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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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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.
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What Voters Want Most From America’s Next President
Martin Seligman of the School of Arts & Sciences is quoted about studying presidential campaign speeches.
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How One University Went All-In on Restorative Justice
Gabriella Lanzi, a junior at the University of Michigan, has spent the past two years of college immersed in conflict. But she doesn’t mind. As a student facilitator in Michigan’s Office of Student Conflict Resolution, her job is to help her fellow students navigate disputes either with their peers or, if they may have violated a university rule, with the institution itself.
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For Years, the Way Hillary Clinton Talked About Race Bothered Me. Here’s How I Made My Peace.
Salamishah Tillet of the School of Arts & Sciences writes about presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and race.
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After U-Md. Students Propose a New Way to Pay for Sexual-assault Investigations, School Agrees to Hire More Staff
After student government voted to impose a student fee to raise money to improve the University of Maryland’s ability to handle claims of campus sexual assault — an apparently unprecedented move, according to several national experts — university leaders have agreed to hire more staff to address the problem. The student government voted earlier in the semester to impose a $17-per-semester fee to raise nearly $1 million to address what they said were serious deficiencies at the Office of Civil Rights and Sexual Misconduct.
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Is It Worth It to Boycott Donald Trump Products?
Maurice Schweitzer of the Wharton School is cited for studying and writing about boycotts.
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Welfare Funds for Students Far From Welfare
With the state experiencing huge revenue shortfalls during the recession in the late 2000s, Michigan lawmakers got creative with their budget process. Their maneuvering led the state to direct federal welfare funds to state college tuition grants -- one of a handful of options to tackle a huge state budget shortfall. But nearly a decade later, that budget tactic has become a permanent feature of Michigan’s funding of higher education.
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University of Maine Creates Stephen King Chair in Literature
The University of Maine is creating the Stephen E. King Chair in Literature in honor of one of its most famous graduates. The university is collecting applications from English professors to fill the position now. The appointment is set to begin in August and is a five-year, renewable term. The university says the position is tenured and designed to honor the UMaine English department’s “most celebrated graduate.” The school says the position will have undergraduate education as a central focus.
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‘Envisioning the Faculty’
By now just about everyone has gotten the message that the adjunctification of higher education is unsustainable. Yet there's no apparent sense of urgency by administrators to address the problem, as academe continues to "react" -- rather than thoughtfully "respond" -- to the changing makeup of the faculty and the factors driving it, argues a new book from Adrianna Kezar, founder of the Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty and Student Success at the University of Southern California.