have To?
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center is quoted about civics and education. A civic ignorance study from the APPC is also cited.
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A New Faculty Challenge: Fending Off Abuse on Yik Yak
The three Eastern Michigan University professors had no idea that they were under attack by the Honors College students seated before them. The three women knew that many of the nearly 230 freshmen in the auditorium resented having to show up at 9 a.m. every Friday for a mandatory interdisciplinary-studies class.
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Sorority Leaders Stand By Decision to Keep U-Va. Women Away From Frat Parties
National sorority leaders are standing by their decision to keep University of Virginia sorority members away from fraternity parties Saturday night for the
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Politics of the 529 Plan
President Obama’s backpedaling this week on a provision in his tax plan that would have gutted benefits for college-savings plans highlights the challenges facing advocates for low-income students who want to overhaul higher educ
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Think Snoring Is Normal? Why Sleep Apnea Shouldn’t Be Ignored
Michael Grandner of the Perelman School of Medicine discusses sleeping habits such as snoring.
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The Credit Hour Is Here to Stay, at Least for Now
The Carnegie Unit has been around for more than a century, and unless someone can come up with a better way of tracking college credit, it won’t be going anywhere anytime soon. It presents challenges, but it has value because it sets minimum instructional standards.
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Does Anyone Make Accurate Geopolitical Predictions?
Barbara Mellers and Michael Horowitz of the School of Arts & Sciences co-author an article about geopolitical predictions.