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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Academics nationwide this weekend swiftly condemned an executive order signed by President Trump that, among other things, bars citizens of seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the United States for at least 90 days.
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When Elizabeth A. Bennion asked students in her political-controversies course to discuss gun control, the conversation could have dissolved into fractious debate. Her class included strong supporters and staunch opponents of gun-control legislation.
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Shaun Harper of the Graduate School of Education describes the “gift of Trump” and campus race relations.
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Ezekiel Emanuel of the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School is profiled.
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The ENIAC computer is highlighted. Also, Peter Struck of the School of Arts & Sciences is mentioned and pictured as a lecturer for a massive open online course via Coursera.
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Jonathan Zimmerman of the Graduate School of Education writes about free speech, particularly on college campuses.
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In the past few weeks, Xavier Maciel, a first-year transfer student at Pomona College, has on more than one occasion woken up to over a dozen emails from college professors across the country. After the presidential election, he created a spreadsheet to track which colleges were circulating petitions to become "sanctuary campuses" — an idea similar to sanctuary cities, where officials will not cooperate with the deportation efforts of federal immigration authorities.
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Colleges in every sector of higher education are threatening the independence of their student journalists, says a report released on Thursday by advocacy groups focused on free speech or academic freedom. The report describes several recent public controversies — including those at Mt. Saint Mary’s University, in Maryland; Northern Michigan University; and Wesleyan University, in Connecticut — in which student newspapers or their advisers complained of coming under undue pressure to restrict content.
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A presentation in March at a summit for college administrators caught Peggy Fitch’s eye. As Title IX coordinator and vice president for student development at Central College in Iowa, she had noticed a numerical discrepancy between the sexual assaults reported to her office and those that showed up in the institution’s campus-climate and safety data.
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At a recent town-hall meeting in Tucson, local business leaders took up education in the state of Arizona. They examined state support for public colleges — among the lowest in the country — and fretted about their future work force, says Gary D. Rhoades, a professor of higher education at the University of Arizona. They had even gone to the statehouse to meet with legislators, he heard at the town hall.