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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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The Future of Fraud-busting
Daniel Langleben of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted about studying the way in which neural activity can signify lying.
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The Real Price of a College Degree
The chart I shared last week illustrating just how much the nation’s declining income levels have contributed to the rising cost of college for the average family prompted plenty of comments about the value of a college degree. As I expected, I also heard from several higher education experts who asked why I used the “sticker price” of college in the chart to represent tuition levels. A college’s sticker price is like the sticker on the window of a new car: It’s the advertised price, but most people pay a lower, discounted figure. Just how much lower depends on a variety of factors.
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Orderliness in School – What a Concept
Research about school discipline policies conducted by Joan Goodman of the Graduate School of Education is cited.
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The Shrinking Humanities Major
To listen to many politicians, one would think talented science students are abandoning laboratories to study the humanities. In fact, it is the humanities that are losing undergraduate majors, and a new analysis from the American Academy of Arts & Sciences documents the trend.
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Parks and Rec Preparing Haddington Woods for Centuries to Come
David Hewitt of the School of Arts & Sciences is quoted about restoring parks in Philadelphia.
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Jobs for the Young in Poor Neighborhoods
Collaborative research about the impact of temporary summer jobs for young people living in poor neighborhoods conducted by Penn and the University of Chicago Crime Lab is cited.
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Want a College Admissions Edge? These Schools Might Give You a Gender Advantage
The Washington Post analyzed admission rates for men and women at about 200 prominent colleges using federal data for the 2014 cycle, the latest available. There were significant gaps favoring men at many colleges and women at others. But a large number of schools had no gender gaps or minimal gaps in admission rates. The schools were included in the review if they ranked among the top 100 in the most recent U.S. News and World Report lists of national liberal arts colleges and national universities.
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Why We Eat Too Much When We Don’t Sleep Enough
Andrea Spaeth of the Perelman School of Medicine is cited for publishing a study that monitored resting metabolic rate.
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Why Early Risers Tend to Be Healthier
Mitesh Patel of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on how fitness trackers can be a good start to influence behavioral change.