4/22
Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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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.
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After Two Years, Tucker PAL Center Re-opens in University City
Vice President Maureen Rush of Public Safety comments on the re-opening of the Tucker PAL Center.
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These Low-cost Strategies Can Save Your Retirement
Olivia Mitchell of the Wharton School comments on researching retirement investments.
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U. Missouri Leaders Uphold Decision to Fire Professor Who Pushed Reporter Away From Protesters
Leaders of the University of Missouri system announced Tuesday that they would uphold their decision to fire a communications professor whose role in campus protests brought national attention. When a video first surfaced showing her screaming at a student trying to report on protests, mass media professor Melissa Click said she didn’t think — given the extraordinary events that had paralyzed Missouri’s state flagship university campus — that her role would be a big issue.
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Candidates on Campuses
The college campus phase of the presidential race of 2016 has kicked off as scores of state primaries fill the nation’s calendar. Already you can hear in the background the alumni anger, charges of policy violations and a rush of disgruntled donors for the doors. Candidates have visited college campuses for decades, but I don’t think we have seen anything like the vitriol, name-calling, physical shoving and fighting, and controversial candidate stances that now consume the news each day. And it’s not even the general election yet.
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Too Sick for School, or Just Doesn’t Want to Go?
Angela Duckworth of the School of Arts & Sciences is quoted about children learning to “be comfortable being a bit uncomfortable.”
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Commentary: On Climate Policy, Focus on Local Goals and Benefits
Mark Alan Hughes of the School of Design writes about what to focus on when proposing climate policy.
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How a Zika Virus Breakthrough Vindicates Stem Cell Research
Jonathan Moreno of the Perelman School of Medicine and the School of Arts & Sciences explains how the Zika virus causes brain damage in newborns.
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The Harvard Law Shield Tied to Slavery Is Already Disappearing, After Corporation Vote
The symbol of Harvard Law School is already changing after the Harvard Corporation voted Monday to accept a committee’s recommendation to remove the shield used for 80 years because it does not reflect the values of the school. It was a powerful symbolic decision from one of the world’s most elite universities at a time when campuses across the United States and overseas are debating whether historic symbols, statues and names should be removed because of their ties to racism, or whether that would amount to erasing the past.