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NCAA Says It’s Investigating Academic Fraud at 20 Colleges
UNC, you’re not alone. The National Collegiate Athletic Association is investigating allegations of academic misconduct on 20 campuses, the association’s head of enforcement told The Chronicle on Tuesday.
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NYU Waited Months to Tell Police That a Student Allegedly Set Fire to a Bed with a Girl in It
A New York University student set fire to the bed in his dorm room — where a 19-year-old woman was fast asleep and intoxicated, according to the New York Daily News. The attacker allegedly filmed this all on Snapchat, singing
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Penn Ethicists Call for a Return of the Mental Asylum
Dominic Sisti and Andrea Segal of the Perelman School of Medicine and Ezekiel Emanuel of PSOM and the Wharton School discuss their thoughts on returning to mental asylums.
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#ExceptionalCareers Series: How to Be a Creative Altruist
Adam Grant of the Wharton School is mentioned for his book Give and Take.
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This University Ad Full of Hot People Making Out Will Make You Feel Things
The University of Moncton in Canada released this ad, meant to attract prospective students. It’s full of sexy co-eds doing sexy things.
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Obama Proposal to Cut 529 Plan Tax Benefits Meets Opposition
A White House proposal to trim tax benefits of popular college-savings accounts is stirring opposition in Congress, and complicating negotiations over efforts to streamline education tax breaks.
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Word Choice on Twitter Measures a Community’s Vital Signs
Johannes Eichstaedt of the School of Arts & Sciences is quoted about researching how emotional language used on Twitter in particular locations predicts heart disease rates in those areas.
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Penn to Move Ahead on $77.6M Development
Penn is highlighted for plans to build the Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics.
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Should Urban Universities Help Their Neighbors?
Anthony Sorrentino of the Office of the Executive Vice President says, “There’s a new way of orienting economic development around those most-reliable institutions -- you can say to a hospital or university, ‘you’re not going anywhere, you’re providing great service, but how else are you contributing to the place you
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National Jewish Book Awards Cite Philly Authors
Kathryn Hellerstein of the School of Arts & Sciences is featured for winning the Barbara Dobkin Award for Women’s Studies for her book A Question of Tradition: Women Poets in Yiddish, 1586-1987.