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The Penn community navigated many immigration policy changes this year, one of the biggest being Trump's announcement to discontinue the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program by March 2018.
Graduate students met with an administrator and faculty on Dec. 8 to discuss any plans Penn has to respond to the Republican tax bill and to address any concerns during an hour and a half at a town hall.
Just feet away from the Offices of the President and Provost, about 50 graduate students sat in the lobby of College Hall on Nov. 29 to protest the GOP tax bill. The event, organized by the student group campaigning for graduate students to unionize, Graduate Employees Together – University of Pennsylvania, is part of a larger nationwide movement against the Republican tax plan anticipated for a Senate vote later this week. On the same day, two other events were organized at Penn by graduate student groups with similar intentions of campaigning against the GOP tax bill.
More than five months have passed since graduate students at Penn petitioned the Philadelphia’s National Labor Relations Board to hold a formal union recognition election, but the process has yet to move forward. These delays were made clear in light of the recent unionization of graduate students at the University of Chicago, who launched their petition just weeks before Penn did.
The University's implementation of new polices regulating social events has sparked confusion and discontent from the undergraduate community, but for most graduate students, event planning has been business as usual. In fact, various graduate student leaders have said they were completely unaware of the new proposals to change the regulations surrounding graduate student social events.
Several Penn faculty and teaching staff have received strong backlash for making strong political statements this semester, prompting a growing discussion over how and whether the University should act when professors choose to air their personal views in a public forum.
Quakers for Life, a Penn student group opposed to abortion, protested outside Van Pelt Library on Oct. 23, displaying nearly 20 graphic pictures of aborted fetuses. The group partnered with Created Equal, a national anti-abortion organization, for the protest, which attracted more than a few glances from students commuting on Locust Walk.
Seven months after graduate students in the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly made a proposal for Penn to introduce a centralized diversity office, the nature of the centralization remains disputed between the administration and GAPSA.
In the latest series of new programming for first-generation students, several Penn-affiliated organizations are establishing unprecedented intentional resources for first-generation graduate students this semester.
As she took to the podium at Fitts Auditorium in Penn Law School on Oct. 11, Penn Law professor Amy Wax silenced a rowdy auditorium of more than 300 law students, faculty and staff in a talk sponsored by the Penn Federalist Society.
Both graduate associates and residential advisors are tasked with supporting their fellow students, but only GAs are permitted to stay in their dorm rooms over the summer.
Five Graduate School of Education students have started a petition to improve sexual harassment policies within their school after students have called attention to instances of sexual harassment by faculty.
When Persian literature professor Fatemeh Shams woke up the morning of Sept. 27, she was devastated to hear that officials of the United States Embassy in Dubai had rejected her Iranian mother's visitor visa without reason, prolonging the amount of time that she has been unable to see her mother in person.
Student leaders from all the undergraduate and graduate schools are calling on Penn to provide more resources to students threatened by the Trump administration's recent decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.
A group of Penn students has launched an ambitious new movement encouraging students to participate in philanthropic activities in exchange for networking opportunities.
Over four days, an online fundraiser launched by members of Penn's Mexican student association, Mex@Penn, has raised more than $45,000 to aid relief efforts for a recent earthquake in Mexico.
Job hunting at Penn brings up a distinct image of undergraduate students dressed in formal wear, hurrying down Locust Walk complete with backpacks and padfolios, but the scenario is quite different for graduates seeking jobs in academia.
Situated across from the Quad and easily mistaken for another Penn academic building with its large archways and yellow brick exterior, The Wistar Institute, an independent biomedical research institute, is celebrating its 125th anniversary this year with a range of events.
As a schoolgirl in West Philadelphia, Penn Lecturer in Creative Writing Lorene Cary never thought she would be honored by the city for her work.
The face of New Student Orientation is often a bright-eyed undergraduate freshman, though hundreds of graduate students will also embark on their version of NSO starting today.