Curriculum falls between peers' extremes
At Columbia University, every student must read Shakespeare. But at Brown University, a student can graduate without ever opening a math textbook.
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At Columbia University, every student must read Shakespeare. But at Brown University, a student can graduate without ever opening a math textbook.
The Daily Pennsylvanian
The women's studies program could undergo a complete transformation by next fall, effectively shifting the focus of the department to more general gender studies.
Members of the Class of 2010 are only five months away from advance course registration, and College of Arts and Sciences administrators are trying to make sure they have a new curriculum ready for them to take part in.
A federal proposal could give students with financial need money for college -- provided they graduated from a "rigorous" high school.
As College of Arts and Sciences officials get ready to introduce a global culture curricular requirement this fall, the question of whether a similar requirement for U.S. society should be implemented remains unanswered.
A committee on academic freedom in Pennsylvania is touring the state, assailed by critics with comparisons to the 1950s McCarthy hearings and finding support from conservative voices, all the while sparking a nationwide debate about politics in the classroom.
When developing an advertising campaign for a school with one of the top marketing departments in the nation, Wharton School administrators have turned to an unlikely source -- an external advertising agency.
Tulane undergraduates will return to a university coping with huge financial losses, impending faculty cuts and about 15 percent fewer students when classes resume at the newly reopened New Orleans campus on Jan. 17.
As controversial radio personality Howard Stern prepares this week for his last broadcast before moving to satellite radio, some members of the media community fear this is the beginning of the end of radio as we know it.
The Penn Democrats and College Republicans were overshadowed by a third party at last night's debate: moderator Charles Forer.
University President Amy Gutmann was planning to wear her red and blue Baby Phat outfit while introducing Russell Simmons last night, but unfortunately, she said, it was still at the cleaners.
The residents of Biloxi, Miss., and 10 other cities along the Gulf Coast are striving to rebuild what Hurricane Katrina destroyed.
Sandy Sorlien is a lecturer in the Department of Fine Arts in the School of Design. She teaches one course entitled the Photography of the Urban Place.
Fairmount Park has been a place of refuge for Philadelphians seeking quiet from the bustle of the city since the 1870s.
Columbia professor Gary Sick believes Iran's nuclear program is growing, U.S.-Iran relations are getting worse and the United States' will continue to expand its formal presence in the Persian Gulf region.
Penn professors who attended a dialogue on racial issues and Hurricane Katrina hope that America will take a lesson from past disasters and ensure that blacks are equally cared for in New Orleans and in the future.
Anthropology professor Gregory Possehl's boat currently rests 6,000 feet beneath the Arabian Sea.
Blue skies and festive balloon arrangements greeted students as they gathered on College Green to take a trip around the world at Penn's first International Tailgate Festival.