5/18
Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Debate on Michigan President's Election Statement
Hundreds of University of Michigan students have signed a petition criticizing President Mark Schlissel for, in their view, going too far in criticizing Donald Trump, The Detroit Free Press reported.
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Cornell Names New President
Cornell University named Martha E. Pollack its next president Monday, tapping the University of Michigan provost to take over in April, about a year after former president Elizabeth Garrett died of cancer.
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Shaun Harper of the Graduate School of Education writes about how the election outcome is a lesson from Trump voters and people of color to higher education.
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‘This Election Is Catastrophic’
One of the major follow-up stories to President-elect Donald Trump’s stunning victory this week is -- rightly -- how the media didn’t see it coming. But the outcome sneaked up on other groups, as well -- perhaps academics most of all. While some professors supported Trump leading up to the election, academe swung overwhelmingly toward Hillary Clinton and, it seems, expected her to win.
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Campus Sexual Assault in a Trump Era
With Donald Trump winning the presidential election on Tuesday -- and with Republicans maintaining control of both the Senate and House of Representatives -- victims’ advocates worry that the White House’s five-year push to combat campus sexual assault may end with President Obama’s tenure. Through detailed guidance documents and investigations at more than 200 institutions, the Obama administration made preventing campus sexual assault a signature issue of its Education Department.
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Loss of International Students?
On Election Night a correspondent from The Wall Street Journal shared on Twitter an image of a young man in a kaffiyeh watching presidential election results. The man in the image is standing up, one hand on the handle of a suitcase as though he could leave at any moment. “Saudi students in the U.S. right now,” the tweet said. The election of Donald J. Trump to the presidency left some in higher education worried that international students could be deterred or restricted from studying in the U.S. It also fueled concerns that students who came to the U.S.
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Endowments Ride Out Election Uncertainty
The University of Texas Investment Management Co. did its homework heading into the presidential election, studying the last 16 national elections and their effects on financial markets. Then it decided not to hedge against any outcome. “Because there is so much uncertainty, it is hard to know what to judge,” said Mark Warner, the interim CEO and chief investment officer at UTIMCO. “We just decided, while it is an important thing and will have market impacts and we’re all keenly attuned to it, direct action on our part was not something we felt was necessary at this point.”
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‘Supposed to Be Our Brothers’
For years, Harvard University's men's soccer team created an annual "scouting report" in which they evaluated, in sexually explicit terms, the freshman members of the women's soccer team. When Harvard officials learned that the tradition had continued up until this year, they canceled the rest of the men's season. Now, Harvard officials are investigating reports that the men's cross-country team created a spreadsheet about members of the female cross-country team using similar language.
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The New Congress and Higher Ed
Republicans maintained control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate in Tuesday’s election as Donald Trump was elected president -- shocking Democrats who expected to win the presidency if not the upper chamber of Congress as well. However, leaders of both parties have said that a reauthorization of the Higher Education Act will be a top priority in the next Congress and will provide an opportunity to tackle a host of policy issues affecting postsecondary education.
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Push for Year-round Pell
A large group of congressional Democrats last week joined a chorus of higher education associations and consumer advocates who have been pressuring appropriators to preserve funding for the Pell Grant program and restore year-round use of the federal grants. The Pell Grant is one of the rare higher education programs that receives wide bipartisan support, from Democrats like Virginia Representative Bobby Scott to Republicans like Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander and North Carolina Representative Virginia Foxx.