Higher Ed News: Award-winning Team at Penn Works to Make Fracking Safer Keystone Edge Higher Ed News: Award-winning Team at Penn Works to Make Fracking Safer Undergraduate students Ashwin Amurthur and Teddy Guenin are profiled as winners of the Y Prize.
Audio: Gamechanger: Jerome Allen CBS Philadelphia Audio: Gamechanger: Jerome Allen Jerome Allen, head coach of men’s basketball and an alum, is profiled.
Who Is Being Political? Inside Higher Ed Who Is Being Political? There is wide agreement in North Carolina that Gene Nichol is an articulate and forceful advocate for the impoverished of his state, unafraid to criticize political leaders who in his opinion aren't doing enough about poverty. Nichol does so from an academic perch. He is a law professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and leads the university's Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity.
Its Future in Doubt, South Carolina State Ponders Its Disastrous Recent Past Chronicle of Higher Education Its Future in Doubt, South Carolina State Ponders Its Disastrous Recent Past Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education is quoted about the financial troubles of South Carolina State University.
Apple’s Plan for World Domination Is a Waiting Game USA Today Apple’s Plan for World Domination Is a Waiting Game Jonah Berger of the Wharton School says, “Out intuition is that the first mover is the winner in a product category … but whoever is second to market is usually the winner, learning from the mistakes of others.”
Canadian Woman Picked to Head La Salle University Philadelphia Daily News Canadian Woman Picked to Head La Salle University On a visit to Philadelphia in November, Colleen Hanycz did what most visitors do when in our midst: She ate her first cheesesteak. The Canadian native isn't sure which locale she consumed said sandwich, only remembering that the eatery was inside the Reading Terminal Market and featured a "Best of" sign. The sandwich "alone is reason to move to Philadelphia," Hanycz said yesterday.
An Open Internet: How New Regulations Hurt Both Sides of the Debate Fortune.com An Open Internet: How New Regulations Hurt Both Sides of the Debate Christopher Yoo of the Law School expresses his opinion on the Federal Communications Commission’s upcoming vote on new open Internet rules.
Gentrification Widespread in Philadelphia PhillyVoice Gentrification Widespread in Philadelphia Eugenie Birch of the School of Design and Penn’s Institute for Urban Research is quoted about gentrification in Philadelphia.
Philadelphia Doesn’t Need More Charter Schools Philly.com Philadelphia Doesn’t Need More Charter Schools Amy Brown of the School of Arts & Sciences co-authors an op-ed about the Philadelphia public school system and the influx of charter schools.
Cal State’s African American Enrollment Down Despite Years of Outreach Los Angeles Times Cal State’s African American Enrollment Down Despite Years of Outreach For a decade, California State University leaders have set aside several Sundays each February to visit churches in the African American community and preach the benefits of preparing young people for college. During that time, undergraduate enrollment of African Americans at Cal State's 23 campuses has mostly been on the decline, from 5.8% of the total student population in 2004 to 4.6% in 2013.