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(03/17/21 8:23pm)
Top Penn administrators sent an email to the Penn community denouncing rising violence and discrimination against Asians and Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic.
(03/09/21 5:51am)
Emeritus Board of Trustees member and 1962 College graduate Paul K. Kelly, who transformed the Kelly Writers House, died earlier this month due to complications from COVID-19.
(03/02/21 4:22am)
Faculty and staff who were not required to complete work in person this semester will not be required to return to campus until July 2021 at the earliest.
(03/01/21 4:54am)
From being told they’re not a “good fit” to being pressured into dropping courses, Black students at Penn, inspired by the country’s racial reckoning, took to social media this past summer to allege patterns of racial discrimination and exclusion against the Chemistry Department.
(02/04/21 5:32am)
While thousands of students are living on campus for a hybrid spring semester, many chose to not return to Philadelphia at all in fear of contracting the virus.
(02/01/21 9:37am)
Some Penn professors have mixed feelings about sending their children to in-person classes as the Philadelphia School District attempts to reopen for the third time this year during the pandemic.
(11/25/20 5:37am)
Psychology professor Angela Duckworth is preparing to teach her innovative course on achieving long-term goals for the third consecutive semester this upcoming spring. Unlike before, however, the course will now enroll high school students alongside Penn students.
(11/24/20 3:57am)
Penn has consistently ranked as one of the most LGBTQ-friendly universities for the past 10 years — a title some LGBTQ students say is deserving of the University.
(10/23/20 2:36am)
Lambda Alliance, the umbrella organization for LGBTQ student groups on campus, has started a new buddy program that pairs LGBTQ undergraduate students with each other to help facilitate a sense of community during the online semester.
(09/15/20 4:28am)
Students looking for a space to celebrate their cultures and identities are no longer able to find comfort in the basement of ARCH, where three of the six cultural resource centers are housed.
(07/31/20 4:03am)
Following backlash from its initial hybrid reopening plan, the School District of Philadelphia has announced it will reopen under a fully online instruction model this fall.
(07/29/20 5:23am)
Co-director of Penn Justice Democrats and rising College junior Jack Cahill will serve as a delegate for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) at the upcoming 2020 Democratic National Convention.
(07/22/20 4:34am)
Last spring, renowned Psychology professor and New York Times bestselling author Angela Duckworth began teaching a course unlike any other at Penn: enrolling 60 students across the four undergraduate schools graded on a mandatory pass-fail basis and featuring weekly alumni guest speakers.
(07/16/20 4:15am)
Philadelphia's public schools will reopen in September under a hybrid learning model, in an effort to prioritize both the health and education of 202,000 students in 342 schools.
(07/15/20 3:47am)
Penn's Academically Based Community Service courses, many of which work directly with the School District of Philadelphia, are awaiting decisions on how to conduct courses in the fall.
(07/10/20 6:44am)
Police Free Penn is an assembly of Penn community members calling to abolish policing and transform community safety at the University.
(07/06/20 3:55am)
Penn Democrats president and rising College senior Owen Voutsinas-Klose will serve as a delegate for former Vice President Joe Biden at the upcoming 2020 Democratic National Convention.
(06/24/20 6:17am)
Surrounded by broken windows and burning police cars amid a citywide Black Lives Matter protest, 2020 College graduate Eiman Eltigani said she felt like she was living through a scene in a movie.
(06/19/20 4:10am)
On Thursday, Philadelphia's City Council unanimously passed all five bills in the Emergency Housing Protection Act, securing protections for struggling renters in Philadelphia amid the national economic crisis caused by the pandemic.
(06/19/20 5:31am)
Penn encouraged students and faculty to take the day off from regular work on Juneteenth to take time to reflect on systemic racism.