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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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College Students Fear Deportation or Loss of Rights
When she was a child, Carimer Andujar remembers, federal immigration agents searched her neighborhood in Passaic. That was the first time that Andujar realized her immigration status made her vulnerable. Now a 21-year-old engineering student at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Andujar worries about agents staging a raid on campus.
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In Defense of DACA
More than 90 college and university presidents have signed a statement calling for the continuation and expansion of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, under which more than 700,000 young people who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children have registered with the federal government in exchange for temporary relief from the possibility of deportation and a two-year renewable work permit. President-elect Donald J. Trump has said he would end the DACA program, which was authorized by President Obama by executive action.
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Political Intolerance Among University Faculty Highlights Need for Viewpoint Diversity
Philip Tetlock of the Wharton School and the School of Arts & Sciences is cited for the phrase “scientific hell.”
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Harvard Study Finds Strong Link Between Gratitude and Happiness
Martin Seligman of the School of Arts & Sciences is quoted about studying the effect of positive-psychology interventions.
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Seven Sisters Colleges Respond to Steve Bannon’s Derogatory Remark With Open Letter
Add the Seven Sisters colleges to the growing chorus of critics of Steve Bannon, the “alt-right” leader and Breitbart chairman who was appointed as chief strategist to President-elect Donald Trump last week. In an open letter Monday, the heads of the seven northeastern liberal arts schools called on Bannon to “take a more expansive, informed and tolerant world view” in his new position. They specifically cited a 2011 interview in which Bannon used a derogatory lesbian slur in reference to Seven Sisters college alumnae and the women’s liberation movement.
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Temple’s Health System Getting Healthier Under Larry Kaiser
Larry Kaiser remembers the charge he got when he took over as chief of Temple University's struggling health system in 2011. "I was told in no uncertain terms by one board member that I basically had 18 months to turn it around because they didn't think we could last much longer than that," he said. The enterprise had been running a deficit since 2007, and between 2008 and 2010 had accumulated nearly $133 million in operating losses. It also was recovering from a strike by its registered nurses and technical professional employees.
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ADHD in Women: A Lifetime of Frustration, Its Cause Easily Missed
Anthony Rostain of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted about the Penn Adult ADHD Treatment & Research Program. Lisa Tuttle, a skills coach in the program, talks about her own struggle with ADHD.
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How to Bring Out Every Lawyer’s Inner Entrepreneur
Bernice Grant of the Law School comments on the importance of lawyers being financially literate.
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Cornel West Is Coming Back to Teach at Harvard
Cornel West, the fiery African-American scholar who broke with Harvard University 14 years ago and whose searing critiques of President Barack Obama earned him the enmity of many on the left, has been invited back to the university to teach. He is to hold a joint appointment at the Harvard Divinity School and the department of African and African-American studies as a professor of the practice of public philosophy, a title reserved for those who have made outstanding contributions in their professional fields.
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Trump’s Influential Son-in-law Went to Harvard. Is This How Jared Kushner Got In?
Daniel Golden is the editor of ProPublica, an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. In 2004, he won the Pulitzer Prize for beat reporting for a series of Wall Street Journal articles exposing how some wealthy white families can use assets — cash and political connections — to get their children into top colleges and universities.