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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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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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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.