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‘Does This Have to Go Through the IRB?’
I hear both colleagues and students ask this question in a tone of dread: "Does this have to go through the IRB?" Except for the ones who ask it with a sense of grievance. They all hate the idea that an institutional review board gets to decide whether their research plan is good enough to proceed. And every time, I wish I could just reach over and flick that chip off their shoulders. I’m soft on the IRB, and for a reason. Ours, which primarily deals with social-science and humanities research, has been more helpful to me than I ever expected it to be.
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Leaked Faculty Letters and Race at Smith
When professors complain about students to administrators, they typically assume their grievances will be private. But students in the social work program at Smith College held a protest Tuesday after someone leaked two letters from faculty members to college leaders. Those letters accused the social work program of letting students make unfair accusations against people who run parts of the program.
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The Students Behind ‘Students for Concealed Carry’
When Chris J. Brown heard about the Virginia Tech massacre nearly a decade ago, he began questioning why it was illegal for students to protect themselves by carrying guns on college campuses. Mr. Brown has always loved guns. His family owns firearms, and as a kid he read Guns & Ammo magazine. When he turned 21, he bought his first weapon and secured a concealed-handgun permit soon thereafter.
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Will Highway Project Bring Prosperity for Norristown?
John Landis and Eugenie Birch of the School of Design are quoted about developing and revitalizing Norristown.
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Why Making a Backup Plan May Set You Up to Fail
Katherine Milkman of the Wharton School is mentioned for her collaborative study about the impact of preparing a backup plan.
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Retreat From Saudi Arabia
Algonquin College, a community college in Ontario, is withdrawing from Saudi Arabia. The college plans to transfer control of its male-only campus in Jazan, a city close to the Yemeni border, to its Saudi partner. “After more than a year of negotiation, we were unable to come to an agreement that would have met our financial objectives,” Algonquin’s president, Cheryl Jensen, said in a news release. “We have said from the beginning that the Jazan campus must be financially viable for us to continue operating.”
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UC Berkeley Chancellor to Resign Amid Controversies, Including Criticism of University Response to Sexual Harassment Allegations
Nicholas B. Dirks, chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley, is stepping down from the post amid a string of controversies, ranging from budget troubles to the way the flagship university has handled sexual harassment allegations involving the faculty. He also faced questions raised in a Los Angeles Times report in July about alleged misuse of public funds for travel and the personal use of a campus fitness trainer.
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What Do Hospitalized Patients Say Would Be Worse Than Death?
Emily Rubin of the Perelman School of Medicine blogs about studying what constitutes good treatment for critically ill hospital patients and what they fear.
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Audio: PennSound’s Archive Project to Bring 100 Years of Poetry to Audio Listeners
Chris Mustazza of the School of Arts & Sciences talks about PennSound, an online audio archive project.
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Free College? The U.S. Should Look at State Models That Are Already Working
Hillary Clinton’s stance on public higher education — that every American student should be able to graduate from college debt free and, in millions of cases, tuition free — marks the first time that such a bold, expansive proposal has been put forth by a major party’s presidential nominee. This proposition could not come at a more crucial time. As Clinton proposes, and as President Obama and Sen. Bernie Sanders have said, we must expand college access like never before and solve the problem of staggering student-loan debt once and for all.