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Penn will implement three new initiatives next fall to improve wellness on campus. The decision was made at the final round of the "Your Big Idea" wellness competition, where judges chose themed walks, nature prescriptions, and urban farms as the winners.
The Graduate and Professional Student Assembly elected fifth-year Ancient History Ph.D. candidate Greg Callaghan and fourth-year Nursing Ph.D. candidate Matthew Lee as GAPSA's next president and vice president, respectively, on April 24.
An animal café, an app that provides walking routes in the area, and embedded Counseling and Psychological Services clinicians in all four undergraduate schools are among ideas being considered by Penn to improve mental wellness on campus.
At the first annual community discussion for first-generation, low-income graduate students, panelists described their earliest memories as FGLI students and the challenges they faced in academics and being separated from their families.
More than 30 people from across Penn and University City gathered at a panel about supporting graduate students with autism on Monday. The panelists, who are leaders in advocacy for autistic students, spoke about the discrimination autistic grad students face and the need for faculty to be better trained in supporting them.
When Penn proposed creating a centralized sexual misconduct reporting office in September 2018, many graduate students — who advocated for the office — welcomed it as a step in the right direction.
Former Penn employee Kenya Harris alleges she was unlawfully terminated from her job after requesting an extension of her leave which she was on for breast cancer treatment. The lawsuit, filed on Feb. 11 against the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Pennsylvania Health System, claims the defendants violated the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Penn launched an online challenge this week calling on students, faculty, and staff to submit ideas to enhance wellness on campus. The project, titled the "Your Big Idea" challenge, also allows people to view, rate, and comment on all of the suggestions.
More than 50 students and professionals from Philadelphia joined panelists to discuss transgender issues in education and the workplace on Penn's campus. The event was part of Philadelphia’s third annual Black Lives Matter Week of Action.
While graduate students make up more than half of Penn's 25,000 students, many have grown frustrated with the lack of graduate-specific spaces on campus.
The ceiling in the basement lounge of Harnwell College House was leaking water for more than an hour Saturday afternoon.
Graduate students at Penn said that a union will not occur, after students at Columbia and Brown voted to unionize in November.
Penn's School of Dental Medicine was one of the first schools to implement the Counseling and Psychological Services' program of embedding clinicians in schools to make mental health resources more accessible for students. But despite efforts by administrators to improve the system, Dental students still say they face obstacles in utilizing the services.
When Laronnda Thompson started her Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies and Human Development at Penn, she had already had experience navigating a university with a disability. Thompson was born with osteogenesis imperfecta, or brittle bone disorder, which puts her bones at risk of breaking easily, so she has to move around campus in a wheelchair.
While the University of Pennsylvania has long offered flexible degree options for nontraditional students, the continued push toward online graduate degrees has expanded the reach of the programs and helped to alleviate some of the logistical challenges such students face.
Over the past year, undergraduate housing and the policy surrounding it has garnered considerable attention. Penn has announced that it would construct the new undergraduate dorm New College House West, install air conditioning in Kings Court English College House and Du Bois College House next summer, and renovate the Quad in the next five to seven years.
In a packed room in College Hall on Wednesday night, former Governor of Florida Jeb Bush gave his first talk at Penn since being named the second Presidential Practice Professor. Bush addressed the partisan nature in politics today and the lack of dialogue that exists across the aisle, urging conservatives to return to the idea that America is the land of opportunity.
Amid ongoing efforts for greater inclusion, the Office of the Provost now requires all faculty members involved in faculty searches across schools to undergo unconscious bias training.
Penn announced on Sept. 24 that Michael DiBerardinis, the managing director of Philadelphia, will join the Fels Institute of Government faculty in January 2019 as a professor of practice. This comes amid ongoing alumni efforts for Fels to be more transparent about the drastic administrative turnover within Fels and include input from the larger Fels community, including alumni, students, and other stakeholders.
The University of Pennsylvania's graduate Philosophy Department no longer requires applicants to provide scores for the Graduate Record Exam — a decision that has ignited debate among universities around the topic of fair admission.