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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Boston College Students Walk out from Classes to Protest Racial Incidents
Students at Boston College are staging a walkout from classes to protest recent instances of racism on campus, including two posters that were defaced to say “Black Lives don’t Matter.”
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With Students Stranded Abroad, Colleges Condemn Travel Ban
Dozens of U.S. colleges are opposing President Donald Trump’s sweeping travel ban that has left some students and professors stranded abroad.
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Seven Sisters Colleges Respond to Steve Bannon’s Derogatory Remark With Open Letter
Add the Seven Sisters colleges to the growing chorus of critics of Steve Bannon, the “alt-right” leader and Breitbart chairman who was appointed as chief strategist to President-elect Donald Trump last week. In an open letter Monday, the heads of the seven northeastern liberal arts schools called on Bannon to “take a more expansive, informed and tolerant world view” in his new position. They specifically cited a 2011 interview in which Bannon used a derogatory lesbian slur in reference to Seven Sisters college alumnae and the women’s liberation movement.
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Cornel West Is Coming Back to Teach at Harvard
Cornel West, the fiery African-American scholar who broke with Harvard University 14 years ago and whose searing critiques of President Barack Obama earned him the enmity of many on the left, has been invited back to the university to teach. He is to hold a joint appointment at the Harvard Divinity School and the department of African and African-American studies as a professor of the practice of public philosophy, a title reserved for those who have made outstanding contributions in their professional fields.
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Massachusetts College Students Join National Walkout for ‘Sanctuary Campuses’
In protest of President-elect Donald Trump’s immigration proposals, college students in Massachusetts joined a national walkout calling on their schools to protect undocumented immigrants on campus from potential federal deportation efforts. Organized under the hashtag #SanctuaryCampus, students at Harvard, Tufts, MIT, UMass Amherst, Amherst College, Mount Holyoke College, and other local universities initiated petitions and rallies Wednesday seeking assurances that their fellow classmates, who are undocumented immigrants, would not be deported.
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US Colleges Look Outside China for New Foreign Students
As a surge of students from China begins to level off, many U.S. colleges are expanding recruiting efforts in the Middle East, South Asia and Latin America in part to boost budgets that have come to rely on tuition dollars from international students.
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Parents Wonder: How Do I Explain Trump’s Win to My Kids?
Ali Michael of the Graduate School of Education offers advice to parents about how to discussion the election results with their children.
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Harvard General Counsel to Review Men’s Soccer Player’s Sexually Explicit ‘Scouting Report’
Harvard’s Office of General Counsel will “conduct an immediate review” of the 2012 men’s soccer team’s fake “scouting report” that ranked freshmen recruits for the women’s soccer team in an explicit and sexual manner, University President Drew Faust said in a statement Tuesday. “I was deeply disturbed to read the news reporting concerning the men’s soccer team,” she said. “Such behavior is appalling and completely at odds with the mutual respect that is a fundamental value of our community. The offensive and derogatory remarks reported by The Crimson have no place at Harvard.”
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Colleges Are Dropping Their SAT Subject Test Requirement
Students applying to some top New England colleges will have fewer tests to take, as a growing number of colleges will no longer require applicants to submit scores from SAT subject tests. In the past year, Amherst, Dartmouth, and Williams Colleges have dropped the subject test requirement, reports The Boston Globe. Columbia University first announced the new policy this spring after saying that the exams lend little insight into students’ readiness, and can be detrimental to low-income and minority students.
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Bowdoin College Rips Malcolm Gladwell for ‘Manipulative’ Report on Its Food
Malcolm Gladwell does not want you, your kids, or your friends to go to Bowdoin College. Bowdoin, in turn, says Gladwell and his podcast producer took a “manipulative and disingenuous shot” at the Maine college and its well-regarded food and dining services. The culinary clash started when Gladwell, The New Yorker writer and best-selling author, published his “Revisionist History” podcast. The episode, titled “Food Fight,” argued that private liberal arts colleges that spend money on food do so at the expense of financial aid for poorer students.