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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Career Counselors or Headhunters?
College career centers are increasingly creating corporate partnership programs, providing access to students to company hiring departments in exchange for thousands of dollars. The partnerships include increased access to students, preferential treatment at career fairs and advertising on career center websites. Those in favor of the practice argue that the partnerships help ensure that students land fulfilling, high-paying jobs after graduation.
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Video: Thinking About Euthanasia? Researchers Say, ‘Probably Not’
Ezekiel Emanuel of the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School is quoted as the lead researcher on a study of physician-assisted suicide.
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One in Four College Freshmen Won’t Return This Fall. Here’s How Schools Are Trying to Bring Them Back.
After his freshman year of college in South Carolina, Ronald Torres cried the whole way back to Camden. "I was like, man, I can't believe this is happening to me," the 20-year-old said. After two semesters spent worrying about his ill grandmother, distracting him from studies, Torres had also lost some of his financial aid, leaving him unable to return to South Carolina State University after finishing freshman year in 2015.
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Donald Trump Is Turning Republicans Into Anti-vaxxers
Jonah Berger of the Wharton School comments on results from a survey that included questions on participants intentions to vaccinate themselves and families.
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Heroin Hogs the Spotlight, But Cocaine Remains a Menace
Kyle Kampman of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on the lack of treatment for cocaine dependence.
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Reining in Prosecutorial Misconduct
John Hollway of the Law School writes about prosecutorial misconduct.
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Associate Degree, Certificate Pathways Lead to 4-Year Degrees
The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center has released a report titled ”Certificate and Associate Degree Pathways” in which the Center breaks down the various kinds of degrees that students received in the 2009-2010 academic year. The report finds that of all the associate degrees award that academic year, 536,351 were earned by students with no previous degrees or certificates. Within the next six academic years, over 64% of these students enrolled at a four-year institution, and 41% of such students successfully earned a bachelor’s degree.
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How to Make College Diversity Work Without Division
The purpose of diversity efforts on college campuses is to enhance the population ― but in drawing so much attention to people’s differences, are we actually deepening divides? That’s the exact argument made by Jonathan Haidt and Lee Jussim in a recent Wall Street Journal piece titled “Hard Truths About Race on Campus” that references recent pushes by universities to meet student diversity demands with initiatives such as adding chief diversity officers.
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In New Jersey Student Loan Program, Even Death May Not Bring a Reprieve
Amid a haze of grief after her son’s unsolved murder last year, Marcia DeOliveira-Longinetti faced an endless list of tasks — helping the police gain access to Kevin’s phone and email; canceling his subscriptions, credit cards and bank accounts; and arranging his burial in New Jersey. And then there were the college loans. When Ms. DeOliveira-Longinetti called about his federal loans, an administrator offered condolences and assured her the balance would be written off. But she got a far different response from a New Jersey state agency that had also lent her son money.
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Kept in the Dark, by Decree or by Choice
Barbie Zelizer of the Annenberg School for Communication writes an op-ed about American journalism’s uneven reporting for international news, particularly of distant violence.