Penn in the News

Paul Rozin of the School of Arts & Sciences comments on Americans who refuse to try recycled water.

David Zaring of the Wharton School writes about the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s place on the Federal Open Market Committee.

Since well before MOOCs emerged, the University of California at Berkeley has been giving away recordings of its lectures on YouTube and iTunesU. In fact, Berkeley has become one of the most-generous distributors of free lectures on the web, adding some 4,500 hours of video per year. But that web channel, webcast.berkeley.edu, will soon stop adding fresh content.

Pennsylvania State University’s board of trustees will add four new female board members, increasing its gender diversity, which several female members had raised as an issue. But the way things stand now, come July, the state’s flagship university will have no African American trustees.

Peter Cappelli of the Wharton School offers advice on how to deal with workplace complainers.

At a recent panel discussion organized by the Big 12 Conference, a moderator asked four college athletes what they thought of a number of proposals to reform college athletics. Getting rid of late evening games? The athletes said they like playing during prime time. Realigning the conferences so that athletes don’t have to travel so far? The athletes said they enjoy traveling across the country.

Jessie Handbury of the Wharton School is cited for authoring a paper on nutritional disparities.

Dozens of high-school seniors and their parents have arrived on the campus at a make-or-break moment for Ohio Wesleyan University. It’s late April, the university’s last chance to woo these admitted students in person. Every one of them counts. For Ohio Wesleyan, as for many small- and medium-size private liberal-arts colleges, tuition is the primary source of income. That makes hitting enrollment goals crucial.

Undergraduates Steve Rybicki, Ariana Schanzer, Stephanie Mark, Vahid Hoshmand, Vivek Menon, Brian Tong, doctoral candid

If your vice president for enrollment looks haggard these days, maybe it’s because the percentage of accepted applicants who enroll keeps going down, complicating those all-important revenue projections. Or maybe she’s scrambling to attract more transfer students to the campus. The best strategy for recruiting foreign students? Everyone’s trying to figure that out, too.