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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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AP Builds New Multi-format Team For Education News Coverage
A new national beat team has been established at The Associated Press to elevate coverage of issues in education, the news cooperative announced Monday. The team will aim to generate more coverage off the news and explore trends affecting students of all ages, using text, video, photos and interactive multi-format storytelling about how trends in education are affecting children and families across America and around the world.
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Olympic Champion Hughes Goes for Academic Gold at Penn
Law student Sarah Hughes is highlighted for her accomplishments academically and as an Olympic figure skater.
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As Housing Projects Starts, Another Battle Flares on a Revolutionary War Site in Princeton
Excavation work began this month on a privately owned portion of a Revolutionary War battlefield that historical activists are trying to preserve from development by a prominent academic institute. The Princeton Battlefield Society is hoping to halt the plans of the Institute of Advanced Study, which is starting work to build faculty housing.
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Students: Rename Building Called ‘Lynch’ After Ex-president
Students at a small Pennsylvania college are demanding that administrators rename a building called "Lynch Memorial Hall" because of the racial overtones of the word "lynch." The building is named after Clyde A. Lynch, who was president of Lebanon Valley College from 1932 until his death in 1950. Students want school officials to either rename the building entirely or add Lynch's first name and middle initial, saying the word recalls the public executions of black men by white mobs in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
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Growing Push to Expose More Students to Computer Science
Yasmin Kafai of the Graduate School of Education comments on the importance of integrating computer science into schools.
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College Presidents Defend Importance of Free Speech
As debates about race and other social issues flare on campuses, college presidents are increasingly intervening to draw a line when cultural sensitivity conflicts with freedom of speech. At schools including Yale, Williams College and Wesleyan University, leaders have in recent weeks taken steps to assert the importance of the free expression of ideas, even those that some might find objectionable.
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Experts: Black Studies Programs Facing Campus Challenges
Protests by University of Missouri black students that forced the school's administration to address racism and other problems mirror efforts decades ago that led many majority white schools to create African-American studies and other programs. But those programs and some ethnic studies departments across the country are struggling with funding, low-staffing and dwindling student enrollment, according to some experts.
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A Guide to Talking With Children About Paris Attacks
Steven Berkowitz of the Perelman School of Medicine offers his advice on how to discuss the violence in Paris with children.
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Critics Cry Foul After GOP Debate
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center critiques a question John Harwood posed to Donald Trump during the third Republican presidential debate.
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A Multigenerational Hit: Student Debt Traps Parents and Kids
Peter Cappelli of the Wharton School is cited for his research on student debt.