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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Breaking With History
It’s hard to separate Lincoln University in Missouri from its history: after the Civil War, veterans of the 62nd and 65th U.S. Colored Infantries headed back to the Midwest from Texas and Louisiana, where they had served, to establish a school for African-Americans. The Lincoln Institute, named to honor the veterans' slain commander in chief, soon began offering college courses and became part of the black land-grant system. Decades later, in 1921, the Missouri Legislature passed a bill introduced by Walthall M.
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Penn Study: Harry Potter Readers Have Lower Opinions of Donald Trump
A study led by Diana Mutz of the Annenberg School for Communication and the School of Arts & Sciences about the opinions of Harry Potter readers on Donald Trump’s political views is highlighted.
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Video: Family Thanks Officers After iPad Given to Child With Leukemia
Penn police officers Ryan James and Gary Cooper are highlighted for replacing a stolen iPad for a child suffering with a rare form of leukemia.
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Not Practicing What They Preach?
The vast majority of freshmen expect their colleges to provide a welcoming environment for people from diverse religious and nonreligious perspectives, according to findings from a new survey released this week. But those same students may not be so welcoming themselves. Researchers from New York University and North Carolina State University joined with Interfaith Youth Core to conduct the national study at 122 institutions last year.
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Video: As Classrooms Become More Diverse, Educators and University Leaders Must Look to Minority-serving Institutions
Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education writes about diversity in higher education and using minority-serving institutions as models.
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Embattled Temple President Turns to Lawyer Known for Negotiating Exit Deals
The lawyer whom embattled Temple University president Neil D. Theobald has hired as he tries to stave off his ouster by the university board has a long history of representing college presidents who need to negotiate exit deals once relationships have soured. Raymond D. Cotton, a Washington lawyer who works for the Boston-based Mintz Levin firm, is a nationally known expert on college presidential compensation.
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The Trouble With Hillary Clinton’s Free Tuition Plan
This month, Hillary Clinton announced a plan to make public colleges free for the children of any family earning less than $125,000 a year. The move was widely seen as an appeal to supporters of her primary opponent Bernie Sanders, who made free college a pillar of his insurgent campaign. Binyamin Appelbaum of The New York Times wrote Saturday that the plan could have the perverse effect of driving tuition higher. As is often the case with campaign promises, the details are fuzzy. And probably for good reason. A look at how states finance higher education shows that the more Mrs.
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What the Candidates (and Journalists) Can Learn From the 1948 Democratic Convention
David Eisenhower of the Annenberg School for Communication and Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center comment on political conventions.
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Can Anyone Get Post-traumatic Stress Disorder?
Elizabeth Turk-Karan of the Perelman School of Medicine writes about people suffering from PTSD.
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The Right to Ban Arms
Three professors at the University of Texas at Austin are suing the institution over its response to the state’s new campus carry law, which explicitly permits licensed, concealed weapons on campus. The law is supposed to go into effect Aug. 1 on public university campuses in the state, and a year later at community colleges. Specifically, the professors seek the right to ban guns from their classrooms -- something the university has maintained would put it out of compliance with the new law.