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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
Penn In the News
Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education suggests that nothing can be separated from politics as tensions rise between the current administration and historically black colleges and universities.
Penn In the News
Students aren’t always comfortable talking about race, especially at the beginning of the semester in a classroom led by a professor they don’t know yet.
Penn In the News
Francesca Russello Ammon of the School of Design pens an article about the government’s role in segregating America.
Penn In the News
Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education is highlighted for creating the Pathways to the Professoriate program.
Penn In the News
According to communication-studies department leaders at the University of California at Los Angeles, the story of why Keith A. Fink lost his job isn’t an especially interesting one: He was a part-time lecturer, and his teaching wasn’t up to par.
Penn In the News
Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education comments on historically black colleges and universities using executive search firms to find college leaders.
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Jonathan Zimmerman of the Graduate School of Education writes about Harvard’s decision to retract offers to admitted students after they had posted inappropriate memes in an online group chat.
Penn In the News
This fall the University of Missouri at Columbia will welcome its smallest freshman class in nearly two decades. As of this month, just 4,009 first-time freshmen had made enrollment deposits, a decline of 35 percent from the 2015 class of 6,191 students.
Penn In the News
The Trump administration’s removal of several academic experts from a scientific advisory board at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has renewed concern about the government’s commitment to fact-based policy making.
Penn In the News
Four years ago, the Florida Legislature changed the trajectory of developmental education across the state’s 28 open-access colleges by making remedial classes optional for most students. Enrollment in the classes plunged, and colleges set to work revamping and beefing up academic supports for students who weren’t ready for college-level classes.