Penn in the News

Stewart Friedman of the Wharton School is cited for studying graduating students’ plans to have children.

Student fraternity and sorority leaders will fan out across Capitol Hill on Wednesday with a challenging mission: to repair the image of campus Greek life. That image has taken a beating in recent months, thanks to a slew of incidents at campus chapters — including racist chants and the sharing of photos of naked, incapacitated women — that have stirred widespread debate about the role of fraternities.

Dean Joan Hendricks of the School of Veterinary Medicine talks about the newly renovated Ryan Veterinary Hospital lobby.

Nearly 8% of Occidental College students who responded to a survey about sexual misconduct on campus reported that they had been sexually assaulted, according to the results released this week. About 630 undergraduates, 30% of the student body, responded to the survey. Fifty-one said they had been sexually assaulted, most of them by someone they knew during their first year on campus.

The rioting, looting, arson, and vandalism that happened here this week might have horrified people across the country, watching it unfold on 24-hour news channels and Facebook feeds. But no one in this city should have been surprised. Much of Baltimore has long been a tinderbox of crushing poverty, pervasive violence, racism, and stark socioeconomic divides. It was only a matter of time.

Frances Jensen of the Perelman School of Medicine writes about brain development of teenagers on their way to college.

The Brookings Institution joined a crowded market of efforts to classify colleges with the release on Wednesday of its new "value added" rankings. The rankings consider how well colleges’ alumni performed on three economic measures: midcareer earnings, student-loan repayment, and "occupational earnings power," the average salary of occupations in which alumni work.

Richard Schwab of the Perelman School of Medicine is interviewed about sleep apnea.

Xu Han of the Wharton School is quoted about the expansion of the Wanda Group.

As federal officials have stepped up enforcement of rules requiring colleges to resolve reports of sexual assault, many accused students who contend that they were unfairly found responsible and expelled have sued their institutions. But in the last month, victories for universities in two such lawsuits show how difficult it is for accused students to win legal battles against institutions on the issue.