For many Penn students, Spring Break is no break at all.

Without the option of merit-based scholarships, Penn cannot lure outstanding athletes or writing prodigies with money — but recruited students do find value in community.

Recitations don't lead themselves — at the front of the classroom, teaching assistants must balance their responsibilities with their student obligations.

For a few Penn professors, politics is not only something to teach — it’s something that runs in the family.

Wharton’s Department of Student Life decided cut the cohort program to only include freshman and sophomores.

The English Department has received a flurry of praise in recent weeks, including a No. 2 ranking in the country from College Factual. But New York Times opinion columnist Frank Bruni did not speak fondly of the department in a Feb. 18 op-ed.

Any student who had already declared the Cognitive Science major, however, would not be asked to switch.

Five Engineering seniors are changing the life of an 8-year-old boy while revolutionizing the field of 3-D printed prosthetics for their senior project.

An internal review committee at Penn reported to the Journal in June that the error was unintentional.

After visiting Penn last spring, Buzz Bissinger, a 1976 College graduate and long-time Philadelphian, was inspired. Bissinger will be teaching a non-fiction creative writing course at Penn next semester.

The Medical College Admission Test has been significantly altered for students taking the exam from 2015 onwards. The new version of the exam is longer and will cover more subjects.

Not all Wharton undergraduate alumni come back to campus just for homecoming weekend. Some return for two more years to earn three more letters: MBA.

Vijay Kumar has been named the new dean of The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Universities like Penn have seen dozens of protests in the aftermath of Ferguson, and student activism continues to call attention to national race relation issues. But some racial issues hit even closer to home at universities, right in the field of academia.

The liberal arts system popular in the United States is different in the sense that it gives students the ability to explore, combine and connect subjects in a variety of ways, a freedom which has a value often overlooked.

The English Department is expanding its course offerings to offer a more integrative, hands-on education.

Dartmouth College is the first school to turn the social movement into a class this spring.