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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Commentary: In University City, Giving the Jobless a Chance
Penn and Penn Medicine are included in a list of partners working with Green City.
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Saudi Enrollment Declines
The number of Saudi Arabian students enrolled at American universities has skyrocketed since the launch of a massive Saudi government scholarship program in 2005, increasing more than 17-fold. But after more than a decade of growth, many universities with sizable Saudi populations are anticipating significant declines in new Saudi enrollments as the government has retooled the scholarship program. Steep drops in enrollments at the English language level, the initial landing point for most Saudi students coming to U.S. universities, signal further declines ahead.
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Presidential Health: Do We Know Enough About the Candidates?
Jonathan Moreno of the Perelman School of Medicine and the School of Arts & Sciences is mentioned for writing about vetting the health of presidential candidates.
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Inquirer Editorial: Penn State, Temple, and Football-induced Delusion
Perhaps concerned that Penn State's status as a national monument to sports-inspired mass delusion was not completely secure, more than 200 former football players recently petitioned university officials to reerect a bronze likeness of tarnished coaching legend Joe Paterno outside Beaver Stadium, which was removed four years ago as a sexual-abuse scandal shook State College.
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What Classics Professors Can Teach the Rest of Us
Joseph Farrell of the School of Arts & Sciences comments on classics professors regarding themselves as language teachers.
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Labor Board Ruling Could Allow Grad Students to Unionize
When Paul Katz, a fourth-year graduate student at Columbia University, is researching primary texts in the library, he considers himself a student. But when he is grading undergraduate papers or lecturing to students, he sees himself as an employee who should have the right to join a union. The National Labor Relations Board is expected to decide on his status this summer in a ruling that could pave the way for graduate students at private schools across the country to unionize.
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Executive Compensation at Private and Public Colleges
The Chronicle's executive-compensation package includes data on more than 1,200 chief executives at nearly 600 private colleges from 2008-13 and 250 public universities and systems from 2010-15. Updated in July, 2016, with 2014-15 public college data.
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Trump Backers On Campus Wage Lonely Battle
Vassar College economics student Ian Vasily cuts an unusual figure walking through campus in a hat bearing Donald Trump’s campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again.” Many students at the upstate New York school ask: “ ‘Are you actually supporting him?’ ” Mr. Vasily said, “ ‘Or is this ironic?’ ”At liberal-arts colleges in the Northeast and on many campuses nationwide, where left-wing activism often flourishes, there is little love lost between the presumptive Republican presidential nominee and student bodies.
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War of Words
Mark Liberman of the School of Arts & Sciences is cited for studying pitch and tone through comparisons of Republican presidential candidates’ speeches.
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America Really Is More Divided Than Ever
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center comments on mainstream media and says, “There’s a dominant polarization narrative that is driving coverage.”