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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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How Much Graduates Earn Drives More College Rankings
PayScale introduced its first college salary report in 2008, and the College Scorecard from the federal government followed last year, ushering an elephant into the hallowed halls of college admissions: What do the schools’ graduates actually earn? Despite the hand-wringing of many in academia, who saw the immeasurable richness of a college education crassly reduced to a dollar sign, the data has wrought a sea change in the way students and families evaluate prospective colleges.
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History of Insults: Nasty Words About Women Serve a Purpose for Men
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center comments on a history of penalties for explicitly attacking women in politics.
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Russia’s October Surprise
Mitchell Orenstein of the School of Arts & Sciences writes about Russia’s failed attempt to “hack the election.”
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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
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Drug Reverses One Baldness Type; Is Male Pattern Next?
George Cotsarelis of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted about treating male pattern baldness.
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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.