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Penn’s Provost to Lead Duke
President Amy Gutmann announced the departure of Provost Vincent Price to become the president of Duke University.
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Free-Speech Groups Describe Campus Media as Besieged
Colleges in every sector of higher education are threatening the independence of their student journalists, says a report released on Thursday by advocacy groups focused on free speech or academic freedom. The report describes several recent public controversies — including those at Mt. Saint Mary’s University, in Maryland; Northern Michigan University; and Wesleyan University, in Connecticut — in which student newspapers or their advisers complained of coming under undue pressure to restrict content.
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Ohio State Attack Prompts Colleges to Review Emergency-response Plans
Vice President Maureen Rush of Public Safety comments on emergency-response and active-shooter protocols after the 1999 Columbine school shooting.
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The ‘Economic Halo’ Effect of Churches
Ram Cnaan of the School of Social Policy & Practice is cited for researching the “economic halo” created by churches.
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A School Official Called for Compassion for the Ohio State Attacker. People are Demanding She Be Fired.
Hundreds of people are demanding that an Ohio State University administrator be fired after she called for compassion for the student who drove into a crowd of students and faculty Monday morning and slashed at people with a butcher knife. Eleven people were hospitalized after the attack, which sent screaming students fleeing for safety and barricading themselves in classrooms. Abdul Razak Ali Artan, a junior at Ohio State, was fatally shot within a minute by a university police officer.
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Audio: “Power Poses” Don’t Stand Up
Graduate student Kristopher Smith of the School of Arts & Sciences is cited.
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Answering This One Question Could Save the Lives of 1 Million Babies
Deborah Driscoll of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted about doctors thinking about the cervix as a tendon and researching how it affects preterm labor.
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Should We Let Our Pets Lick Us?
Shelley Rankin of the School of Veterinary Medicine offers tips for avoiding infection from pets.
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Values for the Trump Era
Academics (and journalists) have been accused in the aftermath of the presidential election of being “out of touch” with the American electorate. At the same time, academics have played important leadership roles in eras and places in which free expression has come under threat -- as some believe it is now in the U.S. What is the role of the academic in such an era, or, at the very least, what are the academic’s obligations to his or her profession, campus and government?
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At Risk: Many Companies Don’t Have Enough Disaster Insurance
Robert Borghese of the Wharton School comments on company owners purchasing disaster insurance.