4/22
Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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At Harvard, All-Female Groups Claim Collateral Damage in Crackdown on Final Clubs
After Harvard University announced plans on Friday to bar members of single-gender social clubs from leadership positions and scholarship endorsements from the college, many of Harvard’s women fought back. The policy is an attempt to crack down on Harvard’s historic "final clubs," which are not officially affiliated with the university. The new rule, however, does not single out those groups, taking in the campus’s unaffiliated five fraternities and four sororities as well.
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Affordable Options for College Students Are Disappearing Fast
Joni Finney of the Graduate School of Education is quoted about studying college affordability.
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For Cholesterol Study Volunteer, an Unsettling Discovery in a Science Paper: Herself
Daniel Rader of the Perelman School of Medicine is mentioned for studying why higher levels of “good” cholesterol may not be good for certain people with a rare mutation.
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The World’s Most Valuable Brands 2016
David Reibstein of the Wharton School says, “Brands get their value from how customers perceive them.”
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The Secrets of Backing Out on Plans With Grace
Sudeep Bhatia of the School of Arts & Sciences explains “construal level theory.”
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Civic Learning
Starting this fall, California State University at Los Angeles students must take two courses in civic learning as part of their general education requirements. A combination of workshops, service learning and problem-solving assignments, the courses are designed, the university said, to encourage students to use what they’ve learned at Cal State to create solutions to real-world issues by working with local nonprofit organizations. Faculty will develop assignments and projects using an online module created by the Association of College and University Educators.
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How Younger Workers Can Get Ahead
Adam Grant of the Wharton School shares tips for workplace success, particularly for millennials and other younger workers.
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Audio: More Than a Mistress: Madame De Pompadour Was a Minister of the Arts
Joan DeJean of the School of Arts & Sciences shares her thoughts on Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, French King Louis XV’s chief mistress.
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What’s Right and Wrong About Research Universities
Several weeks ago, I completed five bracing years in Washington, D.C., as president of the Association of American Universities. What have I learned about research universities and their place in American life?
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GBI’s Keenan Correct About Decriminalizing Low-level Pot Possession
Kermit Roosevelt of the Law School comments on the city of Clarkson, Ga. making marijuana possession a low-level offense.