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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Peter Calautti finds a lot to like about Donald J. Trump. He likes that the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination is speaking to the concerns of people in working-class neighborhoods like the one where he grew up. He likes that Mr. Trump isn’t afraid to talk about illegal immigration. He likes that the Republican Party, which he says has abandoned conservative principles in favor of large-scale military intervention and tax cuts for the rich, is being punished by Mr. Trump’s ascendancy.
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Daniel Rader of the Perelman School of Medicine is featured for leading a study about “good” cholesterol levels.
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Rejecting a set of amendments that faculty members argued would have preserved tenure as they know it, the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents approved Thursday new tenure policies to fill a hole left by recent changes in state law. “I do not believe the academy is precisely like a business,” Regina Millner, board president, said at the meeting. “But we cannot have quality, serve our students, have quality faculty if we do not have a sound financial system. This is a different century, this is a different time ….
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It was 2004, and Sara Goldrick-Rab, a graduate student in sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, had just landed a job at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She hadn’t planned on becoming a professor. But faculty members and fellow students kept sending her an ad for the position. It seemed like a long shot — she hadn’t finished a single chapter of her dissertation — but she got an interview. "I arrived here at 10 p.m. in the middle of a snowstorm," she says, "and the chair of the department was there to greet me and take me out to dinner.
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Student activists at the University of Arizona issued a list of demands on Tuesday that included urging the university to provide free tampons and menstrual pads on campus. The demand was immediately mocked by some conservative commentators (“campus crybullies demand free tampons,” the Breitbart headline reads), but the request is not unusual.
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Jason Karlawish of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on researching showing that “what’s good for the heart is also good for the brain.”
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Shaun Harper of the Graduate School of Education writes about a new era of “political correctness.”
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Ken Winneg of the Annenberg Public Policy Center talks about the role social media plays in politics.
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The former president of Mount St. Mary’s University said at an advisory board meeting that, in effect, liberal arts didn’t sell. The term just didn’t poll well with students, he said. The discipline needed a new name or a different approach to attract more students. To some, it was a moment that encapsulated Simon Newman’s divisive tenure at the country’s second-oldest Catholic university: The private-equity chief executive and entrepreneur, an outsider, was bringing in business and marketing ideas and suggesting a new approach to an age-old enterprise.
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A sexual-assault-prevention task force at Harvard University this week presented a damning portrayal of the institution’s prestigious "final clubs," saying the mostly male-only social organizations foster "a strong sense of sexual entitlement" and "deeply misogynistic attitudes." The task force’s report has stirred debate about the role of the clubs — which are akin to similarly exclusive groups at other elite colleges — in a university community that strives to be welcoming to all.