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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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House Republicans Would Slow Spending on Pell Grants to Help Balance Budget
Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives unveiled a budget blueprint on Tuesday that would slow spending on Pell Grants as part of an effort to balance the federal budget.
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Despite Progress, Only 1 in 4 College Presidents Are Women
When Cornell University’s new president takes office, in July, half of the Ivy League’s colleges will be led by women. Brown University’s female leader is its second in a row. Over the past several years, a range of other institutions, including public flagships, liberal-arts colleges, historically black institutions, and community colleges have hired their first female presidents.
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2 Former Politicians, Now College Chiefs, Lament the Pace of Academe
Two of the nation’s highest-profile nontraditional university presidents expressed frustration on Monday with the slow pace of change in academe and lamented faltering public support for higher education. Mitchell E. Daniels Jr., president of Purdue University, and Janet A.
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Cut Through the Hype, and MOOCs Still Have Had a Lasting Impact
To some people in higher education, "MOOC" has become a punch line. The initial hype around so-called massive open online courses was so intense — promising a "tsunami" of change, according to one New York Times columnist, and a shuttering of most traditional colleges, according to one of the trend’s pioneers — that the reality was doomed to fall short.
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How One University Works Creatively to Fight Risky Drinking
Trying to reduce high-risk drinking among college students is a never-ending process. New freshmen arrive, hot spots change, staff members move on. All of that requires nimble thinking. While the University of Missouri at Columbia may not have solved the problem, its progress over time shows how years of dedication can pay off.
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Oklahoma President’s Swift Action on Racist Video Carries Risks
In the 48 hours since several University of Oklahoma fraternity members were caught on video singing a racist anthem, President David L. Boren has acted quickly. Just hours after the video emerged, he called the students "disgraceful" and said he hoped they would leave Norman. And on Tuesday he expelled two who had led the chant. In acting so decisively, Mr.
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Racism in Oklahoma Frat Video Is Widespread at Colleges, Researcher Says
The University of Oklahoma chapter of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity became the focus of outrage on Monday as a result of the online posting of a video that shows its members celebrating the chapter’s exclusion of African-American men in a song containing a racial slur and lynching reference.
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Behind One Research University’s Rise: Opportunism, Geography, and Good Fortune
For research institutions seeking assurances that they too can grow fast, Northeastern University may be a case of cold comfort. The institution owes its steady rise—from 163rd to 136th nationally in research spending over the past decade—to some deliberate strategies that should have wide application. But the underlying conditions were decades in the making.
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25 Years Later, Has Clery Made Campuses Safer?
A masked man pointed a gun at a student and commanded her to get in his car, not far from the center of the University of Connecticut’s campus. The young woman started to obey, but the man had forgotten to unlock the passenger-side door. She screamed and ran toward a university employee nearby. The masked driver sped away. The incident, in 2012, could have ended as a terrifying mystery, with an unknown attacker on the loose.
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How One University Unexpectedly Found Itself Ranked Among the ’25 Most Dangerous Colleges’
A colleague told Tom Delahunt the news: Drake University had been named one of the nation’s "25 Most Dangerous Colleges." In early February a website called FindTheBest.com published a ranking of institutions with the most reported crimes per student, based on an analysis of campus statistics. AOL, Fox News, and several other media outlets reproduced the list, on which Drake was No.