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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
Penn In the News
Ezekiel Dixon-Román of the School of Social Policy & Practice is interviewed about his new book, Inheriting Possibility: Social Reproduction and Quantification in Education.
Penn In the News
In a phone briefing with college lawyers Thursday, Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Candice Jackson said that colleges can use informal resolutions such as mediation to resolve Title IX complaints -- even those involving sexual assaults.
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A little more than a week after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico at Category 4 strength, the extent of the damage to the University of Puerto Rico’s 11 campuses remains unclear. With telecommunications in the U.S. territory still knocked out, roads in places impassable and gasoline in short supply, Darrel Hillman, the university’s interim president, said a lack of communication between the campuses has been a problem.
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Stefan Al of the School of Design talks about shopping malls and whether or not they are a dying breed.
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Bernadette Birt of the Wharton School is quoted about the executive EMBA program in San Francisco.
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Efforts to diversify the faculty may not be focusing enough on key areas, namely math-based fields -- especially when it comes to black faculty members. And such efforts haven’t led to any premium in pay for those hired to contribute to campus diversity.
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Cambridge University Press reversed course Monday and restored access to more than 300 journal articles it had blocked from its website in China, after coming under heavy criticism from scholars for caving to a request from Chinese government censors.
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Vincent E. Price had been the president of Duke University for 49 days when a statue of Robert. E. Lee was taken out of the entrance to the university chapel this weekend.
Penn In the News
Duke University on Saturday announced that it had removed a statue of Robert E. Lee from the entrance to the university chapel. On Sunday night, the University of Texas at Austin announced it would remove statues of Lee and three other Confederate leaders from a prominent campus location.
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A group of alumni have announced plans to return their Liberty University degrees as a protest against President Donald Trump.