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Structured, Active, In-class Learning is changing the calculus on teaching

Mathematics professor Philip Gressman sees the comprehensive teaching approach as a way to engage students as a dynamic group, something STEM courses don’t often embrace.

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Penn announces the largest one-time increase to minimum Ph.D. stipend

The University-wide minimum Ph.D. stipend will rise from $30,547 to $38,000 and goes into effect in the coming academic year.

Poets&Quants’ top 50 undergraduate professors of 2022

Lori Rosenkopf, Hummy Song, and Shiri Melumad of the Wharton School are three of P&Q’s 50 best undergraduate business school professors of 2022.

Med schools should de-emphasize standardized admissions tests

In a cowritten Op-Ed, College of Arts and Sciences student Cameron Sabet urges medical schools to make their standardized tests pass/fail in order to remove barriers for disadvantaged minority applicants.

Have the anticapitalists reached Harvard Business School?

Witold Henisz of the Wharton School says that Wharton’s shift towards progressive courses like Kevin Werbach’s “Responsibility in Business” is a matter of economics, not ideology.

Affirmative action is about diversity. But campuses won’t allow diverse opinions about it

In an Op-Ed, Jonathan Zimmerman of the Graduate School of Education urges universities to encourage open and honest dialogues about affirmative action.

Starting salaries for Wharton MBA grads are higher than ever as school’s tech pipeline grows

Penn’s MBA Careers Report shows that 99% of the Wharton School’s MBA graduates have full-time job offers, with a median starting salary of $175,000, the highest ever.

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Learning to be a Chief Learning Officer

The Graduate School of Education’s Chief Learning Officer program has a new director, Raghu Krishnamoorthy. The program gives working executives new skills, connections, and expertise to become scholar-practitioners.

Europe is ahead of the U.S. on gender equity. So why is abuse in HE rife?

In an opinion piece, Susan B. Sorenson of the School of Social Policy & Practice contrasts Europe’s pronounced efforts to reduce gender inequality with recent studies which find alarming rates of gender-based violence in European universities.

Wharton Executive Education launches the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Program

The Wharton School’s new Chief Technology Officer Program is designed to prepare tech professionals for the structural and strategic challenges of technological architecture.

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