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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Yale Medical School’s Request to Expand Campus Program Online is Denied
The Yale University School of Medicine and 2U, an education technology company, have been denied accreditors’ permission to offer a physician assistant master’s degree online as an expansion of an existing campus degree program. Yale’s announcement of the program in March was heralded as evidence that even the nation’s most prestigious universities were moving toward online degrees.
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Student Coalition at Stanford Confronts Allegations of Anti-Semitism
The debate over what constitutes anti-Semitism has spilled into Stanford University’s student government election, with a Jewish student claiming that she was asked how her Judaism affects her view of divestment from Israel, morphing what was a contest about campus issues into a fierce discussion on identity and loyalties.
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Seven Allege Harassment by Yale Doctor at Clinic
For the second time in less than a year, the Yale School of Medicine is embroiled in charges of sexual harassment.
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Jeffrey Immelt Is Putting His Own Stamp on Jack Welch’s G.E.
Michael Useem of the Wharton School is quoted on the success of G.E.’s executive leaders.
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Where Are the Teachers of Color?
Richard M. Ingersoll of the Graduate School of Education and the School of Arts and Sciences comments on minority teachers in the U.S.
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‘Bad Faith,’ by Paul A. Offit
A new book from the Perelman School Medicine’s Paul A. Offit about how religious beliefs can undermine medical care is reviewed.
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When Work and Sleep Conflict, Work Wins
Mathias Basner of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted on the research between the type of work a person does and his or her sleep.
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Cooper Union Inquiry Puts Nonprofits on Notice
In what should be a ringing alarm for nonprofit boards across the country long accustomed to minimal scrutiny or accountability, Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman of New York has signaled that the laissez-faire approach to nonprofit governance is over.
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First-Generation Students Unite
Ana Barros grew up in a two-family house built by Habitat for Humanity, hard by the boarded-up buildings and vacant lots of Newark. Neither parent attended college, but she was a star student. With a 2200 on her SATs, she expected to fit in at Harvard.
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M.B.A. Programs That Get You Where You Want to Go
With some 13,000 graduate schools of business across the globe, the M.B.A. degree has clearly become a commodity. Even among elite schools, courses and case studies are pretty much water from the same well (i.e., finance, operations, marketing, accounting). So how do you choose? By using the rankings? Which ones? The Economist’s? Businessweek’s? The Financial Times’s?