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Audio: The Best-laid Backup Plans…
Research by Katherine Milkman and alumnus Jihae Shin of the Wharton School about how backup plans may cause a person to be less motivated is cited.
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California Colleges Step Up Efforts to Help Students in Mental Distress
It's early in the semester of your English literature course and one of your students has already missed four classes. The student seems fatigued and out of sorts, and writing assignments are dominated by themes of hopelessness and despair. The student may just be anxious about the start of classes or could be showing symptoms of more serious mental distress. But what to do? Increasingly, faculty are being urged to intervene at the earliest signs a student may be in trouble.
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Race Not Only Mizzou Issue
Racial tensions were merely the tip of the iceberg leading to the dramatic resignations Monday of University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe and Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin, according to professors, students, state lawmakers and others. Both men made a series of enemies among faculty, graduate students and legislators, these people said. As students’ discontent over a series of recent racial incidents escalated, they found few ready supporters around campus, they added. State Rep. Steve Cookson, chairman of the Higher Education Committee, called for Mr.
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Controversy Surrounds Push for Albany, Darton Merger
Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education says that southern state governments have a long history of not supporting historically black colleges and universities.
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U. Missouri President, Chancellor Resign Over Handling of Racial Incidents
After weeks of escalating student protests and the threat of a football team boycott, the president of the University of Missouri system resigned Monday, forced out amid complaints that he had done too little to address racism and other ugly incidents on campus. Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin — who oversees the university’s main campus in Columbia, Mo. — also will step down, the university system’s governing body, the Board of Curators, announced Monday evening.
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Are Elite College Courses Better?
The public -- and heck, many people in higher education -- widely assume prestigious colleges and universities provide the best quality education. That's why employers often want to hire their graduates and why many parents want their children to attend them.
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Belly Fat Raises Risk of Death Even If Weight Is ‘Healthy’
Mitchell Lazar of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on visceral fat.
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Hillary Clinton Is an ‘Intro-Extrovert,’ and Maybe You Are Too
Adam Grant of the Wharton School is cited for his research on ambiversion.
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Penn Study: Pay Patients to Take Their Pills
David Asch and Kevin Volpp of the Perelman School of Medicine are highlighted for studying how monetary incentives can help patients take medicine to help reduce health issues.
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Does Brisk Walking Beat the Gym for Weight Control?
Rex Ahima of the Perelman School of Medicine shares his thoughts on a study that revealed the impact of brisk walking on body mass indexes and waist circumference when compared to people who played sports or exercised in the gym.