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The Ortner Center on Violence & Abuse in Relationships hosted a panel discussion on the prevalence of violence against women in the military on Tuesday evening.
Many academics use Twitter to spread their ideas and promote discussion. However, a new Penn study found female researchers in health services and health policy appeared to be less influential than their male counterparts on the platform, which could reinforce gender biases in the field.
The 2019 Association of American Universities survey results show little change from 2015 in the number of students who say they experienced unwanted sexual contact on Penn's campus.
The idea for a coalition tackling sexual misconduct came from a panel hosted by The Graduate and Professional Student Assembly’s Sexual Harassment Reform Committee, titled “#AcademiaToo: The Impact of Sexual Harassment in the Academy.”
Penn graduate students have started a new organization to combat sexual harassment in academia.
Two years after it first petitioned to become a union, the graduate student group Graduate Employees Together – University of Pennsylvania will no longer be allowed to unionize after an anticipated National Labor Relations Board decision.
Greg Callaghan, the next president of Graduate and Professional Students Assembly, will focus on restructuring GAPSA in response to the organization's growth.
Penn Graduate School of Education professor Marybeth Gasman has been accused of fostering a racially insensitive and sexually inappropriate climate in her workplace on campus.
Penn instituted a new policy for revoking degrees from graduates who used fraud or other serious wrongdoing to obtain them.
Three months after the previous director of Penn Violence Prevention left the position, Penn is still in the process of hiring a new leader to replace Jessica Mertz, who worked at the University since 2009.
Wharton dean Geoffrey Garrett will leave Penn to serve as dean of the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business.
When Jessica Mertz became the inaugural director of Penn Violence Prevention in 2014, the office had just one employee — Jessica Mertz. She has since helped the office grow to employ three full-time staff as well as half a dozen students. Mertz has occupied many different positions on campus, but she has always remained at the forefront of Penn's fight to end sexual violence. A decade after arriving at her first job on campus, Mertz will leave Penn in May to become the executive director of the Clery Center, whose mission is to create safer campuses for college students nationwide.
In 2018, GSE Ph.D. candidate Jennifer Phuong authored a petition for improved procedures for reporting sexual harassment. The University later updated its sexual harassment policy.
About 30 people gathered in Houston Hall to discuss sexual harassment and its impact on graduate students and faculty at Penn Tuesday night.
About 30 people gathered in Houston Hall to discuss sexual harassment and its impact on graduate students and faculty at Penn Tuesday night.
In the first episode of DP’s roundtable discussion series, three opinion columnists approach the topic of how the University of Pennsylvania should approach sexual assault allegations among Penn-associated figures.
Candace Owens, a prominent conservative commentator and political activist, was met with fierce protests before delivering a fiery anti-leftist speech on campus Monday night.
Miguel, this year’s Spring Fling concert headliner, was accused of forcibly grabbing the breast of University of New Mexico student Xian Bass and removing it from her shirt without her consent in 2017. While he denied the allegation, students have organized a Facebook event, titled “Stand Against Miguel at Fling,” encouraging students to walk out of the concert early or skip it entirely to “protest his predatory behavior.”
More than 100 Penn and Drexel students marched to protest sexual assault and relationship violence on Penn’s campus Thursday night as part of Take Back the Night, an annual event hosted by the Penn chapter of Abuse and Sexual Assault Prevention.
In February 2018, the University announced that it would rename Wynn Commons and rescind former Penn trustee Steve Wynn and Bill Cosby’s honorary degrees after they were both accused of sexual misconduct. On March 21, similar allegations surfaced against the philanthropist, Wharton graduate, and Penn Hillel building namesake Michael Steinhardt. Six women told ProPublica and the New York Times that Steinhardt made sexual requests to them. He also allegedly made comments to women about their bodies and fertility.
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