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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
Penn In the News
Ethan Mollick of the Wharton School is quoted about the role of crowdfunding consultants.
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Dean Geoffrey Garrett, Eric Bradlow, Adam Grant and MBA student Daniel McAuley of the Wharton School comment on the school offering business analytics.
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The University of Maine at Orono was looking to increase its enrollment. And like many public colleges around the country, it especially wanted to bring in more out-of-state students. But before Joel Wincowski came in as interim vice president for enrollment management, in August, Maine was relying on standard solutions from consultants to guide pricing and branding efforts, he says. Mr. Wincowski, a former enrollment manager now working at a firm that places interim higher-education leaders (his previous stints include St.
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In the eyes of the law, private colleges are just like charities. Just like any other nonprofit, private colleges and universities provide a public service. And because they serve the public good, they are exempt from certain federal and state taxes. But that rationale doesn’t always sit well. The wealthiest universities have tens of billions of dollars in their endowments -- so why, critics wonder, shouldn’t they pay taxes?
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Eric Schelter of the School of Arts & Sciences is quoted about developing a method to recycle rare earth magnets.
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Robert Bonacci of the Perelman School of Medicine co-authors an article about HIV policy in the United States.
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Wendell Pritchett and third-year student Max Weiss of the Law School contribute their thoughts on the funding crisis of the School District of Philadelphia in comparison to peer cities.
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Angela Duckworth of the School of Arts & Sciences is highlighted for her new book, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance.
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Mark Cuban is known for mouthing off. Typically it’s from courtside at a Dallas Mavericks basketball game (he owns the NBA team), from a leather armchair on the set of the hit ABC show Shark Tank (he’s a regular), or from the op-ed pages of the business press (where he often rails against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission). His natural milieu isn’t a wonky Twitter debate about education policy. But on a recent Saturday night, when you’d think one of the country’s best-known billionaires might have more entertaining ways to spend his time, Mr.
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Katherina Rosqueta of the School of Social Policy & Practice’s Center for High Impact Philanthropy talks about the impact of offering matching money to organizations.