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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Specializations, Specialized
Massive open online course providers such as Coursera have long pointed to the benefits of the data collected by the platforms, saying it will help colleges and universities understand how students learn online.
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Suicide Clusters
It’s Mardi Gras week in New Orleans, and students at Tulane University are busy prepping for the weekend’s celebrations. But for some students, getting into the party spirit this year is proving difficult. "Students are trying to stay positive, and of course many of them are excited for Mardi Gras weekend,” Dusty Porter, Tulane’s vice president of student affairs, said.
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Rating Release Draws Nearer
Officials with the U.S.
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The New Bachelor’s Payoff
Doubts about the labor-market returns of bachelor’s degrees, while never serious, can be put to rest.
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Report: Colleges That Divest Will Lose Money
The University of California Press is building a new open-access publishing model around the idea that reviewers and researchers in the hard sciences can support new forms of scholarly communication by "paying it forward."
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'Paying It Forward' Publishing
A new report funded by the Independent Petroleum Association of America -- argues that colleges that sell holdings in fossil fuel companies are likely to pay a financial price for doing so.
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In FAFSA Simplification, Complexity
It seems, all of a sudden, that there’s a rush among policy makers in Washington to chop off questions from the 108-question Free Application for Federal Student Aid, known as the FAFSA.
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Roll Up Your Sleeves
The outbreak of measles in the United States is leading some institutions to change rules or practices. Meanwhile, cases of norovirus have spread to a third college in Virginia. The two diseases have drawn more attention to the risk of epidemics on campuses, where masses of students and employees work and study together and, at residential campuses, live in close quarters.
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Waiting for the FCC
College and university chief information officers are unsure of what to make of the Federal Communications Commission’s hard line on blocking personal wireless hot spots and whether it applies to higher education. Nearly a year after the issue emerged, the agency still has yet to clarify.
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Fragile Mental Health
The emotional health of incoming freshmen is at its lowest point in at least three decades, a new survey shows, with students reporting that they're spending more time studying and less time socializing with friends.