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U.S. Urges Colleges to Rethink Questions About Criminal Records
The Obama administration is urging universities and colleges to re-evaluate how questions about an applicant’s criminal history are used in the admissions process, part of an effort to remove barriers to education, employment and housing for those with past convictions, in many cases for minor crimes. Education Secretary John B. King Jr.
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A False Report, With Consequences
They boarded the bus in the early morning hours. They were three black students, surrounded by white passengers. As they headed onto the State University of New York at Albany's main campus, the fight broke out. When they got off the bus, the three students called the police. They said that the other passengers attacked them, punching them in the head and yelling racial slurs. In the months since, the incident gained national attention. In early February, the students and their allies organized a rally. Hillary Clinton weighed in on Twitter.
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Can Consumers Do Anything About Rising Cancer Drug Prices?
Mark Pauly of the Wharton School pens an op-ed reviewing the reasons behind rising drug prices and whether consumer action can influence pricing.
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Student Activists Tell Colleges: To Improve Racial Climate, Look Hard at Tenure
When Jennifer R. Warren was denied tenure last year by Rutgers University at New Brunswick, she believed she had ample grounds to protest the decision. Ms. Warren, an assistant professor of communications who is black, said her school had discouraged her from writing a book and had pushed her to change her teaching style, causing her student evaluations to drop. Her annual reviews, she said, had offered no indication that she wasn’t on the right track. Student activists saw a force underlying those issues: institutional racism.
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Melanoma During Pregnancy Common but Treatable
Lynn Schuchter of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on how common it is for women to be diagnosed with melanoma during pregnancies.
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Black Americans See Gains in Life Expectancy
Samuel Preston of the School of Arts & Sciences comments on the increased life expectancy rates of black Americans.
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A Penn Psychologist Uses the ‘Hard Thing Rule’ to Teach Her Kids to Take Control of Their Success
Angela Duckworth of the School of Arts & Sciences describes the “Hard Thing Rule” in her new book.
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Lenders Get Burned Betting on Ivy Leaguers
For online lenders, the business model of targeting Ivy League student borrowers is starting to backfire. The problem isn’t that graduates of these and other prestigious universities are deadbeats. Rather, these customers, who the lenders covet for their superlow default rates, are proving savvier and more anti-debt than anticipated.
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Top Choice
A dozen teenagers in nametags sit waiting, some nervous, knees bouncing beneath their desks. At 9:30 a.m. that Friday in April, Father Robert Scholla takes a seat among them. After introducing himself as a faculty fellow, he picks up the assigned text and asks for their thoughts about it. One young woman, hand raised halfway, speaks right up. Then another chimes in: "I would add to that…." The competition, polite but intense, is on. Nearly 50 high-school seniors have come to Santa Clara University seeking a prize.
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The Journey of a Non-traditional Student
Kemuel Benyehudah of the Graduate School of Education writes about his experience as a non-traditional student.