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University of Pennsylvania, The ("Penn")


Self Description

February 2002: "Penn's founder, Benjamin Franklin, put it more succinctly: Students should learn 'everything that is useful and everything that is ornamental.' The University of Pennsylvania still follows that advice. Penn has a history of educational innovation consistent with Franklin's instructions, including the nation's first medical school, its first business school, the first university teaching hospital and the first modern liberal-arts curriculum." http://www.upenn.edu/about_penn/

Third-Party Descriptions

June 2010: "At a handful of private universities with sizable endowments, including Princeton, Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania, the goal is quite literally to eliminate loan debt for most graduating seniors."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/05/AR2010060500717.html

February 2008: "But long-fought battles for unionization have been underway at some private universities -- including Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania, where graduate students have held strikes in recent years -- and student unions there still are not recognized."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/02/AR2008020201969.html

August 2006: In October 2000, nearly 300 former inmates sued the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Kligman, Dow Chemical and Johnson & Johnson for injuries they said occurred during the experiments at Holmesburg, but the suit was dismissed because the statute of limitations had expired.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/13/us/13inmates.html

Relationships

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Owner of (partial or full, past or present) Boettner Center for Pensions and Retirement Security Organization Apr 26, 2012
Owner of (partial or full, past or present) Center for Bioethics Organization Aug 11, 2006
Owner of (partial or full, past or present) Center for Cognitive Neuroscience Organization Feb 9, 2005
Owner of (partial or full, past or present) Center for Mental Health Policy and Services Research (CMHPSR) Organization Oct 5, 2009
Owner of (partial or full, past or present) Center for the Study of Higher Education (CSHE) Organization Jan 14, 2008
Owner of (partial or full, past or present) Jerry Lee Center of Criminology Organization May 28, 2008
Owner of (partial or full, past or present) Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (LDI) Organization May 16, 2011
Owner of (partial or full, past or present) Wharton School Organization Sep 21, 2004
Student/Trainee (past or present) Bill Allison Person Oct 14, 2005
Student/Trainee (past or present) Binyamin Appelbaum Person Nov 24, 2008
Student/Trainee (past or present) Prof. Ross K. Baker Ph.D. Person Oct 21, 2007
Student/Trainee (past or present) Prof. Ann M. Bartow Esq. Person Aug 2, 2008
Student/Trainee (past or present) Dr. Michael J. Behe Ph.D. Person Dec 21, 2005
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Dr. Justin E. Bekelman M.D. Person Dec 14, 2012
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Dr. Jeffrey S. Berns M.D. Person Apr 20, 2007
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Michael B. Blank Ph.D. Person Oct 5, 2009
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Matt Blaze Person Aug 31, 2007
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Gregory K. Brown Ph.D. Person Mar 10, 2008
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Arthur Caplan Person Jan 25, 2006
Student/Trainee (past or present) Prof. Noam Avram Chomsky Person Oct 10, 2006
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Cindy W. Christian M.D. Person Feb 17, 2011
Student/Trainee (past or present) Prof. George M. Cohen Esq. Person
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) James Coyne M.D. Person Nov 30, 2005
Student/Trainee (past or present) Sara "Meg" Davis Ph.D. Person Aug 7, 2009
Student/Trainee (past or present) Steve DelBianco Person Jun 30, 2011
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. David F. Dinges Ph.D. Person Jun 28, 2006
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Dr. Richard S. Dunn Person Mar 20, 2006
Student/Trainee (past or present) Steve Eisman Person Nov 26, 2008
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Martha J. Farah Ph.D. Person Mar 20, 2008
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. David "Dave" J. Farber Person
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Edna B. Foa Ph.D. Person Jun 23, 2007
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Kenneth R. Foster Person Mar 19, 2004
Student/Trainee (past or present) Prof. Scott Frisch Person Aug 24, 2006
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Frank F. Furstenberg Ph.D. Person Feb 10, 2012
Student/Trainee (past or present) Rose George Person May 11, 2011
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Dr. Eli Glatstein M.D. Person Dec 3, 2006
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Erving Goffman Person Mar 7, 2012
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Sarah Barringer Gordon Esq. Person May 17, 2009
Student/Trainee (past or present) Emily Nagle Green Person Jan 6, 2008
Student/Trainee (past or present) Prof. I. Michael Greenberger Esq. Person Aug 14, 2006
Student/Trainee (past or present) Marcia D. Greenberger Esq. Person Nov 2, 2008
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Lani Guinier Esq. Person
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Dr. Ruben C. Gur Ph.D. Person Mar 3, 2008
