Penn in the News

Nearly a year ago, Gov. Jerry Brown of California signed a law requiring the state’s colleges and universities to adopt an "affirmative consent" standard defining that "only yes means yes" — that students engaging in sexual activity must signal they are willingly doing so. Now other states are making — or at least weighing — similar moves. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York signed a law this month requiring affirmative consent on college campuses, and advocates of the practice say it is likely to spread elsewhere.

Doctoral candidate Steve McGill of the School of Engineering and Applied Science is highlighted about RoboCup 2015.

Martin Seligman of the School of Arts & Sciences is mentioned for studying how people view failures.

Peter Cappelli of the Wharton School writes about Hillary Clinton’s profit sharing proposal.

Richard Ingersoll of the Graduate School of Education and the School of Arts & Sciences is cited for studying teacher retention.

Few selective colleges have changed their admissions practices since the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin two years ago, according to a report released on Tuesday by the American Council on Education. Yet many institutions, it found, have since embraced various strategies for increasing racial and socioeconomic diversity in their student body.

Tom Wadden of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on how the weight of fathers is not on physicians’ radar when monitoring the weight of an expectant and/or new mother.

The beer-soaked streets leading to Jackson Square in this city’s historic French Quarter bustled on Monday evening with characteristic revelry – and a short-lived, if chaotic, debate over student loan debt. “They’re coming,” a face-painted man in a full-body alligator costume yelled from his bicycle. “They’re two blocks away.” With that warning, several dozen student activists, staged strategically at a corner bar, finished their drinks, gathered their protest signs, and geared up for action. The target?

Here are my top 7 mistakes that pundits and critics make when they talk about open online education: Mistake #1:  "Open Online Courses Are a Substitute for Traditional Courses" Higher order learning is an activity that cannot be scaled. Foundational knowledge may be appropriate for a MOOC (or a textbook, or even a really well-designed educational video game), but advanced learning works best with an educator.

The international opportunity is not one U.S. colleges and universities can afford to overlook.