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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Jonathan Zimmerman of the Graduate School of Education wrote about living life with the same real last name as Bob Dylan.
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Students at Yale University had been working on a video addressing campus sexual assault for months after a high-profile incident on campus last year. But when a 2005 video of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump talking about groping women was published in The Washington Post last week, the project suddenly felt urgent.
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Black and Latino students in the U.S. are far less likely than their peers of other races to attend elite public universities, according to a new study. The Center for American Progress, a think tank in Washington, D.C., analyzed federal data from 2014 to compare the types of public colleges students of different races attended. The group divided colleges by selectivity, ranking them as elite public universities, other four-year schools or community colleges.
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In an apparent first, federal officials have found a college in violation of Title IX, the gender-equity law, for infringing on the rights of students accused of sexual violence. The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights had opened an investigation of Wesley College, in Delaware, in July 2015. That investigation was one of more than 300 the office, known as OCR, has conducted into colleges for possibly mishandling reports of sexual violence. In the past, OCR’s findings about colleges have occasionally alluded to the rights of accused students.
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Matthew Levendusky of the School of Arts and Sciences is quoted on voter registrations and changes before the presidential election.
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Joseph Turow of the Annenberg School for Communication comments on license-plate reader data and marketing.
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Is a gift that can be taken back at any time a gift at all? That's what faculty members at the University of Kentucky are asking in light of a proposed $10 million center for the study of free enterprise, to be funded by the Charles Koch Foundation and Kentucky resident John Schnatter, of Papa John's Pizza fame. After a split vote by the Senate Council, the full University Senate voted this week in a symbolic motion to endorse the center's academic mission -- but not its terms.
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The architecture and design of the Pennovation Center are featured.
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Richard M. Englert began his career at Temple University 40 years ago as a professor of educational administration. Since then, he's been a vice president, an associate dean, a dean, a deputy provost and provost, chief of staff, chancellor, and acting president, twice. His resumé became complete Tuesday when Temple's board named him president. "He's earned the right to this appointment," said Kevin Feeley, a spokesman for Temple's board. "He has the full confidence of the board."
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Salamishah Tillet of the School of Arts & Sciences reviews “The Birth of a Nation” and the role of women in the film.