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Two months into her tenure, newly appointed Penn Violence Prevention Director Elise Scioscia spoke to The Daily Pennsylvanian about her goals.
A Penn Faculty Senate committee recommended that the Senate examine how the University balances academic freedom and tenure protections with "faculty misbehaviors."
Penn announced the new director of Penn Violence Prevention on Thursday, filling a nearly year-long vacancy.
As voters across the state head to the polls this November, some will have the option to re-elect former Quaker Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (D-Pa.) into office.
The Penn Women’s Center plans to appoint a permanent director by the end of the semester, as current students and staff work to fill the gap left by the departure of its previous director.
After allegations of sexual and professional misconduct resulting in two years of administrative leave, Harvard University professor John L. Comaroff returned to teaching this semester.
As Liz Magill begins her role as Penn's ninth president on Friday, July 1, the Penn community calls on her to take action to address several issues, including Penn's role in West Philadelphia, involvement in climate change, and more.
I am crushed, angry, scared, and hopeless, all at once.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art named Sasha Suda, current director of the National Gallery of Canada, as its director and CEO on June 7.
Among other duties, the lieutenant governor presides as president of the state Senate — voting in case of a tie. There are three Democrats and nine Republicans running for this position in the primary.
Top University officials allegedly manipulated a Perelman School of Medicine investigation into years of workplace abuse allegations within the Gene Therapy Program in order to protect its financial interests and director Jim Wilson, according to internal reports obtained by The Daily Pennsylvanian.
All but four of the 38 Harvard University faculty members who wrote an open letter questioning the results of professor John Comaroff's Title IX investigation signed a new letter retracting their support.
Following Harvard's decision to enact sanctions against professor John Comaroff — who has received misconduct allegations — 38 Harvard faculty members signed an open letter questioning the results of the investigation.
With the return of the full student body to Penn’s campus, the fight over replacing the remaining fraternities on Locust Walk with cultural and resource centers has inevitably resumed. The recent assault at Psi Upsilon’s Castle has spurred a petition nearing 6,000 signatures, and it is likely that the Coalition Against Fraternity Sexual Assault’s campaign events, which flourished pre-pandemic, will return with renewed force.
The University is adding multi-stall, all-gender bathrooms for future buildings on campus, but student groups are still advocating for renovations to existing buildings that are popular among community members.
Penn’s Gene Therapy Program is at the forefront of pioneering biotechnology developments — but employees allege a toxic workplace environment lies behind the allure and that Penn is ignoring their complaints to protect the moneymaking program.
A towering house, fit for a king. A cardboard sign reading “Racists live here,” and a crowd of students chanting “Silence is violence.” Chalk graffiti on the red bricks of Locust asking, “No one did anything. Would you?”
You are not a hero for walking a drunk girl home. You do not deserve praise for your silence as “the boys” objectify women. You should not be put on a pedestal because you could have been a bad guy, but “you’re not like that.” That is not enough. You should not only care about what happens to women just because we are your sisters, your mothers, your classmates, and your friends. You should care because we are people and the comments some write off as “compliments,” the grazes that last a second too long, and the constant cycle of violence in the news have aggregated to a boiling point of frustration and exhaustion.
Last month, President Joe Biden announced an executive order reviewing Title IX regulations and how they pertain to sexual misconduct. This review comes less than a year after the Trump administration released rules that, among other things, narrowed the definition of sexual harassment to offenses that are “severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive” as well as restricted the type of offenses universities must intervene in to those occurring on campus or “in conjunction with an education program or activity."
Penn students and experts support President Joe Biden’s recent orders to review Title IX policies on sex- and gender-based discrimination at universities, and also insist that Penn needs to provide further support to victims of sexual assault.
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