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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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‘We All Felt Trapped’
Walter H. G. Lewin’s debut as a massive open online course instructor was announced with some fanfare: “Afraid of physics?” a press release asked in January 2013. “Do you hate it?
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The New Normal at Berkeley
California Governor Jerry Brown this week said the state’s flagship -- the University of California at Berkeley -- has closed its doors to “normal” people. The remark, one of Brown’s characteristically blunt assertions, taps into years of concern that the state’s most prestigious universities are increasingly out of reach for many Californians.
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‘Patriotism Abroad’
A core assumption of international education is that more conversations between domestic and foreign students will result in mutual understanding and more positive, friendly feelings. But what if those conversations, when they happen, result instead in retrenchment? What if they leave a bitter taste behind?
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Inclusive Dialogues
A student group at Mount Holyoke College has decided to cancel its annual performance of The Vagina Monologues, saying the play excludes the experiences of transgender women who don’t have a vagina.
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Lowering the Bar
As the number of students going to law school drops dramatically, law schools are increasingly competing for students with lower undergraduate grades and LSAT scores. Thomas M.
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Questioning Debit Card Deals
Federal consumer protection officials want colleges to more thoroughly vet the agreements they make with financial institutions to provide banking products on campus.
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Forgetting Title IX?
Recent and upcoming changes to National Collegiate Athletic Association rules -- including a new pilot program that will provide travel expenses to the families of basketball players who play in national championship games -- are rife with “serious Title IX complications,” a panel of gender equity experts said here Wednesday. “We’re seeing a sea change in college athletics and people are scrambling,” Erin Buzuvis,
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Declining the AAU Survey
More than a dozen of the nation's top research universities have declined an offer by the Association of American Universities to anonymously survey their students about the prevalence of sexual assault on campus. Fifteen of the AAU’s 60 U.S.
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A ‘Chilly Climate’ on Campus
Women and students of color continue to encounter psychologically damaging racism and sexism on college campuses, creating a climate where students struggle to graduate and are unsure who to turn to for help.
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Gendered Skepticism
You can’t argue with hard data about gender bias in science. Except that lots of people do, especially men in online comments about research on the topic.