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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
Penn In the News
A group of alumni have announced plans to return their Liberty University degrees as a protest against President Donald Trump.
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As college students were identified as participants in a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., earlier this month, there seemed to be little that their institutions could do about it. Although they received calls from other students and communities to discipline or expel students involved, Washington State University and the University of Nevada, Reno, were bound to protect their students' First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and assembly.
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Peter Cappelli of the Wharton School comments on the advantages to companies offering tuition-benefit assistance.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions delivered a speech in Las Vegas last week pushing a policy point that has been a staple of President Donald Trump’s recent rhetoric: sanctuary cities -- municipalities or localities that prohibit local law enforcement from enforcing or cooperating with federal immigration law -- are a haven for undocumented immigrants and thus hotbeds for criminals and illegal activity that would otherwise be punished. Sessions even cited an academic study to prove his point.
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Faculty members at the University of Wisconsin at Madison want to kill a state budget proposal that would ban the university system’s Board of Regents from requiring the system president and campus chancellors and vice chancellors be academics themselves.
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Joseph Barber of Career Services writes about the importance of nurturing the people in your career network.
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Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education comments on managing external consulting and public speaking while retaining a full-time faculty appointment.
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Yvonne Romero da Silva of Admissions explains the “committee-based” system for reviewing college applications.
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Colleges and universities across the United States are spending tens of millions dollars to create and operate emergency communications systems. Yet as officials at the University of Texas at Austin discovered recently during a deadly knife attack on the campus, students have their own informal system for communicating in an emergency.
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Peter Eckel of the Graduate School of Education co-writes an article about the lack of curiosity of college and university boards.