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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 One College Helps Students With Learning Disabilities Find Their Way
Ryan Manley was diagnosed with attention-deficit disorder in seventh grade, but when he enrolled at Texas Tech University as a freshman in 2014, he was tired of using medication and accommodations to treat it. He decided to try to make it on his own. It didn’t go well. He fell behind on his assignments and eventually became so discouraged that he stayed in his dorm room most of the day. Midway through his second year, the university declared him academically ineligible, he says. "I took a lot of classes," Mr. Manley says, "but I didn’t pass a lot of classes."
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The People Who Deliver Your Students
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GWU, Joining National Movement, Opens a Food Pantry to Feed Students in Need
George Washington University has for years pushed back against the notion that it is a pricey school for rich kids. The school grew its financial aid and ditched a requirement for applicants to submit admission test scores — measures intended to underscore a desire to recruit students from all levels of family income.
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The 6 Secrets of Self-control
The research of Martin Seligman of the School of Arts and Sciences is the subject of this article on the secrets of self-control.
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UNH to Spend Thrifty Librarian’s Money On a $1 Million Football Scoreboard
Thrifty librarian Robert Morin made headlines after he donated his $4 million estate to his alma mater and employer, the University of New Hampshire. Now, the university faces criticism for deciding to use $1 million of his donation to buy an electronic football scoreboard. Critics say that it is a misuse of money that could be better used for academic or library development purposes. A UNH official says that the plans for the donation respect Mr. Morin’s wishes.
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Outrage Over a Coach’s Comments
When asked by a reporter about how he would handle one of his players protesting racial inequality by not standing during the national anthem, Clemson University's head football coach, Dabo Swinney, said he would not resort to discipline. Then Swinney continued to speak for eight minutes, criticizing athletes who have not stood for the anthem in recent weeks and comparing their form of protest unfavorably to the work of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Of those protesting police violence, he said, “Some of these people need to move to another country.”
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Access Gaps in Developing Countries
Global higher education access targets are likely to be missed, according to a study that found that women are at the back of the queue when university enrollment widens in the developing world. An analysis of higher education participation rates in 35 countries in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa by University of Cambridge researchers detected “extremely low” rates for people under 25 in almost all of them: below 10 percent in 31 of the countries, and below 5 percent in 20.
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Yes, People Really Are Driving While Playing Pokemon Go
Catherine McDonald of the School of Nursing comments on teen drivers playing Pokemon Go.
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Gains in Minority Grad Student Enrollments
First-time graduate student enrollments were up 3.9 percent last fall from a year earlier, according to a new report from the Council of Graduate Schools. Each of the last four annual surveys has found that enrollment has increased, but 2015’s bump was one of the biggest since 2009. Contributing to that growth was an increase in the share of underrepresented minority student enrollees, which could be a response to national conversations and institutional initiatives on faculty diversity. At the very least, it’s a possible start to broadening the eventual faculty applicant pool.
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Innovation – Everyone Says It’s the Answer, but Is It What Colleges Need?
You can always chide higher education by referring to innovation in the sector. Or, rather, the supposed lack of it. The criticism should be familiar: Paradoxically, in an industry full of thoughtful people, the imaginative ideas are strangled by dull leadership and organizational bureaucracy. That swipe is at the top of an article on higher education’s "16 most innovative people" in the current issue of Washington Monthly.