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Last week, Penn graduate students withdrew their petition for a vote to unionize. A lengthy campaign — and months of heated debate between the administration and various graduate student groups — has drawn to a temporary close.
Students raised concerns about sexual assault reporting procedures and single-gender campus organizations to Penn's top leaders on Wednesday.
Days after GET-UP, Penn's pro-union graduate student group, withdrew its petition to represent graduate and professional students at Penn, members of the group have spoken out to explain the decision and to reaffirm their commitment to eventually unionize.
Employees in Philadelphia who have experienced sexual abuse now have a new outlet which to report their trauma.
Two Penn professors signed a letter openly denouncing victim-centered approaches to university sexual assault and harassment investigations.
It has been over a month since the 1963 College graduate and former Penn Trustee Stephen Wynn was accused of sexual misconduct, but the fallout from these allegations have continued.
It was just another frat party. Then Jimmy started voguing.
Two weeks after the former Penn Trustee Steve Wynn was accused of multiple accounts of sexual misconduct, Cornell University has decided to revoke the Hospitality Icon Award that was given to the hotel mogul last year. This is the latest development in the ongoing fallout from an investigation launched by the Wall Street Journal detailing a "decades-long" pattern of misconduct.
Just days after Penn announced its decision to sever ties with 1963 College graduate Steve Wynn — removing his name from "Wynn Commons," removing his name from a scholarship, and revoking his honorary degree — history and education professor Jonathan Zimmerman called on the University to more significantly acknowledge its founder's ties to slavery.
In a historic move, Penn President Amy Gutmann and Chair of Penn's Board of Trustees David L. Cohen announced Thursday they would revoke the honorary degrees of Steve Wynn and Bill Cosby and remove Wynn's name both from the outdoor signage in "Wynn Commons" and from the scholarship fund his donation created.
The following email was sent to the Penn community on February 1, 2018.
Nearly a week after reports emerged of a decades-long pattern of alleged sexual misconduct by former Penn Trustee Steve Wynn, the University announced on Thursday that it will revoke Wynn’s honorary degree, which was granted in 2006, remove the name “Wynn Commons” from the common area outside Houston Hall, and remove Wynn’s name from the scholarship fund that he established by donation.
At Yale University, a new source of underground communication has developed for women who aim to protect themselves from men they say have engaged in sexual assault or harassment.
The Penn Professional Staff Assembly sponsored a talk with Penn Provost Wendell Pritchett on Jan. 30. Roughly 50 staff members gathered in Claudia Cohen Hall to hear Pritchett discuss a variety of topics that he chose, from his personal background to University initiatives in the broader Philadelphia area.
Roughly 50 members of Penn's staff crowded into the Terrace Room of Claudia Cohen Hall at midday on Tuesday for a conversation with Provost Wendell Pritchett.
During New Student Orientation, I, along with all of my classmates, was required to attend panels and information sessions about sexual assault on campus. To my surprise, many students skipped these events, and a large portion of those who attended spent the whole time giggling or on their phones.
Members of the Graduate School of Education formed the Graduate Employees Together-University of Pennsylvania in order to improve sexual harassment policies and procedures.
The Graduate Employees Together-University of Pennsylvania published a petition in September calling for better procedures to report sexual harassment for students in the Graduate School of Education. This petition follows multiple allegations of sexual harassment perpetrated by faculty.
The website babe.net published a story two weeks ago on sexual assault allegations that detailed a date and subsequent sexual encounter between a woman (who went by the pseudonym Grace for the purposes of the story) and the comedian Aziz Ansari.
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