This week around higher education | April 5 to April 12
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Check out what happened around Penn’s peer schools this week
Scott Mackler is trapped.
School of Nursing Dean Afaf Meleis, who has held her deanship at Penn for more than a decade, plans to step down from her current position at the end of her term in June 2014, the University announced Wednesday.
Peter Ammon, one of the directors of the nation’s second-largest university endowment, will serve as Penn’s next chief investment officer, the University announced Tuesday.
In a piece earlier this year, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman wrote of online education that “nothing has more potential to unlock a billion more brains to solve the world’s biggest problems.”
As Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller sat in a panel discussion at this weekend’s inaugural Coursera Partners’ Conference, she paused to take a look around the room.
For Daphne Koller, the past year has been nothing short of “surreal.”
In October 2012, open courseware provider Coursera announced that it had entered into an agreement to license several of Penn’s online classes to Antioch University.
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Graduate School of Education Dean Andy Porter will retire at the end of his current contract in June 2014, the University announced Thursday.
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Sex is in the air.
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Following an uncontested race, this year’s voter turnout for the Undergraduate Assembly presidency came in at just 29 percent — the lowest total since the position became popularly elected in 2010, the Nominations and Elections Committee announced.
Members of the Penn Hillel community are banding together in support of a prospective student who wrote about more than just his world-famous matzah balls in an application essay.
A privatized liquor industry in Pennsylvania is one step closer to becoming a reality.
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When College and Wharton junior Abe Sutton is elected president of the Undergraduate Assembly this weekend, it will mark the eighth year in a row that a male has stood at the helm of Penn student government.
For the fourth year in a row, the price of a Penn education will increase by 3.9 percent for the upcoming school year, the University announced Thursday.
Nine-time Grammy award-winning artist John Legend and San Francisco-based pop rock band Train will perform at a celebration of the University’s Making History fundraising campaign on April 19, the Office of Alumni Relations announced Tuesday night.