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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
Penn In the News
In 2004, Jeannette Jones landed a tenure-track job at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln — a joint appointment in the Institute for Ethnic Studies and the history department. She had her career all planned out: Teach. Write. Publish. Get tenure. Repeat until she became a full professor. But with tenure comes an increased service burden, and Jones’s dual appointment has left her with two departments to serve.
Penn In the News
It’s common knowledge, and common sense: Earn your doctorate from a top-tier program, and you’re more likely to snag a top-tier academic job. But a new paper, published by economist David Colander in the journal Pedagogy, provides a clearer sense of just how much a program’s ranking influences where its newly-minted Ph.D.’s end up.