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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
Penn In the News
Joseph Farrell of the School of Arts & Sciences comments on classics professors regarding themselves as language teachers.
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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.
Penn In the News
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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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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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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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.”
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Stewart Friedman of the Wharton School is quoted about the evolution of the “out of office” message employees use.
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Before this summer, Shaan Kewalramani, an incoming freshman at Texas A&M University at College Station, did not dwell on the fact that people with concealed-carry licenses would be able to bring their weapons into classrooms and dormitories at his new home in the fall. Then he noticed a thread in a Facebook group for new students. “What’s everyone’s view on gun control?" the post asked. In the comments, Mr. Kewalramani added his own simple insight: "No guns," he wrote, earning a handful of likes.
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Frederic Bushman of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on fecal transplants.
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A progressive political action committee announced this week that multiple Democrats in high-profile Senate races would back calls for debt-free college in the wake of Bernie Sanders’s endorsement of Hillary Clinton as the Democratic presidential nominee. The Progressive Change Campaign Committee, a political action committee focused on backing left-leaning policy ideas and candidates, announced that eight Democratic candidates for Senate were getting behind the goal of debt-free college.