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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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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.
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Students at the University of Maryland at College Park may soon pay an extra student fee to help cover the costs of the university's struggling office that investigates sexual assault. The $34 fee, approved by the university’s student government last month and reported by BuzzFeed News Tuesday, was widely criticized, with advocates saying it is highly unusual for students to fund services to combat sexual assault and ensure that their university remains compliant with federal law.
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Yale University's athletics department has apologized for the use of stereotypical and degrading images of Native Americans that were reproduced in the program for Saturday's football game against Dartmouth College. Dartmouth has long abandoned its former team name, Indians, but many of the programs date to the era when the name was used and Yale (and other colleges) mocked the Indians in programs for athletic events.
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A dispute over wages and benefits between Harvard and its cafeteria workers has led to a strike that is now in its seventh day, with no immediate resolution in sight, an official at the nation’s wealthiest university said on Tuesday. Harvard was relying on employees who volunteered to work in the university’s dining halls, which were operating on a skeleton schedule and offering reduced options and boxed lunches.
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Of the six winners of Nobel Prizes affiliated with American universities so far this year, all are foreign born. Five were born in the United Kingdom, and the sixth was born in Finland -- a fact that prompted one policy wonk to tweet with tongue in cheek, "Damn immigrants taking Nobel Prizes away from Americans," adding a smiley-face emoticon. All three winners of the physics prize were born in Britain but work at U.S. universities: Brown and Princeton Universities and the University of Washington, in Seattle. The two winners of the economics prize, from the U.K.
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Last year, I conducted alumni interviews for Yale applicants. It's an easy gig. You take a smart, ambitious 17-year-old out for hot chocolate, ask him about his life and then report back to the university, “Yup, this is another great kid.” I recently got an email asking me to reenlist. Was I ready for another admissions season? I checked “No,” mostly because “Never again” wasn't an option. I hold no grudge. I have no ax to grind.
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President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price comment on the creation of the Sachs Program for Arts Innovation funded by a $15 million gift from alumni Keith and Katherine Sachs.
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Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education about the response to her essay about why university faculties remain predominately white.