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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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When Trump Comes to Campus
Is Donald Trump scheduled to appear on your campus? Watch out. The list of incidents at rallies for the leading Republican presidential candidate has been growing over the past few months, and college campuses haven’t been immune. Audience members have physically attacked protesters at Trump’s events on a number of occasions (“Maybe he should have been roughed up,” Trump said about a black protester who had been knocked down and kicked).
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New Procedure Allows Kidney Transplants From Any Donor
Jeffrey Berns of Perelman School of Medicine comments on the method of desensitization in the kidney transplant process.
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Race on Campus, Nontraditional Leaders, Rising Confidence: A Survey of Presidents
Shaun Harper of the Graduate School of Education shares his thoughts on college presidents thinking the institutions that they lead are doing well on race relations.
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Temple Gets Outspoken Education Prof With National Profile
When Temple University said it wanted to hire her, Sara Goldrick-Rab asked: "Are you sure you know who I am? Use Google. Read Twitter. Come back and talk to me." Temple officials had already done that. They knew that the 39-year-old educational policy studies and sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison had gained a national reputation as a social media firebrand. She had called Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker a "fascist" on Twitter for wanting to weaken tenure protections.
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Oped: College Should Be Debt Free
Here's the estimated collective college debt total for this country: $1.2 trillion. College education should be debt free. Student debt not only burdens young people with financing their college years, but also affects post-graduation economic security. Financial burdens can often force otherwise-fit students to drop out, and the consequences of late payments or defaulting on loans can affect credit scores for decades. We should provide all students with equal opportunity to gain knowledge and skills to pursue the careers of their choice.
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Federal Agency Warns Student Loan Companies About Automatic Defaults
A top official at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Tuesday said student loan companies are at risk of breaking the law if they place people in default when the co-signer of their loan dies or declares bankruptcy, signaling that the bureau may start legal action. These “auto defaults” leave borrowers with no choice but to repay the full balance or ruin their credit, making it difficult to purchase a home or car.
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Penn Doctors Urge Fellow Physicians to Help Asylum Seekers
Jules Lipoff of the Perelman School of Medicine and recent Penn Medicine graduate Jenna Peart are highlighted for co-authoring a letter urging physicians to do more to aid asylum seekers.
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Oped: To Control College Costs, Phase Out Government Aid
The cost of college is almost certainly too high, and a consequence of that is alarming student debt. Does that mean our goal should be to make college debt free? Depends how you do it. First, let's be clear: While the cost of college is probably much higher than it should be, and millions of people enter but never finish, a degree still tends to pay off handsomely, with the average graduate making far more over her lifetime - some estimate $1 million more - than someone who ended their education after high school.
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New Report Calls for Increased Sexual Assault Prevention Efforts at Harvard University
A Harvard University task force has recommended a significant increase in sexual assault prevention efforts on campus, according to a report submitted Monday to University President Drew Faust Monday.
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Building ‘Bridge Leaders’ for Minority Professors and Students
Clarence G. Williams grew up in the segregated South and earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at historically black institutions, where African-American faculty members mentored him and inspired him to pursue a career in academe. But when Mr. Williams arrived at the University of Connecticut, in 1969, to pursue a doctoral degree in higher-education administration and counseling psychology, black faculty members and students were few. He felt isolated at Connecticut, but one of the people he says played a pivotal role in helping him succeed as a Ph.D.