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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
Penn In the News
Joni Finney of the Graduate School of Education says that Pennsylvania’s fierce competition for students stems from its large private higher education sector and declining numbers of Pennsylvanians.
Penn In the News
Penn is lauded for organizing a University-Assisted Community Schools Network and for offering roughly 80 academically-based community service courses through the Netter Center for Community Partnerships, with a quote from the Center’s founding director Ira Harkavy.
Penn In the News
Corinne Low of the Wharton School comments on calls to take a stand for abortion rights by changing academic conferences in states that ban or restrict the procedure.
Penn In the News
Karen Weaver of the Graduate School of Education estimated that UCLA and USC each stood to make as much as $30 million more per year as members of the Big Ten.
Penn In the News
Drawing on pre-pandemic data, Robert Zemsky of the Graduate School of Education predicted that 20% of higher education institutions were in danger of shuttering.
Penn In the News
In a recent presentation, Jamiella Brooks of Penn’s Center for Teaching and Learning and Yale’s Julie McGurk proposed that educators reframe the concept of “rigor.” They argued that faculty members often look for evidence of rigor in the wrong places and overlook the inequities underlying inadequate student outcomes.
Penn In the News
Laura W. Perna of the Graduate School of Education comments on how stripping free tuition from the bill is a lost opportunity to increase college access on a monumental scale.
Penn In the News
Nelson Flores of the Graduate School of Education said that instead of debating whether or not an institution should use the word “Latinx,” people should try to understand why the word is used.
Penn In the News
Rebecca Stein, executive director of Penn’s Online Learning Initiative, offered two theories as to why some students report doing more work during the pandemic, in spite of professors saying they’ve lightened workloads. “The first is that students don’t have their usual busy social and extracurricular life. You would think this would give them more time. But rather, it makes them feel that all their time is focused on study.” The second explanation, she said, is that “students depend much more on their peers as scaffolding for their learning then we realized.”
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Dean John L. Jackson Jr. of the Annenberg School for Communication participated in a conversation about how colleges can be more inclusive and equitable. “Difficult as it is, as challenging as it always has been, this is something we have to imagine,” he said. “The alternative is far too dark.”