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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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The free-speech watchdog FIRE is a familiar irritant to college administrators, but until this past year, the rest of the country wasn’t paying much attention. An “epic” year is what Greg Lukianoff, president and chief executive of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, calls it.
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Could universities in the United States and elsewhere benefit from post-Brexit perceptions that Britain is no longer a welcoming country? A new survey suggests that prospective international students are already reconsidering whether to study in Britain after citizens there voted in June to leave the European Union. And other countries could benefit from a potential brain drain of top academics and a possible drying up of research funds flowing from Europe to British institutions.
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Carl June and Bruce Levine of the Perelman School of Medicine are noted for their collaborative work using personalized cellular therapies to treat cancer.
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Campus sexual assault commands enough attention that both major political parties’ platforms take it on. "Democrats will fight to bring an end to sexual assault — wherever it occurs, including on campuses — because everyone deserves a safe environment where they can learn and thrive, not live in fear," that party proclaims. Its platform pledges support services for survivors, the term many victims use; a fair process for resolving cases; and greater prevention.
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Albert Einstein often gets credit for words he never spoke, including these: "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." In 1963, the line appeared in the sociologist William Bruce Cameron’s text Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking. Two contemporary sociologists have now brought Cameron’s intuitive wisdom to life.
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Giang Nguyen of Student Health says, “One of the good things historically about pelvic exams is that they made women good health-care consumers.”
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Campus sexual assault commands enough attention that both major political parties’ platforms take it on. "Democrats will fight to bring an end to sexual assault — wherever it occurs, including on campuses — because everyone deserves a safe environment where they can learn and thrive, not live in fear," that party proclaims. Its platform pledges support services for survivors, the term many victims use; a fair process for resolving cases; and greater prevention.
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Chinese primary and secondary schools are often derided as grueling, test-driven institutions that churn out students who can recite basic facts but have little capacity for deep reasoning. A new study, though, suggests that China is producing students with some of the strongest critical thinking skills in the world. The unexpected finding could recast the debate over whether Chinese schools are doing a better job than American ones, complementing previous studies showing Chinese students outperforming their global peers in reading, math and science.
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Jason Karlawish of the Perelman School of Medicine writes about Alzheimer’s disease patients as the last casualty of the Cold War.
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During the Democratic primaries, Hillary Clinton proposed the idea of debt-free college to counter a popular refrain from Bernie Sanders that public colleges become tuition-free. Since she claimed the nomination, Clinton has been moving closer to some of Sanders’ proposals from their primary fight in an effort to reach his voters. One of those ideas includes free college, with some tweaks on the Sanders plan (namely, an income cutoff of $125,000).