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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Steven Berkowitz of the Perelman School of Medicine offers suggestions on how teachers and parents should speak to children about violence.
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The touch tours offered for visually-impaired visitors at the Penn Museum are highlighted. Gene Magee of the Museum speaks about things he has learned from guiding the tours.
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Mary Naylor of the School of Nursing is quoted about gaps in care and communication for patients transitioning from hospitals to their homes.
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State and local government spending on prisons and jails increased by 89 percent between 1990 and 2013, while state and local appropriations for higher education remained flat, according to a new report from the U.S. Department of Education. During that same time period, 46 states reduced higher education spending per full-time-equivalent student, the department found. On average, the report said state and local higher education funding per student fell by 28 percent while per capita spending on corrections increased by 44 percent.
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Peter Cappelli of the Wharton School talks about résumé optimization.
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It’s an anxiety-ridden decision for millions of students each year: how to compare the quality of the colleges they’re considering so they can ensure a pay off from what will likely turn out to be the largest investment of their lifetime. While a plethora of college rankings serve as a crude proxy for quality among thousands of colleges in the U.S., most students don’t attend the brand-name institutions that tend to top the rankings. In reality, students are often limited by finances, academics, or family and job obligations and have just a few choices about where to go.
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Kevin Volpp of the Wharton School and the Perelman School of Medicine and Katherine Milkman also of Wharton are quoted.
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The U.S. House Appropriations Committee on Wednesday released a draft funding bill that would block implementation of federal gainful employment rules and would not back the U.S. Senate's attempt to restore year-round Pell Grant eligibility. The bill also includes $33.3 billion for the National Institutes of Health, which is $1.25 billion above this fiscal year's funding level. The Obama administration's attempt to regulate vocational programs at colleges based on their graduates' labor-market standards went into effect last year.
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Jonah Berger of the Wharton School is cited about his new book, Invisible Influence: The Hidden Forces that Shape Behavior.
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Over three generations, the Michael family forged a deep bond with the University of California, dating back nearly 50 years to when Jay Dee Michael Sr. was the university system’s vice president and chief lobbyist. Family members proudly displayed degrees from the campuses in Los Angeles, Davis, Berkeley and Santa Barbara. And when Mr. Michael died last year, his family asked that memorial donations go to a U.C. Davis institute. Recently, though, the relationship has soured, a victim of the economic forces buffeting public universities. Jay Dee Michael Jr.