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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Jonathan Zimmerman of the Graduate School of Education writes on gun control, mental-health resources and the role of the college campus.
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A new bill in the Wisconsin Legislature proposes barring a partnership that allows University of Wisconsin employees to work at Planned Parenthood, the Associated Press reports.
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Every other week, a group of administrators and staff members at Santa Monica College blocks off three hours to discuss students who have caused concern or raised suspicions on the community-college campus. Reports arrive from multiple avenues, but all end up here, in a library conference room where the college’s crisis-prevention team meets.
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Justin McDaniel of the School of Arts and Sciences is recognized as one of 10 innovative classroom trailblazers.
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Francesca Sinacori attended an orientation for parents of newly minted University of Massachusetts at Amherst students in June 2012. Her son had just enrolled as a freshman there, and though she was nervous about him leaving home, she felt comfortable. The college had its own police department with sworn officers — her son would be safe.
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The ads showed up in the feeds of thousands of Facebook users, and the timing of the sponsored posts — less than two months before the University of Virginia’s application deadline — was no accident.
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Jonathan Zimmerman of the Graduate School of Education writes about American filmmaker Ken Burns.
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Sigal Ben-Porath and Jonathan Zimmerman of the Graduate School of Education commented on political diversity on U.S. campuses.
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Earlier this year, Raymond J. Rice was chosen to be president of the University of Maine at Presque Isle. No search firm was used to recruit him for the position, vet his credentials, and determine if he was a good fit for the job. No search committee picked his résumé from a broad and diverse pool of finalists. In fact, he had not even applied for the job.
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The newly renovated Hill College House is mentioned.