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(05/14/14 10:05pm)
Sometime around the start of senior year, I was riding the elevator up to my room in Harrison. Several freshmen were standing next to me, paging through that day’s copy of the DP. “How often is it published?” one asked. “Every other day,” another answered. “Nah, it’s once a week,” a third chimed in.
(12/11/13 12:48am)
More than two years after Penn launched an ambitious plan to jumpstart the hiring of minority faculty members, a report released Tuesday shows that those efforts have yet to move the needle substantially.
(12/06/13 12:23am)
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(11/25/13 10:34pm)
When Penn announced its partnership with massive open online course provider Coursera, in April 2012, administrators lauded the education startup as a way for the University to push its access agenda forward on a global scale. By making parts of a Penn education available to students worldwide, Coursera, administrators said, had the ability to revolutionize higher education.
(11/24/13 9:10pm)
They don’t call Ed Rendell “America’s mayor” for nothing.
(11/22/13 2:04am)
As the president’s motorcade rolled through the Dallas streets minutes before 12:30 p.m. on Nov. 22, 1963, Vicki Bendit sat with her grandmother in the living room of the family’s Huntingdon Valley home.
(11/21/13 11:58pm)
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(11/18/13 11:17pm)
A new pilot program that allows some on-campus events to serve hard alcohol has been extended into a second year.
(11/15/13 2:00am)
A weekly roundup of news from around higher education.
(11/15/13 12:02am)
Scott Mackler, a longtime Penn professor, pioneering addiction researcher and physician who battled for 15 years with Lou Gehrig’s disease, died Wednesday evening at his Delaware home following complications with the disease. He was 55.
(11/10/13 9:17pm)
Penn’s Board of Trustees held its fall meetings on Thursday and Friday at the Inn at Penn. Here, The Daily Pennsylvanian gets you caught up on what was discussed during the Trustees’ individual committee meetings last week.
(11/08/13 7:43pm)
Penn will hold a campus-wide memorial service for the late former president Sheldon Hackney in March, the University announced at a Board of Trustees meeting on Friday.
(11/08/13 1:13am)
A weekly roundup of news from around higher education.
(11/07/13 2:26pm)
Two prominent Penn families are the lead donors to a new Hill Field college house, a project that will break ground on Friday.
(11/06/13 11:58pm)
Last month, Coursera, a pioneer of massive open online courses, announced that it would begin partnering with a major Chinese internet company, opening the door to MOOCs for millions of students in China.
(11/01/13 1:19am)
Soon after Katie Lapp was hired as Harvard University’s executive vice president in 2009, Craig Carnaroli, her counterpart at Penn, came to visit her at the university’s Cambridge campus.
(10/31/13 7:24pm)
A weekly round-up of news from around higher education
(10/31/13 12:27am)
As the University wraps up its celebration tour for the Making History fundraising campaign, President Amy Gutmann is turning her attention to the “Penn Compact 2020,” a renewal of her strategic priorities that was launched earlier this semester.
(10/25/13 2:08am)
A weekly round-up of news from around higher education.
(10/24/13 9:54pm)
In two weeks, Penn is planning a schoolwide celebration of an upcoming college house on Hill Field, a project that was at the top of President Amy Gutmann’s priority list during the Making History fundraising campaign.