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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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Should the Social Security Retirement Age Be 76?
Olivia Mitchell of the Wharton School is cited for collaborative research about social security benefits.
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New Era for Disability Rights
Miami University in Ohio last month became the latest institution to overhaul its accessibility policies for people with disabilities. Within a year and a half, students there will receive personalized accessibility plans and encounter course materials, learning platforms and websites that conform to accessibility standards.
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13 Science and Health Issues Left Behind During This Election
Jonathan Moreno of the Perelman School of Medicine and the School of Arts & Sciences comments on no laws existing to regulate gene editing for enhancement.
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There Needs to Be a Better Way to Rate the Quality of Colleges
A college degree has long promised a better job, a better career, and a better life. The anxiety that students and parents have about college is typically limited to the front end of the process: getting into school, figuring out how to pay the tuition bill, and choosing the right major. But today there is a lot of noise around the degree as a recognizable signal of job readiness.
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Harvard’s Rape Culture: Men’s Cross-country Team Also Made Lewd Rankings
Less than a month after sexually explicit comments made by members of the Harvard University men's soccer team about members of the women's soccer team in 2012 went public, the Harvard Crimson reports that past members of the men's cross-country team made similar comments in yearly spreadsheets. In the spreadsheets, members of the men's cross-country team commented on the physical appearances of members of the women's cross-country team, sometimes in a "sexually explicit" way, according to the Crimson.
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Here Are a Few of the Academics Who Will Vote for Donald Trump
In some ways, Amin U. Sarkar’s conservatism makes sense. He’s a professor of economics at Alabama A&M University, where he tries to impress upon his students the importance of free-market trade to a thriving economy. He is against abortion and is the proud father of a United States Air Force veteran.
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Title IX in the Age of Trump
Colleges and universities are grappling -- urgently, constantly and necessarily -- with the problem of campus sexual assault.
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How to Cope If Your Side Loses on Election Day
Michael Thase of the Perelman School of Medicine says, “Both sides have had their heartbreaks” when it comes to election-day results.