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When students return to campus this fall, it may be a whole new SEPTA experience.
Checking the background of prospective applicants and employees is turning into a more common practice at Penn.
The nation's largest organization of college professors was less than sold on Penn's movement toward stricter hiring practices for faculty, calling the potential changes "an invasion of privacy."
With Scott Ward still facing federal child-pornography charges in Pennsylvania, legal experts say the former Wharton professor doesn't have much of a case and will likely plead guilty once again.
Former Wharton professor Scott Ward will still face additional charges in Pennsylvania despite pleading guilty to child-pornography charges in a Virginia federal court, prosecutors said yesterday.
Former Wharton professor Scott Ward pled guilty in federal court yesterday to producing child pornography for importation into the United States.
Former Wharton professor Scott Ward pled guilty today in federal court to producing child pornography for importation into the United States.
The two convicted sex offenders discovered by Penn officials last month to be working for the University are no longer employed at Penn, University officials said Friday.
The announcement that the two convicted sex offenders who had been working for the University would no longer be employed at Penn coincides with a University discussion about changing Penn's hiring and admissions policies that Provost Ron Daniels said is "well underway."
A new report predicts that starting salaries for associates at top Manhattan law firms could reach $190,000 by December, and one expert says they have no signs of stopping.
The University is the most frequent violator of federal animal-abuse guidelines in the country, with 77 citations during a nine-month period, according to research watchdog group Stop Animal Exploitation Now.
DOYLESTOWN, Pa. - Convicted sex felon and former Penn student Kurt Mitman had his academic-release privileges terminated Friday and will not be able to return to campus until at least September.
Former Penn professor Tracy McIntosh and the University of Pennsylvania have both reached settlements in a civil suit filed by the graduate student McIntosh sexually assaulted in 2002, according to case records filed in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas.
Jailed sex felon and graduate student Kurt Mitman will learn at a hearing today if he will be allowed to return to campus.
The current University review of Penn's hiring and admissions practices will likely result in all faculty, students and staff being mandated to self-disclose any prior convictions, and more-stringent background checks are also in the works, officials said this week.
A judge will decide within the next week whether jailed sex offender and Penn student Kurt Mitman will be allowed to return to campus, though any release from prison will likely be accompanied by additional security.
Despite revelations that a graduate student and two current University employees are registered sex offenders, University officials say that a criminal conviction will still not prohibit admission or employment at Penn.
A convicted sex felon has been enrolled at Penn as a full-time graduate student since September, while still serving his sentence at a Bucks County prison.
Cynics who contend that lawyers are morally insensitive now have a study to back them up. A Carnegie Foundation study says that law schools have a deficit in moral and ethical training and in practical instruction - but Penn Law Dean Michael Fitts said he's not sure that Penn has any such problem. "We do as good a job as any law school in the country" in those sorts of instruction, Fitts said. The study, led by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill law professor Judith Wegner, places much of the blame on the "case-dialogue method," a common instruction style among the law schools surveyed. The case-dialogue method teaches students to abstract facts from their original context so that they can be examined from a legal point of view. Wegner said in a press release that this method has "driven out the capacity to address . other aspects of what it is to be a lawyer and to really have a set of beliefs and professional identity." The study suggests that law schools, unlike other professional programs such as medical schools, generally fail to address student needs for training in a real professional practice. The current methodology, according to the study, conveys "the impression that lawyers are more like competitive scholars than attorneys engaged with the problems of clients." Although law schools have taken steps toward integrating legal ethics into their curricula, the study says, they "rarely pay consistent attention to the social and cultural contexts of legal institutions and the varied forms of legal practice." But, according to Fitts, Penn Law is far ahead of the game and already incorporates "a whole variety of different mechanisms" to make students aware of their moral and ethical obligations as lawyers. Among these mechanisms is the requirement for all Penn Law students to complete 70 hours of community service - a figure that over 70 percent of students exceed, Fitts said. "A sense of responsibility to a community is part of what it means to be a professional," Fitts said. He added that Penn is the first major school to adopt a community-service requirement. Third-year Penn Law student Nicholas Baker said he thinks the community-service program is a great way for students to learn moral responsibility - even if they have no interest in doing so. "Even if you don't want to get involved with the community, you're sort of forced to," Baker said. And Penn Law's current ethical education goes beyond community service, extending to a mandatory course in professional responsibility for all students, Fitts said. Students are also encouraged to enroll in classes at other University schools. For example, he said, a Law student specializing in intellectual property might take classes at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences in order to learn more about the engineering aspect of patent law. Fitts said that such cross-enrollment teaches "lawyers how to understand what their clients need."
Experts say a third trial for Irina Malinovskaya is unlikely to win a conviction for the prosecution - and some even suggest that the defense will have a better chance at an acquittal.