February 5, 2018
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Craig Steven Wilder visits Penn GSE to discuss why colleges are still reluctant to acknowledge their ties to slavery

The MIT historian was Penn GSE's first 2018 Visiting Scholar of Color.

 

  • Race, Equity & Inclusion
  • Higher Education
October 14, 2017
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Shaping the National Landscape: Penn GSE Produces College Presidents

Four Penn GSE alumni who have gone on to the top position at a college or university share their professional paths, accomplishments, and perspectives.

  • Higher Education
  • Alumni
October 14, 2017
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Navigating Statewide Challenges

As president of the University of Alaska, James R. Johnsen, GRD’06, applies leadership skills he developed at Penn GSE.

  • Higher Education
  • Alumni
September 15, 2017
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Sigal Ben-Porath discusses her new book, Free Speech on Campus

Ben-Porath offers a useful framework for thinking about free speech controversies both inside and outside the college classroom, shifting the focus away from disputes about legality and harm and toward democracy and inclusion.

 

  • Education Policy & Analysis
  • Higher Education
August 25, 2017
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Should colleges consider “study drugs” cheating?

Ross Aikins recently found few top-tier U.S. universities have policies regarding so-called cognitive enhancement drugs, as he told SiruisXM’s Knoweldge@Wharton. 

 

  • Education Policy & Analysis
  • Higher Education
June 7, 2017
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Alex Posecznick peers behind the curtain of college admissions

In his book Selling Hope and College, Posecznick examines the educational, financial, and ethical pressures on admissions officers at a non-selective college. 

 

  • Higher Education
May 31, 2017
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Higher Education Division’s Gasman named to Berkowitz Chair

A noted education historian, Gasman’s areas of expertise include the history of American higher education, historically black colleges and universities, minority serving institutions, African American leadership, and fundraising and philanthropy. The Chair was donated by the Berkowitz family in order to facilitate a study of ethnic relations, cultural pluralism, and diversity as they relate to education.

 

  • Race, Equity & Inclusion
  • Higher Education
May 16, 2017
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A curious board is university’s ally, writes higher education expert Peter Eckel

Writing in Inside Higher Education, Peter Eckel says boards should cultivate members’ curiosity to avoid the status quo. 

 

  • Higher Education
March 9, 2017
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Gasman: No, Secretary DeVos, professors don’t tell students what to think

In an open letter in The Washington Post, Gasman says that professors teach students to think for themselves.

 

  • Higher Education
February 2, 2017
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Higher Education Leadership: Beyond “Sanctuary”

After the uncertainty created by Donald Trump’s executive order banning people from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the U.S., leaders at American universities need to be very clear about what they can — and can’t — do to protect their students and faculty, says Penn GSE Associate Dean Matthew Hartley. 

 

  • Higher Education

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