4/22
Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Penn State Plans 'Report Card' on Frats
Pennsylvania State University for the first time this fall plans to publish a “report card” on its fraternities and sororities, listing their status — active or suspended — and their history of conduct infractions.
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How People Decide Whether to Have Children
Stewart Friedman of the Wharton School comments on how engagement in social and political networks affects the decision to have children.
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How Colleges Know What You Can Afford (and the Limits of That Tactic)
Earlier this month, Kelly Jordan, vice president for student affairs at Holy Cross College in South Bend, Ind., accidentally sent an email to the entire student body declaring that the small Catholic college was on the brink of financial ruin.
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Penn Gets $9.25M Grant for Research on Concussions
David Meaney of the School of Engineering and Applied Science and Douglas Smith of the Perelman School of Medicine are mentioned for leading concussion research.
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Mizzou’s Freshman Enrollment Has Dropped by 35% in 2 Years. Here’s What’s Going On.
This fall the University of Missouri at Columbia will welcome its smallest freshman class in nearly two decades. As of this month, just 4,009 first-time freshmen had made enrollment deposits, a decline of 35 percent from the 2015 class of 6,191 students.
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Bringing the Dream of an Elite College to Rural Students
The first time Nyreke Peters met the new college adviser at his rural high school, he was skeptical. Other adults at Hobbton High School spoke with the same Southern accent and shared an easygoing familiarity that came from having gone to the same schools and having spent their lives in the same county.
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Here's How Trump's FCC Affects You
Kevin Werbach of the Wharton School says, "There are now no rules governing what ISPs can do with your data, and that's something this FCC has endorsed."
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Philadelphia Children’s Festival Has Something for All Ages
The Annenberg Center’s Children’s Festival is highlighted.
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Why the Future Is Always on Your Mind
Martin Seligman of the School of Arts & Sciences co-pens an op-ed about why humans contemplate the future.
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Opinion: How Wharton Marketing Students Beat Wall Street Analysts at Their Own Game
Peter Fader and doctoral candidate Dan McCarthy of the Wharton School co-write an article about customer acquisition.