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4/26
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
Penn In the News
Sudeep Bhatia of the School of Arts & Sciences talks about the science of why people love shopping at certain stores and focuses on Target.
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Colleges routinely force students with weak math skills to take remedial classes before enrolling in one that yields credit, a requirement that poses one of the biggest hurdles for disadvantaged Americans on the path to getting a degree. Many placed in remediation get disheartened or sidetracked and end up dropping out of college before they ever really start. New research suggests these students might fare better if they simply start in a college-level course and are given extra help on the side.
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John Quigley, former Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection secretary, is highlighted as a new Senior Fellow at the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy in the School of Design.
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John Landis of the School of Design writes about development in Sydney to make it a more attractive city in which to live.
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Debra Schilling Wolfe of the School of Social Policy & Practice writes about the usefulness of child-abuse reports.
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A new study shows that the fees public colleges and universities charge students to use campus facilities and cover operation costs have actually risen faster than tuition. Using Department of Education data, Seton Hall University professor Robert Kelchen found that inflation-adjusted fees grew faster than tuition at state schools between the 1999-2000 and 2012-2013 academic years. During that time, fees at community colleges soared 104 percent, while tuition climbed by 50 percent.
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Although the outcry over sexual assault on college campuses has intensified recently, the issue has a long history. February 1957: One of the first published studies about campus sexual assault, “Male Sex Aggression on a University Campus” appears in the American Sociological Review (Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 52-58). 1975: The term “date rape” is coined by Susan Brownmiller in reference to a dating situation in which “an aggressor may press his advantage to the point where pleasantness quickly turns to unpleasantness and more than the woman bargained for.” (Women’s Studies Encyclopedia, Vol.
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A superior court judge will decide in August whether the University of California, San Diego, can schedule a new disciplinary hearing for a student accused of cheating five years ago. Last year, a state appeals court ruled that UCSD officials violated the student's right to due process when they concealed the identity of a critical witness in the case. That witness is the person the student allegedly copied from during a midterm exam. The accused student and the appellate court argue that if the student knew who the other exam taker was, he could prove he did not cheat.
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Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education writes about her book Educating a Diverse Nation.
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Dean J. Larry Jameson and Gail Morrison of the Perelman School of Medicine, Amanda Aronoff of the Law School and Penn alums are quoted about a new joint-degree program.