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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Scrutiny for Rankings Plea
In 2013, University College Cork, in Ireland, asked its faculty members to encourage people familiar with the university to register to vote in the survey of universities conducted by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), one of the major producers of international higher ed rankings. Many people at the time said recruiting people to vote would make the reputation reviews scientifically invalid, since the voting pool could be influenced by having more judges loyal to or familiar with one university than others.
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The Dark Side to Workplace Happiness
Adam Grant of the Wharton School is mentioned for the importance of having a sense of meaning in the workplace.
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To Woo Students, More Colleges Now Hand-deliver Acceptances
The visitors walking up her family's driveway mystified Maya Wolf. Four wore blue jackets. One was in a lion mascot costume. Then, as it clicked, she reached to her mouth in surprise. "Congratulations on your acceptance," said one of the men, who introduced himself as Grant Gosselin, the admissions dean for Wheaton College. He handed Wolf an oversize white envelope. "We've heard great things about you." Instead of mailing an acceptance letter, Wheaton College had sent its president, admissions chief, the school mascot and others to surprise the 17-year-old Wolf on Tuesday.
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Peddling Hate Rather Than Hope
Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education compares the campaign rhetoric of President Barack Obama in 2008 to that of Donald Trump.
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Muslim Ambassadors On an American Campus
You’re the only one, the Americans told Amnah Alkhan. We’ve never really talked with other girls who wear head scarves. Just you. Arizona State University, where Amnah is a senior, has no shortage of observant Muslim women who cover their hair with the scarf known as a hijab. There are 775 students, like Amnah, from Saudi Arabia; most of the women, though not all, wear the hijab. Some are fully veiled. Amnah is funny and frank and speaks with a directness that puts people at ease.
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Audio: Why Are Presidential Campaigns So Long? There’s Plenty of Blame to Go Around
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center talks about the length of the presidential campaign cycle.
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As Adjunct Professors Unionize, Debate Sharpens Over Cost to Schools
Recent moves by adjunct professors to unionize at Duke University, the University of Chicago and the University of Minnesota are heightening a debate over how much such steps will cost schools and whether the moves could radically shrink the jobs available to the low-level professors. A recent study found that U.S. universities’ costs could increase to a total of $24 billion from $4.3 billion for courses currently taught by adjuncts, if union targets for higher pay are met, according to a paper co-authored by Georgetown University business school professor Jason Brennan.
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Legal Challenges to Obama Health Law Could Cost Women
Birth control was not the first thing on Tracey L. Poston’s mind when she arrived at the University of Notre Dame as director of research compliance. But when she needed to replace her IUD the next year, she was shocked to discover that contraception was not included in her insurance. The cost had been covered by her previous employer, a Jesuit university, yet Notre Dame said it ran contrary to Roman Catholic doctrine. Ms. Poston, who’s not Catholic herself, felt that Notre Dame should not be intruding on her personal life.
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How to Get People to Delay Retirement
Olivia Mitchell of the Wharton School talks about older workers who are met with incentive to retire sooner rather than later.
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Penn Study: ‘Concerning’ Rise in Opioid Prescriptions After Low-risk Surgeries
Mark Neuman of the Perelman School of Medicine says, “The growth we observe over time in opioid prescribing after surgery occurs against the backdrop of a major public health crisis of prescription opioid abuse.”