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‘Unprecedented’ Purge in Turkey
Turkey’s Higher Education Council reportedly demanded the resignation of 1,577 university deans on Tuesday as the widespread purges of state institutions begun after last week’s failed coup extended into the education sector. In addition, more than 15,000 education ministry officials were suspended and 21,000 schoolteachers had their licenses revoked.
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Penn Medicine Plans New Medical Technology Tower
Penn Medicine’s plans for a new building, housing the Center for Healthcare Technology, are profiled.
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Audio: Nashville’s World Record Comedy-thon Basks in the Absurdity of Endurance Feats
Doctoral candidate Kevin Gotkin of the Annenberg School for Communication writes and speaks about a Nashville comedy-thon.
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Taking the Battle Against Lyme Disease Ticks to the Backyard
Anne Norris of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on the importance of educating people about tick-bite avoidance.
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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.
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Having a ‘Plan B’ Can Hurt Your Chances of Success
Katherine Milkman of the Wharton School co-authors an article about the impact of preparing a backup plan.
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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.