The Obama Administration has pushed for a college ratings system and the Department of Education will unveil the outline for one on Friday. The Department of Education will display the outline of its metrics, which the federal government will use to rate colleges.

Riepe College House's Mentors program brings Penn freshmen to tutor West Philadelphia elementary school students. Mentors is a freshman residential program that has been in place for over a decade, pairing 25 Penn freshmen with West Philadelphia elementary school students.

Penn Pakistan Society hosted a candlelight vigil for the 141 people killed in a Taliban attack on a school in Peshawar.

The president of Barnard College is weighing the possibility of adding an admissions policy for transgender students, the New York Times reports. Barnard President Debora L.

While Penn made its early decision announcement yesterday, it wasn't the only school to release its early admission decisions recently. The rest of the Ivy League as well as Stanford and MIT has released its early action and early decision numbers, which Business Insider neatly tied up in one article for your reading pleasure. MIT had the lowest acceptance rate among the top colleges listed, accepting just 9.6 percent of over 6,000 applicants.

Other Ivies accommodated law students on a case-by-case basis

James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, the architects of the C.I.A.'s interrogation techniques, applied research done by Penn professor Martin E.P.

All chapter operations have been suspended for the duration of the investigation.

A New York Times article looked into why colleges around the country haven't taken the steps necessary to eliminate the large number of binge drinking cases that plague universities. The article, written by Beth McMurtrie of The Chronicle for Higher Education, focuses on how universities have identified the issue of college drinking yet aren't fixing the problem.

2015 Cheshire Academy (Ct.) shooting guard Tyler Hamilton verally committed to Penn basketball on Monday, becoming the fifth member of the Quakers' Class of 2019, reports Alex Kline of The Recruit Scoop. Hamilton is a 6-foot-4, 180 pound guard from Norcross, Ga.

Penn admitted 24 percent of its early-decision applicant pool, a drop of 1.3 percentage points from last year's 25.3 percent acceptance rate.

A study by the Bureau of Justice Statistics found that women enrolled in college at ages 18 to 24 are less likely to be victims of sexual assault than their nonstudent counterparts. The study said that the rate of sexual assault and rape was 1.2 times higher for nonstudents than for students.

A holiday card sparked campus conversations on race relations

Gutmann’s participation in a student-led “die-in” protesting the death of 18-year old Michael Brown elicited heat from members of the Penn police force.

The United Minorities Council asked students earlier this week to write their own reasons for why #BlackLivesMatter. Members then covered the LOVE statue with over 120 of these student responses.

Students at Columbia Law School will be allowed to postpone their exams in the aftermath of the recent grand jury decisions involving Eric Garner and Michael Brown, as reported first by Powerline. An email, which was sent from Columbia Law School Interim Dean Robert Scott to students, said that "students who feel that their performance on examinations will be sufficiently impaired due to the effects of these recent events may petition" to have their exam postponed.  Students at other law schools, including Harvard and Georgetown Law, are asking for the same ability at their respective schools. Read the original email here. 

Wharton professor Adam Grant and Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg are working on a series of essays on women at work for the New York Times. The first in the four-part series examines gender stereotypes and how they are holding women back in the work place.