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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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When Kiyonda Hester started the final year of her master’s program in social work, on Wednesday at Long Island University’s Brooklyn campus, an instructor began a course by acknowledging he was unqualified to teach it. The temporary instructor, who is an administrator, told the students that he had to be there so he wouldn’t be fired, Ms. Hester said. He took attendance and noted that the syllabus had been posted online. When students asked why the syllabus bore a date from another year, Ms.
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The University of Oregon will rename a dormitory that honored a classics professor who was a leader in the Ku Klux Klan, responding to student protesters who objected to the name. It was the latest university to confront its own history, after a wave of student protests last year amid racial tensions nationally. The University of Oregon’s board of trustees voted unanimously to change the name temporarily to Cedar Hall. President Michael Schill explained in a written statement:
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In an escalating war of words, a student has filed a federal complaint against the University of Richmond and gone public with her allegations that officials mishandled her sexual assault complaint against a university athlete. Earlier this week, Cecilia Carreras, who said she was raped by the athlete in an off-campus house last year, published an essay on The Huffington Post’s contributor network detailing her experiences reporting the assault to campus officials.
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Serena Mayeri of the Law School pens an op-ed about the future effects of the E.R.A.’s defeat.
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The Netherlands’ university association has defended the growth of English-language courses at Dutch institutions, arguing that it will “enhance the quality of education” and boost the country’s “innovative strength and competitiveness.” Figures revealed by Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant last month found that 60 percent of courses at Dutch universities are taught in English, and this increases to 70 percent when only master’s degrees are counted. The analysis was based on 1,632 degree courses at 13 of the country’s research-intensive universities.
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Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center writes about the importance of Donald Trump debating Hillary Clinton for the voters’ sake.
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When Daniel Rendon walked onto campus for the first time and saw all the other students lounging around laughing, listening to music, playing hacky sack, he felt completely out of place. After five years in the military, and some time trying to make ends meet with construction jobs that ended with a literal crash when he fell off scaffolding onto a concrete floor, college life seemed surreal. “I was thrown into a world I didn’t quite recognize,” he said. “Everyone seemed to have not a care in the world except hanging out and enjoying one another’s company.
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Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center critiques host Matt Lauer for how he conducted a forum for presidential nominees Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
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On Aug. 23, the National Labor Relations Board issued its long-awaited decision in a case involving whether graduate teaching and research assistants at Columbia University could unionize, resulting in a significant decision that overruled existing precedent on the issue. In its ruling, a majority of the board concluded that student assistants employed by private institutions of higher education can be considered employees for the purposes of organizing and collective bargaining under the National Labor Relations Act.
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Stanley Plotkin of the Perelman School of Medicine discusses the need for a lyme disease vaccine.