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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
Penn In the News
A collaborative study about Americans being treated for mental disorders with medication instead of therapy from the School of Social Policy & Practice is cited.
Penn In the News
The anodyne welcome letter to incoming freshmen is a college staple, but this week the University of Chicago took a different approach: It sent new students a blunt statement opposing some hallmarks of campus political correctness, drawing thousands of impassioned responses, for and against, as it caromed around cyberspace.
Penn In the News
Jonathan Moreno of the Perelman School of Medicine and the School of Arts & Sciences writes about the background that led to the Goldwater Rule.
Penn In the News
Kenneth Goldsmith of the School of Arts & Sciences is featured about his latest book, Wasting Time on the Internet.
Penn In the News
The headlines have been pounding out a drumbeat of angst and activism over such reminders of contentious division as Confederate flags at the universities of Alabama and Mississippi and statues of southern soldiers from the same era at the universities of Texas, Mississippi, and North Carolina.
Penn In the News
The key to graduating in four years (at least in the minds of many parents) is picking a major early and sticking with it. But a new report suggests students who settle on a major as late as senior year are more likely to graduate from college than students who declare one the second they set foot on campus. The report, published by the Education Advisory Board, a research and consulting firm based in Washington, D.C., challenges the notion that changing majors is keeping students in college past their intended graduation date and driving up their debt.
Penn In the News
A report published by the Graduate School of Education about disciplinary action in schools is cited.
Penn In the News
More high-school graduates are taking the ACT college-entrance exam, as states push students to consider their options for higher education. But the test results show a growing portion aren’t actually ready for college. Sixty-four percent of 2016 high school graduates sat for the standardized test, up from 49% in 2012. The jump comes as more states—including Mississippi, Nevada and South Carolina—require districts to administer the tests, in the hope of increasing students’ awareness of college pathways.
Penn In the News
Jonathan Moreno of the Perelman School of Medicine and the School of Arts & Sciences says, “Ethically, unless you have entered into a therapeutic relationship with a patient, you are not supposed to diagnose their medical condition.”
Penn In the News
This year’s high school graduates were less likely to demonstrate college readiness on the ACT admission test than those who took the exam the year before, according to results made public Wednesday. ACT officials attributed the falling achievement levels to a rise in the number of students tested. Nearly 2.1 million graduating seniors took the ACT, the nation’s most widely used admission test, an all-time high. They amounted to about 64 percent of the class of 2016. An estimated 59 percent took the test in the previous class.