Ivy League

Gutmann remains third-highest paid president in Ivy League

Gutmann received $1,462,742 in total salary in 2010, a nearly 11 percent increase from her compensation package in 2009.

Ernest Owens | Confessions of an Ivy League snob

In many ways, acceptance to Penn is a blessing and a responsibility. It is a fortunate chance to launch a better life and an even greater task to maintain it. If you don’t feel a level of high spirits for such a worthy burden, then you’re just lying to yourself.

Quick Takes | Higher education round-up: April 13

A weekly roundup of news from around the Ivy League and the higher-education community

Penn’s core curriculum requirements fall in the middle of peer schools

As class schedules were released last week and registration opened, many students will spend the next few months strategizing about how to fulfill the College of Arts and Science’s diverse Sector and Foundational requirements. WORD ON THE WALK | Core Curriculums INTERACTIVE: Penn’s Core Curriculum

Quick Takes | Higher education round-up: April 13

A weekly roundup of news from around the Ivy League and the higher-education community.

Quick Takes | Higher education round-up: April 6

A weekly roundup of news from around the Ivy League and the higher-education community

Penn admit rates remain steady, against changes in the Ivy League

The Ivy League saw mixed results in this year’s application cycle. INTERACTIVE: Ivy League Application Stats INTERACTIVE: Penn Admission Rates Over Time VIDEO: Your Admissions Memories LAST YEAR: Penn admissions drops to 12.3 percent

Quick Takes | Higher education round-up: March 30

A weekly roundup of news from around the Ivy League and the higher-education community.

Experts sound off on Ivy League candidate for World Bank head

Experts say Kim — a physician and co-founder of the nonprofit Partners in Health — would bring a major change to the banking institution, which has historically been led by economists and government officials.

Brown University announces new president

The appointment of Christina Paxson will maintain the current balance of male-to-female Ivy League presidents.

MIT president steps down from position

Several recent resignation announcements by female presidents at top-tier institutions have prompted discussion about the representation of women at the highest levels of university leadership.

Quick Takes | Higher education round-up: Feb. 24

A weekly roundup of higher education news around the Ivy League and peer schools

Alcohol policy review committee looks to peer schools

Penn’s alcohol policy review committee has looked at peer schools’ policies in its revisions.

Quick Takes | Higher education round-up: Feb. 17

A weekly roundup of higher education news around the Ivy League and peer schools.

Calder Silcox | Time to televise the Ivies

On Friday night, the Quakers hosted the Crimson in what was one of the biggest Ivy hoops games in recent memory. Trouble was, if you weren’t there, you likely didn’t see it, and that’s a shame.

Like Penn, other Ivies see fall in applicant numbers

Following Penn’s 1.7-percent drop in overall applications for the Class of 2016, Harvard, Princeton, Brown and Columbia universities have announced decreases of 1.9, 1.7, 7 and 8.9 percent, respectively. INTERACTIVE: Ivy League Admission Rates

Harvard, Princeton early action affects Penn

Admissions officers in the Ivy League watched as many universities, including Penn, saw some slowing in their previously nosediving early admission rates, as both Harvard and Princeton universities reinstated early action programs for the first time since 2006.

Ivy League | Harvard begins week with Honors

Harvard basketball team is ranked in the national basketball for the first time in program history and Crimson DT Josue Ortiz won the award for Ivy Defensive Player of the Year.

Penn sees slight drop in early decision applications

Penn received 4,510 early-decision applications this fall, a 1.3-percent decrease from last year’s total of 4,571 applications. INTERACTIVE: Early applications to Penn 2006-2012

Penn grad students attend Ivy Summit at MIT

From Nov. 4 to Nov. 6, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology held an annual Ivy Summit, where graduate student government leaders from all eight Ivy League schools and MIT gather at one school to share ideas about how to enhance the welfare of graduate students.