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US agency eyes sex assault reports at Penn State Posted: 26 Jan 2014 01:01 PM PST HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Education is looking into Penn State's handling of sexual harassment and sexual assault complaints to see if it had responded appropriately to those reports in the years surrounding the Jerry Sandusky child sex-abuse scandal that engulfed the university.

Crash Course in Diplomacy: U.S. Offers Free College for the World Posted: 26 Jan 2014 08:09 AM PST These students are all benefiting from a relatively new trend in online learning: MOOCs, shorthand for massive open online courses, which are being offered by major American universities. Many of them also lack the chat-room interaction with other students that online courses are known for. But the State Department is expanding its program to offer MOOC access and group support to a growing number of international students. Increasingly, students "come together around the world," says Craig Weidemann, Penn State's vice president for outreach and vice provost for online education.

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