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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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A Great Choice for University President, Until She Doesn’t Want to Be Bossed
Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education pens an op-ed about sexism at historically black colleges and universities.
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Whom Does Secrecy Protect?
Criminal proceedings can take a long time to work their way through the system. But if someone has been indicted or convicted, that's public information -- and members of public can decide whether and how to interact with someone accused or found guilty. Contrast that to disciplinary proceedings for faculty members on college and university campuses, which usually happen in secrecy and the outcomes of which often remain private.
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Trump Should Embrace an Infrastructure Bank
Jennifer Blouin of the Wharton School comments on the amount of corporate funds overseas.
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Deep Dish: The US Election and the Global Economy
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.
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Do International Dorms at Community College Signal a Change of Mission, Culture?
Doctoral student Michael Brennan of the Graduate School of Education is quoted about researching the internationalization of community colleges.
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California Democrats Ask Obama to Pardon Nearly 750,000 ‘Dreamers,’ but White House Says It Wouldn’t Work
The members of Congress who persuaded President Obama to grant temporary legal status to hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought into the country illegally as children are now asking him to use a pardon to prevent those immigrants from being deported by President-elect Donald Trump. The White House, however, promptly batted down the idea. Reps.
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Fighting Campus Carry
Public universities in Texas are a few months into the experience of campus carry, a state law that allows students with licenses to bring guns to colleges. One fear of critics has been realized there: an accidental misfiring at Tarleton State University in September. Yet in Georgia, where I teach, all of our campuses thankfully remain gun-free. While Texas legislators passed and its governor happily signed a law allowing concealed weapons on campus, my governor, Nathan Deal, vetoed a bill that would have done the same here in the Peach State.
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For Women, Glass Ceilings, and Glass Walls, Too
One week after the election, many students on my campus, one of the nation’s largest women’s colleges, remain heartbroken that Hillary Clinton was not able to shatter, in her words, “the highest, hardest glass ceiling.” At Smith, every student leadership position from captain of the sports team to president of the student government is held by a woman, but my students know, even today, that this is a rare exception in a sexist world.
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Audio: Episode 12: Breaking Down a Changing America with Maria Hinojosa and Dan Hopkins
Dan Hopkins of the School of Arts & Sciences talks about immigration.
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Massachusetts College Students Join National Walkout for ‘Sanctuary Campuses’
In protest of President-elect Donald Trump’s immigration proposals, college students in Massachusetts joined a national walkout calling on their schools to protect undocumented immigrants on campus from potential federal deportation efforts. Organized under the hashtag #SanctuaryCampus, students at Harvard, Tufts, MIT, UMass Amherst, Amherst College, Mount Holyoke College, and other local universities initiated petitions and rallies Wednesday seeking assurances that their fellow classmates, who are undocumented immigrants, would not be deported.