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Duneier, early Coursera proponent, departs platform amid national debate on role of massive online education

The Daily Princetonian

Duneier, early Coursera proponent, departs platform amid national debate on role of massive online education

Regina Wang

Less than a year and a half after the the University first began offering online courses through the massive online education platform Coursera, one of its first and most popular courses will be discontinued.Sociology professor Mitchell Duneier was an early champion of Cousera.

NEWS | 09/16/2013

News & Notes: Drug possession case transferred to Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office

The Daily Princetonian

News & Notes: Drug possession case transferred to Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office

Marcelo Rochabrun

The case of the undergraduate student charged with possession of illegal drugs by the University’s Department of Public Safety will be handled by Mercer County’s Prosecutor's Office, a representative from the local Princeton Municipal Court said Monday.Joseph Gauvreau ’17 faced a routine court date on Sept.

NEWS | 09/16/2013

News & Notes: Seven transported for alcohol intoxication on day of Lawnparties

The Daily Princetonian

News & Notes: Seven transported for alcohol intoxication on day of Lawnparties

Daily Princetonian Staff

Seven students were transported for alcohol intoxication on Sunday, the day of Lawnparties, to either the University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro or University Health Services.In contrast, four students were transported for alcohol intoxication on Saturday and one on Friday, according to Department of Public Safety Director of Operations Stefanie Karp. In total, seven were transported to UMCPP and five to UHS. The number of students transported over the weekend remains the same as last Spring’s Lawnparties weekend. In the spring, the weekend includes two evenings of eating club Houseparties on Friday and Saturday in addition to Sunday's Lawnparties.

NEWS | 09/16/2013
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Report finds whites, males dominate in faculty, administrator, graduate student, postdoctoral populations

Diversitygraphic

Report finds whites, males dominate in faculty, administrator, graduate student, postdoctoral populations

Anna Mazarakis

Whites are overrepresented among the University’s graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and senior administrators, according to 2012 data published Thursday by the Trustee Ad Hoc Committee on Diversity formed in January of 2012.The report states the committee found that progress in the University’s efforts to increase diversity since 1980 has been “uneven,” and, in the case of black and Hispanic populations, “disturbingly slow.”Data also shows that men are greatly overrepresented among faculty and graduate student populations.The report recommends that academic departments take steps to increase diversity.“We analyzed a whole lot of data and basically found that the University’s progress on issues of diversity has been very uneven,” Deborah Prentice, co-chair of the Trustee Ad Hoc Committee on Diversity and a professor of psychology and public affairs, said.

NEWS | 09/12/2013

Preferred name policy to allow students to go by nicknames in U. directory

The Daily Princetonian

Preferred name policy to allow students to go by nicknames in U. directory

Michael Granovetter

University students who go by a first name other than their legal one will now have the option to change their name in the student directory, University Registrar Polly Griffin announced in an email sent to the student body last week. Under this new “preferred name policy,” the email explained, students may designate their “preferred” name in the directory through SCORE. “As long as the use of this preferred name is not for the purposes of misrepresentation, the University acknowledges that a ‘preferred name’ can and should be used where possible in the course of University business and education,” Griffin stated in the email, adding, “We know that this feature is important to many students, and we are pleased to be able to offer this option.” Griffin deferred comment to University spokesperson Martin Mbugua, who explained that the administration had been discussing this policy change over the past several months after receiving numerous requests from students who prefer a name other than their formal one.

NEWS | 09/12/2013

Dinky train station move prompts residents to file six lawsuits

The Daily Princetonian

Dinky train station move prompts residents to file six lawsuits

Patience Haggin

Those who arrived on campus by train in recent weeks were dropped off at the new temporary Dinky station, located 1,200 feet south of the old station’s location and over 700 feet south of its future location. The station’s relocation is currently being challenged by six different pending lawsuits, each of which takes issue with different aspects of the University’s Arts and Transit Neighborhood construction project that prompted the station’s relocation, as well as with different aspects of the project’s current execution. The construction currently revamping the Alexander corridor is part of the Arts and Transit Neighborhood, a $330 million development that will include several rehearsal and performance spaces dedicated to arts education on campus.

NEWS | 09/11/2013

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