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4/26
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Jonah Berger of the Wharton School is cited for a collaborative study about the habits of people who share content online.
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Driven by negative attitudes toward women and misperceptions about rape and consent, more than half of athletes surveyed for a new study say they have pressured women -- through physical and verbal threats -- into having sex with them. And it’s not just big-time basketball and football players who are guilty of sexual coercion, which is defined as “any unwanted oral, vaginal or anal penetration as a result of verbal or physical pressure, including rape.” The athletes included in the study were mostly those who play recreational, not intercollegiate, sports.
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The California State University System has named women to lead campuses in five straight presidential searches in 2016, nearly doubling the number of women presidents at the 23-campus system in what some hope signals an accelerating trend toward diverse higher education leadership. The latest hiring for the 475,000-student university system came May 25, when it named Ellen N. Junn the next president of California State University at Stanislaus. Junn is currently at Cal State Dominguez Hills, where she is provost and vice president for academic affairs.
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When James (Jerry) Murphy retired as a professor of English and rhetoric at the University of California at Davis, his plan, he says, was "not to work very hard." That may be what some people expect of emeritus faculty members, but Mr. Murphy’s idea of retirement was a bit busier than that. Since he retired, in 1991, he has written, edited, or revised six books, been guest editor of a journal, lectured at colleges large and small, and occasionally served on dissertation committees.
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For 15 years, until 2013, the Arizona Board of Regents collected fees from university students in the state on behalf of the Arizona Students' Association, funds that supported the group's work. But that year, the board -- aggravated by the association's active lobbying for a ballot initiative that would have boosted education funding -- first suspended collection of the student fees, and then (in response to criticism that it had acted politically) said it would collect fees only from students who opted to pay them.
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The 2015-16 academic year has seen numerous shootings, some deadly, of students, and a national debate over guns on campus. On Wednesday, with the academic year winding down, an engineering professor was shot and killed in the engineering building at the University of California at Los Angeles. Reports of a morning shooting at UCLA left many on campus terrified, and students running for cover. In the end, a professor was dead in what is being described by local news sources as a murder-suicide.
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Urs Giger of the School of Veterinary Medicine comments on dog origin and domestication.
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In recent weeks, the first outlines of a culture shift in college football have begun to appear. Most obviously, Baylor University fired Head Coach Art Briles last week after an independent investigation found the university had mishandled accusations of sexual assault against his players. For a university to fire a coach like Mr. Briles, who had almost single-handedly made Baylor a college football superpower – was “ a milestone,” wrote ESPN columnist Ivan Maisel. “Someone in the gridiron-industrial complex stood up and said some standards are more important than winning.”
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Dorothy Roberts of the Law School and the School of Arts & Sciences comments on a study about the genetic makeup of African-Americans in comparison to other groups and says, “We can’t think…that knowing more about each group’s genetic makeup is going to necessarily lead to reducing the differences in health between these groups.”
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Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education comments on the performance funding models and historically black colleges and universities.