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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education comments on the new administration’s relationship with black colleges and universities.
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On those rare occasions that a university searches for a new leader and doesn’t find one, you can expect a stink. When the University of Iowa declined to name any of four finalists its new president in 2006, it led to an uproar, including votes of no confidence in the university’s Board of Regents.
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After years under siege by activists who harassed him with violent threats and protests outside his home, the university scientist J. David Jentsch might be a chief beneficiary of the government's decision to shut down a federal website listing animals used in research.
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'The Great Shame of Our Profession'If it’s worth coining a term for the sort of work that a few other scholars and I are doing, we might call it "Narrative Historicism."
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The concept of microaggression has made the rare cultural journey from academic neologism to popular hashtag.
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Between the election of Donald J. Trump, the rise of the "alt-right," and a national discussion on the morality of punching neo-Nazis, scholars who study far-right groups have been getting a lot of phone calls.
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As reports of the impact of the Trump administration’s travel restrictions emerge, one population in higher education seems disproportionately affected: Iranian academics and students.
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International students and scholars across the country found themselves in limbo following an executive order that President Trump signed on Friday banning citizens of seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the United States.
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"No hate, no fear, everyone is welcome here."The chant swelled across a candle-lit crowd of hundreds of people at West Virginia University late Monday. Students, professors, and others had gathered on campus for a vigil to support Muslims, refugees, and members of the university’s international community.
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Stay calm, you’re safe here. That’s the message American colleges have been trying to send to international students in the wake of an executive order, signed Friday night by President Trump, that imposes a travel ban on visitors — including students and other people with valid visas — from seven largely Muslim countries.