OK, maybe that headline is a bit sensational, but it does look like admissions applications to UPenn are almost level this year compared to last. The other Ivies are seeing their applications climb at a significant rate, so maybe, this year at least, something has happened to affect the relative popularity of this Top Tier [...]
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There’s nothing terribly new in the source article for this note, but it’s a worthy review of the state of play in Washington regarding the endowment payment controversy that is now impacting elite colleges and universities. Certainly, pressure from the Senate has had a significant role in increasing the flow of funds from the largest [...]
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The University of Pennsylvania has announced a $15 million gift from one of its board members, Christopher Browne. The gift will establish five named chairs in the school of arts and sciences. Mr. Browne is the managing director of the investment house, Tweedy, Brown Company, and since the Insider actually has invested with that firm [...]
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The web gets to be more useful every day. Even if you’re not a life scientist have a look at the Bio Career Center site highlighted below. It offers all sorts of information for recent graduates from schools including Stanford and the University of Pennsylvania, as well as to participating employers.
What a great concept. [...]
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Well, I guess my students may have been right all along. The grading in science courses is harder than it is in the humanities, or so the evidence suggests at UPenn. It’s interesting to see how the Director of Academic Affairs tries to rationalize these data: smaller class sizes, better interaction between the students and [...]
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In a nicely done opinion piece in the University of Pennsylvania student paper, Stephen Krewson surveys the current landscape of financial aid in the Ivy League, painting a bright picture. Seemingly everyone wins out in this, although he doesn’t address some of the concerns raised by others, the Top Tier Insider included. While acknowledging that [...]
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It looks like the Department of Educational Reform at the University of Arkansas examined the curriculum at some top colleges and found that math classes are outnumbered by those with the words “multiculturalism,” “diversity” or “inclusion” in their titles about two-thirds of the time. Special mention is made of Stanford, Penn, and Harvard whose catalogs [...]
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in spite of the remarkable increase in applications at the Top Tier schools, there seems to be some turnover in the leadership of admissions offices around the Ivies. The University of Pennsylvania has just announced the appointment of a new admissions dean, Eric Furda, an alumnus of that university. Currently Mr. Furda is the vp [...]
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After an earlier report that it would increase the payout from its huge endowment, Yale University has announced that it will follow the lead of Harvard and limit the tuition burden on middle- and upper-middle income student families by spending an additional $56 million on financial aid. As noted in the article, schools like Penn, [...]
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Can odor be used to diagnose disease and provide a guideline to treatment? Dr. William Hanson of the University of Pennsylvania is an anesthesiologist who thinks so and is researching an electronic nose to sense molecules in the breadth of patients that might be correlated with a variety of ailments. Speed, low cost, and non-invasiveness [...]
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