Would you listen to Albert Einstein’s political counsel? Terence Tao’s opinion on drug policy?
The words “billion” and “million” may rhyme, but they’re very different values. Consider the following: if you started out with a billion dollars the day Christ was born, and spent $1,000 every day since, you’d still have $264 million left today.
The opioid epidemic — the recent and meteoric increase in heroin and prescription painkiller abuse — poses one of the most serious public health threats of our time.
What makes certain people stand-out performers? For years, I’ve tried to pinpoint common qualities among high achievers.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren recently wrote an op-ed about her plan to mitigate America’s $1.2 trillion student loan burden by imposing fines on universities whose alums are unable to pay off their student loans.
As our campus and national leaders make policy changes to enhance the state of mental health and wellness, I worry that our sympathetic nature and sense of urgency surrounding this issue may hinder the impact of our efforts. Emotionally charged issues often elicit emotionally-charged policy responses, which may not be ideal.
Under Gutmann, Penn became the largest school (by student population) to boast a no-loan — or “all-grant” — financial aid policy and launched countless initiatives to level the economic playing field.
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