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Heavy Recruitment of Chinese Students Sows Discord on U.S. Campuses
Chutian Shao moved from China to the Midwest college town of Champaign, Ill., a few years ago. Some days, he says, it feels as if he hasn’t traveled very far at all. On a recent Monday, the 22-year-old woke up in the apartment he shares with three Chinese friends. He walked to an engineering class at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he sat with Chinese students. Then, he hit the gym with a Chinese pal before studying in the library until late into the night. He recalls uttering two fragments in English all day.
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Why Studying Abroad Is Safer Than You May Think
The deaths of Americans studying overseas make headlines back home, but going abroad is no riskier than staying on campus. In fact, it might be less dangerous. A new comparison of health and safety data finds that death rates are lower for students on study-abroad programs than for those on American campuses. Students in the United States are an estimated 2.18 times as likely to die as their classmates overseas.
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Stop Worrying About Guns in the Classroom. They’re Already Here.
If you work at a Texas college and are worried by the prospect of having guns in your classroom, relax. The new campus-carry law changes your risk of gun violence very little. I can almost guarantee that if you have a few semesters of teaching under your belt, at some point there have been students with guns in your classroom.
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Hospital Plans 60 Penis Transplants for Wounded Servicemen
L. Scott Levin of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on the technical and ethical issues involved with hand, face or penis transplants.
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UC-Santa Cruz Congratulates Thousands on Admission. But, Oops, They Didn’t Apply.
The upbeat emails went out this week to 4,000 students in the District, Maryland and Virginia who are on high alert for anything regarding their college applications. It seemed like great news:”Congratulations on your admission to UC Santa Cruz!” “To celebrate your achievement and to provide an opportunity to learn more about UC Santa Cruz, you and your family are cordially invited to a special reception in the Virginia area on March 28th, 2016,” the emails continued. But the students who received those invites Wednesday night were nonplussed.
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Disparities in Coaches’ Academic Incentives Raise Concerns Over Gender Equity
The first rounds of the NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments are set to begin on Thursday and Friday, with hundreds of thousands of dollars in performance bonuses at stake for the coaches whose teams advance. Many of those coaches’ contracts also contain incentives to prioritize academics and help their players perform well in the classroom. Men’s coaches have the potential to earn far bigger academic bonuses than do women’s coaches in dozens of Division I programs, a discrepancy that legal experts say could expose colleges to employment-discrimination claims.
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Despite Doubts and Hurdles, Why Medicine Is a Calling for Penn Med Student
Fourth-year medical student Rebekah Lucien of the Perelman School of Medicine shares her passion for medicine and her journey to Match Day.
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Defining Intolerance
The University of California System is trying again to adopt a policy that addresses intolerance on campus. After a draft policy was rejected last year amid First Amendment concerns, the new draft appears to be attracting more support. Last year, a series of incidents led many to fear anti-Semitism on UC campuses was on the rise. A Jewish fraternity at UC Davis was defaced with swastikas, for example.
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These Colleges Expect Poor Families to Pay More Than Half Their Earnings to Cover Costs
Colleges often pride themselves on admitting low-income students, but many of those schools expect the neediest families to cover an outsized portion of the cost of attendance, according to a report released Wednesday by the New America Foundation. Policy analysts at the think tank found that hundreds of schools expect families making $30,000 or less to pay an amount that equals more than half of their annual earnings to send their children to college.
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The Mental and Academic Costs of Campus Activism
Maxwell C. Little wasn’t in a good place last fall. Many days he stayed up until 3 a.m. to meet with fellow founding members of Concerned Student 1950, the student group protesting racism at the University of Missouri at Columbia, going home for just a few hours and regrouping in the morning. He was tired all the time — physically, mentally, and emotionally. As the campus protests escalated, it became harder for Mr. Little to juggle being an activist and a full-time student.