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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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How Race and College Intersected in the Election
A stark divide separated how white people voted in this presidential election: whether or not they had earned a college degree. Two-thirds of white working-class voters backed Donald J. Trump. Among white voters with college degrees, his support dropped by 18 percentage points, a gap more than twice as large as those seen in election results for his two immediate Republican predecessors.
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How Students Play a Supporting Role in Campus Labor Movements
In October, when the Harvard University dining-hall employees’ union went on strike, students joined workers with picket signs and staged a sit-in of the lobby where negotiations were taking place. And before the strike, medical students challenged Harvard’s health-care proposals for workers. After nearly three weeks on strike, the workers finally reached an agreement with Harvard administrators, and the collection of students who helped catalyze the workers’ strike joined them in calling the fight a success.
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Could Colleges Become Sanctuaries for Undocumented Immigrants?
Xavier Maciel, a first-year transfer student at Pomona College, was in a crowded room as the results of the presidential election came in. He was born in the United States, but his parents and sister were not, and he stared at the television screen in disbelief as Hillary Clinton conceded to Donald J. Trump. While campaigning, Mr.
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How Minority-serving Institutions Are Responding to Trump’s Win – and Making Their Pitch
Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education expressed her concerns about president-elect Donald Trump targeting the White House initiatives that were created to support minority-serving institutions.
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Awaiting Trump, Scientists Are Caught Between Hope and Fear
As with many other Americans now warily imagining the reality of a President Donald J. Trump, the nation’s research scientists are not sure what to expect.
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Here’s a Rundown of the Latest Campus-Climate Incidents Since Trump’s Election
Organizations that track hate crimes have seen a rise in reports since the presidential election. The Southern Poverty Law Center has recorded more than 400 incidents since then, and even though colleges are perceived as liberal oases, they have not been immune from such incidents. There have been several dozen instances of reported hate speech or violence against minorities on campuses or involving college students since last week, many of which involved references to President-elect Donald J. Trump. Here’s the latest:
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Villanova Asks Professors to Discuss Postelection Tensions in Class
A spate of racially charged and hate-motivated incidents has roiled campuses since Donald J. Trump was elected president last week. Villanova University officials are among the institutional leaders who have condemned such events, and on Monday they went a step further, urging faculty members to talk with students during class about the incidents.
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The New Intellectuals
One night this spring, the New York Institute for the Humanities hosted a gathering to discuss, as the title of the event put it, "new public intellectuals." At the front of a crowded room, seated at a rectangular table, were three paragons of this ascendant breed — Nikil Saval, co-editor of n+1; Sarah Leonard, a senior editor at The Nation; and Jon Baskin, co-editor of The Point. All are under 40, not pursuing careers in academe, and integral to what the event’s organizers hailed as a "renaissance in cultural journalism."
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How Voters’ Education Levels Factored Into Trump’s Win
On the heels of Donald J. Trump’s surprise victory in the presidential election, experts are, like the rest of us, still working to make sense of exactly what happened. A natural place to turn for insight is exit polls — even in an election cycle that has cast serious doubt on the polling industry. "Exit polls are pretty good," said John T. Scott, professor and chair of political science at the University of California at Davis — certainly better than those conducted ahead of an election. "They’re not perfect." They’re also the first data that’s available.
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On Election Night, Colleges Watch as a Glass Ceiling Stays Put
They arrived at the field house full of optimism — hundreds of Wellesley students, alumni, and faculty members, ready to celebrate the election of one of their own as the first female president of the United States. They wore stickers that read “Nasty Wellesley Woman” and “Making the Impossible Possible,” a reference to the commencement speech that Hillary Clinton delivered there as a senior, in 1969. “This is going to be the most fun this campus has seen in 100 years,” predicted a giddy 1998 graduate on the bus to the election-night watch party.