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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Paying to Retain Professors
The University of Wisconsin at Madison has long been considered to be among the nation's top universities. But in recent years it has faced deep budget cuts from the state and a critical governor who led the effort to remove tenure rights from state statute. Only some of those provisions were subsequently placed in university regulations, and many faculty members believe the new system lacks sufficient rights for professors. As the university has faced these controversies, one question has been whether it could hold on to its faculty members.
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Audio: Brexit and Northern Ireland
Brendan O’Leary of the School of Arts & Sciences is interviewed about the impact of the Brexit.
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Audio: Where Did ‘I Approve This Message’ Come From?
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center talks about the “I approve this message,” disclaimer in political campaign ads.
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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.
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Savings? Yes. But Narrow Health Networks Also Show Troubling Signs.
Daniel Polsky of the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School comments on what marketplace consumers are seeking in insurance plans.
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Audio: Confronting Sexual Assault and Rape Culture
Malik Washington of Sexual Violence Prevention and Education joins a conversation about the pervasiveness of rape culture.
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Qualcomm to Build Robotics Lab at U.City’s Pennovation Works Complex
The Qualcomm Research Philadelphia facility will be located at Pennovation Works.
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Penn Calculates Financial Toll of Blight, Violence in Philadelphia
Charles Branas of the Perelman School of Medicine is cited for leading a research team to calculate the value in savings from adding slight improvements to vacant houses and clearing abandoned lots.
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Title IX Officers Pay a Price for Navigating a Volatile Issue
On the second day of class this year, the University of Florida fired its deputy Title IX coordinator amid complaints that he had too much power over resolving sex-assault cases. Then, this month, Baylor University’s Title IX coordinator resigned, charging the institution with refusing to give her enough authority. The claims — that one Title IX officer had too much power, while another didn’t have what she needed — highlight the pitfalls and pressures for those in a high-profile job at the center of one of higher-education’s most vexing issues: campus sexual assault.
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Our Idea of Tolerant Isn’t
You get used to the vehemence. In academe, anything that’s published about our own special place gets somebody going. Even so, the vituperation among the professoriate generated by the journalist Nathan Heller’s May 2016 New Yorker article, "The Big Uneasy," took me aback. A case study of student discontent at Oberlin College, the essay is by no means the first to raise academic hackles about students. Before Heller, the Northwestern University professor and feminist Laura Kipnis stirred an outcry in these pages with her charges of "sexual paranoia" among women students on campus.