Organization Head/Leader (past or present) Prof. Amy Gutmann Ph.D. Person Jun 20, 2010
Student/Trainee (past or present) Prof. Jonathan Haidt Ph.D. Person May 17, 2011
Student/Trainee (past or present) Peter Hakim MPIA Person Jan 10, 2009
Student/Trainee (past or present) David A. Harris Person Aug 12, 2007
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr., Esq. Person
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Donald E. Heller Ed.D. Person Jan 14, 2008
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Student/Trainee (past or present) Prof. Edward S. Herman Ph.D. Person Apr 1, 2008
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Alan L. Hillman Person
Student/Trainee (past or present) Jeffrey C. Hooke Person May 21, 2007
Student/Trainee (past or present) Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. Person May 29, 2006
Student/Trainee (past or present) Mark Hyman Esq. Person May 26, 2010
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Kathleen Hall Jamieson Person Jun 21, 2008
Student/Trainee (past or present) Jeremy Kahn MS Person Dec 9, 2008
Student/Trainee (past or present) Prof. Frank C. Keil Ph.D. Person Mar 3, 2008
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Lawrence R. Klein Ph.D. Person Mar 5, 2008
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Dr. Albert M. Kligman MD, Ph.D. Person Aug 17, 2006
Organization Executive (past or present) Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Student/Trainee (past or present) Surgeon General C. Everett Koop M.D., D.Sc Person Jul 1, 2006
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Alan Charles Kors Person Feb 17, 2006
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Robert Kurzban Person Nov 25, 2007
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Dr. Steven C. Larson M.D. Person Nov 9, 2008
Student/Trainee (past or present) Lisa Lerer Person Apr 15, 2007
Student/Trainee (past or present) Prof. Lawrence Lessig Esq. Person Aug 13, 2007
Student/Trainee (past or present) Jason E. Lewis Person Jun 15, 2011
Student/Trainee (past or present) Robert E. Litan Esq. Person
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Lynn M. LoPucki Esq. Person
Student/Trainee (past or present) Prof. Andrea McDowell Ph.D., Esq. Person Sep 10, 2011
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. A. Thomas McLellan Ph.D. Person May 17, 2007
Student/Trainee (past or present) John S. Michael Person Jun 15, 2011
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Olivia S. Mitchell Ph.D. Person Apr 26, 2012
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Jonathan D. Moreno Ph.D. Person Aug 6, 2007
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Stephen J. Morse J.D., Ph.D Person Mar 3, 2008
Student/Trainee (past or present) Dr. Alvin H. Moss M.D. Person Aug 30, 2006
Student/Trainee (past or present) William "Bill" D. Novelli MA Person Mar 12, 2006
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Dr. Paul A. Offit Person Oct 17, 2008
Student/Trainee (past or present) Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Laura W. Perna Ph.D.,MPP Person Mar 18, 2008
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Nathaniel Persily Esq. Person Jul 31, 2007
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Robert N. Proctor Person Jun 14, 2003
About Prof. Dan Raff Person
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Arti Rai Esq. Person Aug 14, 2007
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Adrian Raine Ph.D. Person Mar 3, 2008
Organization Head/Leader (past or present) Judith Rodin Person
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Kermit Roosevelt Esq. Person Jun 25, 2007
Student/Trainee (past or present) James J. Sandman Esq. Person Mar 16, 2013
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Roy A. Schotland Person Sep 15, 2006
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Lawrence W. Sherman Ph.D. Person May 28, 2008
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Carol Loeb Shloss Ph.D. Person Nov 27, 2007
Student/Trainee (past or present) Dr. Jean Silver-Isenstadt M.D., Ph.D. Person May 23, 2007
Student/Trainee (past or present) Henry R. Silverman Esq. Person Sep 4, 2011
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. David Skeel Esq. Person Oct 18, 2006
Student/Trainee (past or present) Prof. Chester S. Spatt Ph.D. Person May 7, 2012
Student/Trainee (past or present) Senator Arlen J. Specter Esq. Person Jan 7, 2006
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Joseph Turow Person Jun 19, 2005
Student/Trainee (past or present) Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Dr. P. Roy Vagelos M.D. Person Apr 27, 2008
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Jack L. VanDerhei Ph.D., CEBS Person Oct 25, 2006
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Amy L. Wax Esq. Person Jul 2, 2007
Student/Trainee (past or present) Thomas Wilner Esq. Person Oct 25, 2006
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Dr. James Wilson Person
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Tobias Barrington Wolff Esq. Person May 15, 2012
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Paul Root Wolpe Ph.D. Person Mar 3, 2008
Student/Trainee (past or present) Tali Yahalom Person Oct 10, 2009
Student/Trainee (past or present) President Mark G. Yudof Esq. Person Nov 21, 2011
Student/Trainee (past or present) Dr. Mark M. Zandi Ph.D. Person Mar 5, 2008
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Dr. Andrew C. von Eschenbach M.D. Person Nov 22, 2005

