Penn in the News

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.

Michael Useem, Howard Kunreuther and Erwann Michel-Kerjan of the Wharton School write about lessons to be learned from the earthquake in Nepal.

Irwin Horwitz starts each semester of his strategic management class at Texas A&M University-Galveston with a basic lesson. He asks his students to imagine that they’re setting up a Kool-Aid stand with a certain number of resources which cost a certain amount of money. Then he asks: How much Kool-Aid would you have to sell to break even? Most seniors majoring in management can perform this exercise with no problem.

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.

CASI Spring Visiting Fellow Prashant Jha is interviewed about the Nepal earthquake.

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.

Yale University on Tuesday said it will amend its leave policies, allowing students more time to declare a leave of absence instead of outright withdrawing, and change its readmission process to ease the transition for students seeking to return to school after taking time off for medical, personal or other reasons.

Provost Vincent Price is interviewed about the Penn Wharton China Center in Beijing.

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