Building a Better Valve The New York Times Building a Better Valve Howard Herrmann of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on patients treated with a transcatheter aortic valve replacement.
Sweet Briar Reaches Deal to Stay Open The New York Times Sweet Briar Reaches Deal to Stay Open Sweet Briar College, the women’s liberal arts college in rural Virginia that announced it would close in August — setting off a storm of protest and lawsuits from students, faculty and alumnae — will remain open for at least another academic year under an agreement announced Saturday by the attorney general of Virginia.
Charleston, Juneteenth and What It Means to Be Black in America Huffington Post Charleston, Juneteenth and What It Means to Be Black in America University chaplain Charles Howard writes about the attack on black churchgoers in Charleston, S.C., and on the black experience.
Crossing the Pond Inside Higher Ed Crossing the Pond The most pressing challenge to undergraduate education in the United States is arguably its sharply rising cost. In a 2013 Bloomberg News article, Michelle Jamrisko and Ilan Kolet assert that tuition expenses have increased 538 percent since 1985, compared with a 286 percent jump in medical costs and a 121 percent gain in the Consumer Price Index. Jamrisko and Kolet further write that “the ballooning charges have generated swelling demand for educational loans while threatening to make college unaffordable for domestic and international students.
Penn Sets the Pace for Free Course Offerings Philadelphia Business Journal Penn Sets the Pace for Free Course Offerings Penn’s partnership with edX is featured.
Boot Camp Bolsters Skills of MSI Faculty Diverse: Issues in Higher Education Boot Camp Bolsters Skills of MSI Faculty Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education is quoted about the work of Penn’s Center for Minority Serving Institutions through initiatives like ELEVATE (Enriching Visibility, & Training Educators).
Sororities Say They, Too, Have a Key Role to Play in Preventing Sexual Assault Chronicle of Higher Education Sororities Say They, Too, Have a Key Role to Play in Preventing Sexual Assault The intense scrutiny surrounding sexual assaults on campuses has helped lengthen the list of noes that some fraternities must observe. No more open parties. No kegs, just cans. No hard liquor. No pledging. But at the University of Missouri’s flagship campus, in Columbia, members of the Greek community might soon have to contend with a more drastic change: no women in fraternity houses. At least, not when students are most likely to be partying.
Mississippi Valley Archaeological Site Reveals Transition From Hunter-gatherer to Farming Cultures of Ancient Native Americans TheAdvocate.com Mississippi Valley Archaeological Site Reveals Transition From Hunter-gatherer to Farming Cultures of Ancient Native Americans Meg Kassabaum of the School of Arts & Sciences and the Museum is featured as the project director for the Smith Creek Archeological Project.
U. of Texas Campus Seeks to Retain Students Through Data and Personal Coaching Chronicle of Higher Education U. of Texas Campus Seeks to Retain Students Through Data and Personal Coaching It’s difficult to retain students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields. Of the students who declared STEM majors at some point from 2003 to 2009, nearly half had switched out of the sciences by 2009. But the newly formed University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley hopes to keep more students in those and related fields — and on track to graduate on time — by mixing big-data and personalized approaches.
Nina Simone’s Time Is Now, Again The New York Times Nina Simone’s Time Is Now, Again Salamishah Tillet of the School of Arts & Sciences writes about the legacy of singer Nina Simone.