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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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The Focus Group That Wasn’t
Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education shares her thoughts on a political science professor who made misleading references to a focus group.
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‘The Other One Percent’
Devesh Kapur of the School of Arts & Sciences is cited for being co-author of a new book, The Other One Percent: Indians in America.
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What ‘Grit’ Means for College Educators
Angela Duckworth of the School of Arts & Sciences is cited for her new book, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance.
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What’s in a Name?
Since the election, leaders of dozens of colleges and universities across the country have faced protests and petition drives calling on them to declare their institutions “sanctuary campuses” for undocumented immigrant students. The calls have come from students, alumni, faculty and staff who are concerned about the prospect of stepped-up enforcement of immigration laws under a Donald J.
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In the Line of Fire
Hundreds of police officers and police dogs lined the street outside Detroit’s Ford Field on Wednesday to honor the Wayne State University police officer who was shot and killed last week. Inside the stadium, the officer’s body laid in a casket as one of his own police dogs stood nearby. The officer, Collin Rose, was shot and killed Nov. 22 while conducting a traffic stop in a neighborhood near campus.
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HHS Pick Longtime Foe of Stem Cell Studies
President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that Representative Tom Price, a Georgia Republican, is his pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. The selection was widely interpreted as a signal of Trump’s intentions to deliver on his campaign promise to repeal the Affordable Care Act. But academics may be more likely to focus on Price's past opposition to embryonic stem cell research and his skepticism about the scientific consensus around climate change.
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When Presidents Talk Politics
As student concerns and campus protests play out in the wake of Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election, college and university presidents grapple with the question of whether they should weigh in -- and what they should say. Some presidents chose to speak quickly and forcefully, attacking perceived falsehoods from the campaign and assuring students feeling anxiety in the wake of an election that many see as laying bare bigotry, white supremacy and xenophobia in the United States. Take, for example, Columbia University President Lee C.
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Values for the Trump Era
Academics (and journalists) have been accused in the aftermath of the presidential election of being “out of touch” with the American electorate. At the same time, academics have played important leadership roles in eras and places in which free expression has come under threat -- as some believe it is now in the U.S. What is the role of the academic in such an era, or, at the very least, what are the academic’s obligations to his or her profession, campus and government?
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Separate and Not Equal
When it comes to gaining tenure, are minority professors held to higher -- or even shifting -- standards, compared to their white colleagues? That’s the question asked by numerous challenges to negative tenure decisions nationwide in recent years. It’s also the premise behind a new book that’s attracting attention for articulating what some see as a longstanding but heretofore unspoken rule of academe.
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Contronym and Controversy
I do not live in a bubble, and one of the ways I work things out is to write. So I have put this piece together as a means of expiating my own grief over the results of the recent presidential election. At first, I wanted to keep my mourning private, especially as my current role as a college president requires me to tread carefully and not give an institutional patina to my personal thoughts.