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Video: Analyzing the Media’s Role in the 2016 Election
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center joins a discussion about the role of the media in the 2016 presidential election.
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Mortgage Shopping at Multi-Lender Web Sites – What to Look for
Jack Guttentag of the Wharton School writes about multi-lender websites and advice during mortgage shopping.
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‘Supposed to Be Our Brothers’
For years, Harvard University's men's soccer team created an annual "scouting report" in which they evaluated, in sexually explicit terms, the freshman members of the women's soccer team. When Harvard officials learned that the tradition had continued up until this year, they canceled the rest of the men's season. Now, Harvard officials are investigating reports that the men's cross-country team created a spreadsheet about members of the female cross-country team using similar language.
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Chris Rock Stops by Penn Law Class
Comedian Chris Rock is highlighted for stopping by his lawyer Robert Cohen’s Law School classroom.
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How Clinton vs. Trump Upended Ideas About Gender and Politics
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center shares her thoughts on gender and politics in the presidential election between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
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Push for Year-round Pell
A large group of congressional Democrats last week joined a chorus of higher education associations and consumer advocates who have been pressuring appropriators to preserve funding for the Pell Grant program and restore year-round use of the federal grants. The Pell Grant is one of the rare higher education programs that receives wide bipartisan support, from Democrats like Virginia Representative Bobby Scott to Republicans like Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander and North Carolina Representative Virginia Foxx.
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MRI Scans Better Than Polygraph for Lie Detection, Penn Study Finds
Daniel Langleben of the Perelman School of Medicine is featured for studying how MRI images were a more accurate means of lie detection than using traditional polygraph readings.
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Tufts Sorority Members Quit in Support of Transgender Recruit
Half the members of a sorority at Tufts University in Massachusetts have quit in protest to their national organization’s opposition to a transgender recruit. The New England Cable News reports about 46 members of the Delta chapter of Alpha Omicron Pi left the sorority in October after the national headquarters discovered one candidate was transgender.
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Streamlining ‘Shadow Work’
Bagging our own groceries, printing out boarding passes, pumping our own gas -- everyone's day involves some "shadow work," tasks that previously would have been performed by someone else paid to do them. But academics’ professional lives increasingly are subsumed by such shadow work, and the implications for their core efforts are stark. How much actual research does a researcher get to do, for example, when he or she spends hours a week on various administrative burdens? While faculty shadow work is a widely acknowledged problem, it’s gone unaddressed at many institutions.
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The New Congress and Higher Ed
Republicans maintained control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate in Tuesday’s election as Donald Trump was elected president -- shocking Democrats who expected to win the presidency if not the upper chamber of Congress as well. However, leaders of both parties have said that a reauthorization of the Higher Education Act will be a top priority in the next Congress and will provide an opportunity to tackle a host of policy issues affecting postsecondary education.