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A new software program is on the market to try to help universities increase the diversity of their admitted classes while avoiding discrimination litigation.
Last April's shooting at Virginia Tech prompted a push for universities to revamp their emergency-notification systems. Now, there's a push from Congress to continue emergency alerts - but faster.
In light of shootings at Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois University by mentally unstable students, universities are trying to figure out how to prevent similar situations from happening again.
In this year's U.S. News and World Report rankings of graduate programs, Penn's numbers stayed fairly steady.
Penn's acceptance rate increased to 16.4 percent this year, up from 16 percent last year. In contrast, the other Ivies - excluding Cornell University, which has yet to release its information - have all reported record low admissions rates.
In contrast to the other Ivy League schools, Penn's overall acceptance rate increased to 16.4 percent for the class of 2012.
Harvard University has announced that it will stop accepting transfer applications for the next two academic years because there is no place available to house transfer students.
Astronaut Garrett Reisman is giving his professors what every teacher wants - the chance to see a former student achieve his dream.
Changing demographics in the near future may result in a decrease in the number of students applying to colleges nationwide. However, this may not necessarily translate into a decrease in Penn's application numbers or an increase in the University's acceptance rate.
The Faculty Senate Executive Committee decided yesterday not to recommend a policy requiring prospective faculty members to disclose previous criminal convictions.
As Penn's admissions officers review applications for the class of 2012, they are finding a handful of essays that seem too polished and mature to have been written by high-school seniors, interim Dean of Admissions Eric Kaplan said.
President Bush's budget for the 2009 fiscal year shows an increased push from the government to encourage foreign-language study for national-security purposes.
Some student-loan lenders are cutting back or have stopped offering federal loans to students, but members of the U.S. Congress have recently stepped in to try to help.
Penn may accept a greater number of applicants regular decision and from the waiting list this year, largely in response to Harvard and Princeton Universities' decisions to eliminate their early-acceptance programs, interim Dean of Admissions Eric Kaplan said.
For the class of 2012, the University received the largest number of applications in the school's history, the Admissions office announced this week.
Penn plans to work with interest groups in order to modify the Higher Education Act so the legislation corresponds with the University's interests, according to Bill Andresen, head of Penn's office in Washington.
Paper file folders are on the way to being a thing of the past in Penn's undergraduate admissions office.
Penn will comply with requests for information about endowment growth and financial-aid spending asked for in a letter from the U.S. Senate Finance Committee early this week.
Penn's admissions office is changing how prospective students can apply to the University.
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