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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
Penn In the News
Campus police officers across Texas would have unfettered authority to check the immigration status of students who have been detained for minor violations such as rolling through a red light or drinking under age, under legislation the governor is expected to sign any day.
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Saying Purdue University’s purchase of Kaplan University violated “both common-sense educational practice and respect for the Purdue faculty,” the university’s Faculty Senate voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to ask Purdue’s leaders to reconsider the deal.
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The National Labor Relations Board has declared non-tenure-track faculty members at Vanderbilt University eligible to form separate collective-bargaining units for their respective schools, marking the first time that faculty members will be eligible to gain union representation in such a piecemeal manner.
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Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education comments on the role of boards of trustees at historically black colleges and universities.
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Jonathan Zimmerman of the Graduate School of Education critiques certain examples of cultural appropriation.
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Dean Eric Furda and Yvonne Romero da Silva of Admissions are quoted about a new process for reviewing admission applications.
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Jonathan Zimmerman of the Graduate School of Education writes about how race and ethnicity have always been factors in college admissions decision-making.
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First-generation college students face a well-known set of obstacles, from financial to social, before ever stepping foot on campus. A coalition of student groups from elite institutions, in coordination with 1vyG, a first-generation college student network, is setting its sights on removing just one of them.
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Last week’s confirmation of Betsy DeVos as secretary of education has raised alarms among many academics, who worry that the billionaire philanthropist might do harm to higher education.
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It is not often that the top lawyer at a university files an open-records request for a professor’s emails. As uncommon as that is, it gets stranger when the office charged with fulfilling the request is supervised by the person who filed it.