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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
Penn In the News
In October, when the Harvard University dining-hall employees’ union went on strike, students joined workers with picket signs and staged a sit-in of the lobby where negotiations were taking place. And before the strike, medical students challenged Harvard’s health-care proposals for workers. After nearly three weeks on strike, the workers finally reached an agreement with Harvard administrators, and the collection of students who helped catalyze the workers’ strike joined them in calling the fight a success.
Penn In the News
Bernice Grant of the Law School comments on the importance of lawyers being financially literate.
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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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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.
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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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One hundred and ten college and university presidents have issued a joint letter to President-elect Donald Trump urging him to forcefully “condemn and work to prevent the harassment, hate and acts of violence that are being perpetrated across our nation, sometimes in your name, which is now synonymous with our nation’s highest office.” This action is needed, the presidents write, because of the incidents taking place nationwide, including many on college campuses.
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The xenophobic rhetoric and nativist policies heralded by President-elect Donald Trump could have consequences for colleges and universities counting on foreign students to raise revenue. Moody’s Investors Service anticipates the flow of international students into the United States will wane if Trump upholds a campaign promise to limit or end the H-1B visa program for high-skilled foreign workers.
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John Detre of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on debilitating cluster headaches and treatment options.
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Joseph Turow of the Annenberg School for Communication cites location information as one of the most valuable data types a retailer can gather from consumers.
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Diana Mutz of the School of Arts & Sciences and the Annenberg School is featured on a podcast discussion on trade, globalization and the presidential election outcome.