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Inside Bill Clinton’s nearly $18 million job as ‘honorary chancellor’ of a for-profit college

September 6, 2016 / Comments Off on Inside Bill Clinton’s nearly $18 million job as ‘honorary chancellor’ of a for-profit college / Posted in: 2016 Presidential Election, Hot Button Issues, In the Media, U.S. Politics

 

Former President Bill Clinton speaks at the 2016 Democratic National Convention. Photo by Penn State student Gabrielle Mannino

Former President Bill Clinton speaks at the 2016 Democratic National Convention. Photo by Penn State student Gabrielle Mannino

Kevin Kinser, head of Penn State’s Department of Education and Policy Studies, was quoted in a Washington Post article about Bill Clinton’s “honorary chancellor” position with a for-profit college company called Laureate International Universities. An excerpt of this story featuring Kinser is below:

“People who participated in the dinner said they remember a high-level conversation about using education to boost diplomacy, held amid antique furniture in the State Department’s elegant James Monroe room. Duffey spoke positively of Laureate’s approach to overseas expansion, according to one participant.

“Kevin Kinser, who studies for-profit colleges at Pennsylvania State University, said that given Laureate’s rapid growth, it was not unreasonable to include a company representative in that setting. But he said Laureate’s inclusion just months before Bill Clinton began being paid by the company does not look good.

“ ‘They were clearly a legitimate participant in this sort of event,’ he said. ‘But knowing what we know now, it does seem unseemly.’ ”

Read more at WashingtonPost.com.

Voters not showing much pride in Clinton, Trump

August 1, 2016 / Comments Off on Voters not showing much pride in Clinton, Trump / Posted in: 2016 Presidential Election, In the Media, U.S. Politics
A display of real time live social media inside the Wells Fargo Center at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on July 26, 2016. Credit: Gabrielle Mannino

A display of real time live social media inside the Wells Fargo Center at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on July 26, 2016. Credit: Gabrielle Mannino

Penn State’s Professor of Political Science Michael Berkman and Christopher Beem, the managing director of the McCourtney Institute of Democracy at Penn State, penned an op-ed that was published in The Philadelphia Inquirer. Below is an excerpt from this article.

“With Hillary Clinton accepting the Democratic nomination in Philadelphia this week, we might expect that Americans, and especially women, are taking pride in her historic achievement as the first woman to lead a major party ticket. That is certainly what happened in 2008 when Americans of all stripes expressed pride that the nation had nominated its first African American candidate.

“Even if they did not support Barack Obama, many Americans recognized the historic nature of the election. However, a recent Mood of the Nation Poll by Penn State’s McCourtney Institute for Democracy shows that going into the Democratic convention, this was not the case.

“The scientific poll posed a series of open-ended questions to a representative sample of 1,000 Americans. It allowed ordinary citizens to tell us what is on their minds without restricting them to a small number of predetermined answers.”

Read more at The Philadelphia Inquirer.

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