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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Average Student Loan Debt Increases Again
Student debt: Bernie Sanders ranted about it, other politicians talk about it, and a new study by the Institute for College Access and Success (TICAS) confirms that newly minted college graduates in the class of 2015 left school with a record high average student loan burden of $30,100. Currently, student loan debt in the United States totals nearly $1.4 trillion.
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First Faculty Strike in Pa. State System History Begins
Faculty in Pennsylvania's 14 state universities are on strike, the first in the system's 34-year history. The Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties union announced shortly after 5 a.m. that a strike could not be averted, likely bringing education to a halt for 105,000 students in the state system universities. The decision followed five consecutive days of bargaining that went into last evening and broke off after 9 p.m.
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UCLA Says Analysis of Campus Shooting Led to Security Improvements
Students and faculty saw police swarm their campus. They heard rumors of gunshots and hid in bathrooms. When they classrooms didn’t lock, they piled furniture against the doors and tried to construct makeshift barricades.
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Opioid Use May Cloud Natural Tendency to Dote on the Adorable
Daniel Langleben of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on how opioid use may affect how people respond to infants and small animals.
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How the Harvard Strike Fits Into the Equality Conversation
Dining-hall workers at Harvard University have been on strike for two weeks, and no sign of a resolution appears in sight. What might have been a simple labor dispute at another institution has become more contentious — and drawn more attention — thanks to Harvard’s elite reputation and enormous wealth. The university faces a test of wills, and a problem of appearances: How does the richest university in the world negotiate with some of its lowest-paid workers?
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College is Disrupted for More Than 100,000 Students as Pennsylvania Faculty Members Strike
More than 100,000 college students in Pennsylvania had their education disrupted Wednesday as contract negotiations affecting 14 state universities ground to a halt and professors took to picket lines.
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Melania Trump Take a Page From Hillary Clinton’s Playbook
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center is quoted about Melania Trump’s appearances.
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Middle Ground on Campus Speech
PEN America, a group of literary writers and editors, is the latest professional association to weigh in on the ongoing debate over whether campus efforts to promote inclusivity and diversity are impairing free speech. The debate thus far has engendered passionate arguments from both sides; the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education and the American Association of University Professors, for example, have argued that universities’ interpretations of federal legislation against gender discrimination at times threaten academic freedom.
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U-Va. Dean Testifies That Retracted Rolling Stone Article Devastated Her
When a University of Virginia student confided in Nicole Eramo that she had been gang-raped at a fraternity, Eramo says she took the shocking account seriously — so seriously that she referred the student to police, twice. Eramo says she then endeavored to do everything she could to persuade the student to report the incident to authorities, including the student’s claims that two other women had similarly been gang-raped at the same fraternity. If true, women on campus were in danger, and it was Eramo’s job to protect them.
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We’re All Going to Have Customer Scores
Peter Fader of the Wharton School writes about the Customer Lifetime Value calculation.