Articles and Resources

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Date Fairness.com Resource Read it at:
Jun 06, 2010 Colleges offer grants, work-study to reduce students' debt

QUOTE: More than 50 colleges -- including elite private schools and flagship state universities in Virginia and Maryland -- have eliminated or capped loans in their financial aid portfolios for some or all students, promising enough aid in grants and work-study to cover most of the gap between what they charge and what each student can afford to pay. At a handful of private universities with sizable endowments, including Princeton, Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania, the goal is quite literally to eliminate loan debt for most graduating seniors.

 Washington Post
Mar 05, 2009 Piecemeal Layoffs Avoid Warning Laws

QUOTE: These unannounced cuts [At IBM], labor experts say, raise issues of disclosure and the treatment of workers. They argue that the federal law requiring warning of certain kinds of layoffs should be overhauled to cover smaller job cuts.

 New York Times
Feb 03, 2008 Grad Students May Get to Unionize: U-Md., Which Doesn't See Them as Employees, Likely to Oppose Bill

QUOTE: A Montgomery County lawmaker will introduce legislation tomorrow to allow graduate students and adjunct professors at Maryland's public universities to form unions..."Graduate students are treated like the migrant laborers of higher education," said [a MD state senator].

 Washington Post
Dec 29, 2007 Harvard’s Aid to Middle Class Pressures Rivals

QUOTE: By substantially discounting costs for all but the very wealthiest students, Harvard shook up the landscape of college pricing...Some [college] administrators say there will now be pressure to provide more merit aid to relatively wealthy high achievers, reducing the amount available to poorer students.

 New York Times
Jun 20, 2007 Are B-Schools Hiding the Cheaters?: Want to know where business students are cheating? Many schools have honor codes, but it's not easy to find out when they're broken

QUOTE: With the controversy surrounding the cheating scandal at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, a prospective business school student might be inclined to take a closer look at just how often cheating occurs at some top B-schools. But if you're of that mind, be prepared to encounter some roadblocks along the way.

 BusinessWeek
Apr 17, 2007 Adult Education: Are You Getting What You Pay For?

QUOTE: Many schools are pushing certificate programs, groups of related courses packaged together — but quality can vary widely. We spoke with academic experts to find out how you can tell the A-list programs from the duds.

 Smart Money
Mar 10, 2007 Law School Deans Speak Out on Web Site Content: Yale, Penn Condemn Anonymous Attacks

QUOTE: The deans at two top law schools have admonished the operators of an Internet message board that hosts chats containing personal attacks against female students and racist and homophobic remarks. Letters written by the deans at Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania law schools, were issued after an article in The Washington Post aired the debate over AutoAdmit, a message board that was created as a forum to exchange advice on law schools and firms.

 Washington Post
Mar 06, 2007 In Diversity Push, Top Universities Enrolling More Black Immigrants: Critics Say Effort Favors Elite Foreigners, Leaves Out Americans

QUOTE: The large representation of black immigrants developed as schools' focus shifted from restitution for decades of excluding black Americans from campuses to embracing wider diversity, the study's authors said. The more elite the school, the more black immigrants are enrolled. "A lot of these institutions have been promoting the increase in their black populations, but clearly this increase reflects a growth in their black immigrant populations," said Camille Z. Charles, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania who co-authored the study.

