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4/26
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
Penn In the News
Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education writes about diversity in higher education and using minority-serving institutions as models.
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The lawyer whom embattled Temple University president Neil D. Theobald has hired as he tries to stave off his ouster by the university board has a long history of representing college presidents who need to negotiate exit deals once relationships have soured. Raymond D. Cotton, a Washington lawyer who works for the Boston-based Mintz Levin firm, is a nationally known expert on college presidential compensation.
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This month, Hillary Clinton announced a plan to make public colleges free for the children of any family earning less than $125,000 a year. The move was widely seen as an appeal to supporters of her primary opponent Bernie Sanders, who made free college a pillar of his insurgent campaign. Binyamin Appelbaum of The New York Times wrote Saturday that the plan could have the perverse effect of driving tuition higher. As is often the case with campaign promises, the details are fuzzy. And probably for good reason. A look at how states finance higher education shows that the more Mrs.
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David Eisenhower of the Annenberg School for Communication and Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center comment on political conventions.
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Elizabeth Turk-Karan of the Perelman School of Medicine writes about people suffering from PTSD.
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Jonathan Moreno of the Perelman School of Medicine and the School of Arts & Sciences is mentioned for writing about vetting the health of presidential candidates.
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Perhaps concerned that Penn State's status as a national monument to sports-inspired mass delusion was not completely secure, more than 200 former football players recently petitioned university officials to reerect a bronze likeness of tarnished coaching legend Joe Paterno outside Beaver Stadium, which was removed four years ago as a sexual-abuse scandal shook State College.
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What does Boston have that Philly lacks? Merck told workers last week it was moving more than 300 jobs out of Montgomery County and New Jersey, and "increasing our investment in areas where biomedical research is converging, specifically in Cambridge, Mass." Adderall maker Shire Plc moved more than 500 jobs from Chester County to Massachusetts last year because "Boston is a biotech center," a spokeswoman said.
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Diane Spatz of the School of Nursing co-writes an article about donor breast milk.
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Penn is mentioned for being nationally recognized for civic-engagement efforts.