11/15
Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Behind the Statistics on Campus Rape
When journalists and politicians talk about campus rape—as they have frequently over the past several months—they tend to pluck numbers out of context. Studies done on one or two campuses are said to represent the country. Estimates become facts. The reality is that measuring sexual violence remains a challenge.
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Dutch Open Access Fight
Dutch universities have vowed not to soften their groundbreaking demands for publishers to permit all papers published by their academics to be made open access for no extra charge. In January last year, Sander Dekker, the Dutch minister for education, culture and science, decreed that 60 percent of Dutch research articles must be open access by 2019 and 100 percent by 2024.
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The 4 Biggest Problems With Your Fitness Tracker, According to Scientists
Mitesh Patel of the Perelman School of Medicine says, “The key point we are making is that wearable devices have received a lot of attention for their potential to change health behaviors but thus far there is little evidence to support that notion.”
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Obama Puts Tennessee’s Free-College Plan on a National Stage
A couple of years ago, the idea of free college for all students might have sounded like a pipe dream. On Friday that idea is going to gain a lot more attention and legitimacy as President Obama highlights a statewide program in Tennessee that will cover community-college tuition for all of the state’s graduating high-school seniors.
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The Roots of Obama’s Ambitious College Plan
The roots of President Obama’s ambitious proposal for free community college can be found in a 2008 book by the economists Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz called “The Race Between Education and Technology.” The book, a combination of economics and history,
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A ‘Chilly Climate’ on Campus
Women and students of color continue to encounter psychologically damaging racism and sexism on college campuses, creating a climate where students struggle to graduate and are unsure who to turn to for help.
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Seeking to Strengthen Sex-Assault Policies, Colleges Draw Fire From All Sides
Depending on whom you talk to these days, Harvard University’s policies to prevent sexual assault either are woefully inadequate or risk trampling on the rights of men following tipsy, consensual hookups.
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Gendered Skepticism
You can’t argue with hard data about gender bias in science. Except that lots of people do, especially men in online comments about research on the topic.
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The University of China Illinois
It would be hard to find a more iconic American campus than that of the University of Illinois's main campus here. On the unseasonably warm late October weekend when the homecoming football game is played, the trees have changed to their fall colors and the central quad is alive. Students wearing orange Illinois gear crisscross it.
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The Web Poet’s Society
Al Filreis of the School of Arts & Sciences and his modern poetry MOOC are highlighted.