 Washington Post
Feb 27, 2007 As Ethics Panels Expand Grip, No Field Is Off Limits

QUOTE: Ever since the gross mistreatment of poor black men in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study came to light three decades ago, the federal government has required ethics panels to protect people from being used as human lab rats in biomedical studies. Yet now, faculty and graduate students across the country increasingly complain that these panels have spun out of control, curtailing academic freedom and interfering with research in history, English and other subjects that poses virtually no danger to anyone.

 New York Times
Feb 11, 2007 Doctors and Drug Makers: A Move to End Cozy Ties

QUOTE: The new initiative, called the Prescription Project, is an outgrowth of an article published in January 2006 in The Journal of the American Medical Association in which a coalition of scholars and doctors proposed that academic medical centers across the country take the lead in restricting interactions between doctors and the health care industry.

 New York Times
Sep 21, 2006 Protect Your Privacy

QUOTE: When you send a personal e-mail message on your university computer through the university’s server, do you feel secure in your privacy, or do you instead imagine Big Brother reading it?...Whether they are watching you or not, colleges do have fairly well defined policies in regard to appropriate use of e-mail. These policies give the institutions room to maneuver and employees enough room to hang themselves.

 Inside Higher Ed
Sep 01, 2006 Short End: Tall people earn more because they're smarter.

QUOTE: It is well-documented that short people earn less money than tall people do...Higher intelligence resolves the puzzle of higher pay for the tall but begs the question of why height and intelligence are related in the first place. It is possible that early childhood care, including prenatal care, can increase both height and cognitive ability. But maybe the Fates just have it in for short people.

 Slate
Aug 30, 2006 Leader of Polygamist Mormon Sect Is Arrested

QUOTE: Warren Jeffs, the polygamist leader of a Mormon-offshoot sect and a symbol of the government’s hardened line against plural marriage in the West, was arrested...brings to a head many of the issues that have been simmering in the deeply isolated polygamist communities of Utah and Arizona where Mr. Jeffs’s outlaw stance had bolstered his claim to be an untouchable prophet of God.

 New York Times
Aug 13, 2006 Panel Suggests Using Inmates in Drug Trials

QUOTE: federal panel of medical advisers has recommended that the government loosen regulations that severely limit the testing of pharmaceuticals on prison inmates...it has dredged up a painful history of medical mistreatment and incited debate...about whether prisoners can truly make uncoerced decisions, given the environment they live in.

 New York Times
Jul 19, 2006 Colleges Make Way for Internships

QUOTE: as many as half of all internships are unpaid or low-paid...Some students even effectively end up paying tuition to do unpaid internships because some companies, concerned about labor laws, require students to receive academic credit for the experience.

 New York Times
Apr 07, 2006 Colleges, Awash in Applications, Turning Away Even Top Students

QUOTE: Selective schools in the region and the country are reporting more rejections than ever..."We were kind of struck by the fact that we were wait-listing and denying students that last year or two years ago we would have been happy to admit," said John Latting, director of undergraduate admissions.

 Washington Post
Mar 24, 2006 College Board Acknowledges More SAT Scoring Errors

QUOTE: an additional 27,000 SAT tests from the October exam had not been rescanned for errors.The announcement was the third admission in two weeks by the testing organization of potential errors and underreported scores.

 Washington Post
Jan 09, 2006 Urban Colleges Learn to Be Good Neighbors: Universities Also Reap Benefits From Investing in Their Communities

QUOTE: Ten years ago, the University of Pennsylvania was under siege....The university and private developers have invested about a billion dollars over the past decade in security, retail, schools, the local housing market and what Penn refers to as "economic inclusion" -- making sure the community and minority companies get a piece of the success.

 Washington Post
Aug 31, 2004 Lessons from Google's IPO

QUOTE: After more than more than three months of filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, public miscues, pricing changes and enough legalese to make a lawyer dizzy, Google's initial public offering is one for the record books.

 Knowledge@wharton
Apr 17, 2004 Pushing for Union, Columbia Grad Students Are Set to Strike

QUOTE: Graduate teaching assistants at Columbia University said yesterday that they would go on strike Monday morning and remain out until Columbia recognized their right to unionize...

 New York Times

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