The referendum to divest from fossil fuels has received enough votes to be valid.
Students who don’t know where to turn now have a central option for mental health help: 215-898-HELP.
A referendum this week will reveal if Penn students support fossil fuel divestment, but the vote is only the first step in a long process leading to change. Starting Monday, Penn undergraduates can vote in a referendum on whether or not they believe the University should divest from fossil fuels.
Whether or not the “No-Loan Policy” is an achievable goal for the University of Pennsylvania at this time, the fact that Penn continues to sell the fabricated existence of the “No-Loan Policy,” while subsequently ignoring the pleas of students who are forced to take out loans, shows a “determined ambivalence” on behalf of both the University and Student Financial Services.
Penn should use this failure as grounds upon which to seek an injunction against the enforcement of these regulations, which mandate a system which is both deeply flawed in theory and in practice has an abominably bad record at delivering justice for students.
With a recently released report on Penn’s mental health resources, the friends and family of Madison Holleran reflect on the University’s efforts to improve psychological support since her death last year.
With a recently released report on Penn’s mental health resources, the friends and family of Madison Holleran reflect on the University’s efforts to improve psychological support since her death last year.
Students who don’t know where to turn now have a central option for mental health help: 215-898-HELP.
A referendum this week will reveal if Penn students support fossil fuel divestment, but the vote is only the first step in a long process leading to change. Starting Monday, Penn undergraduates can vote in a referendum on whether or not they believe the University should divest from fossil fuels.
Student backlash against the University's PILOTs police — or lack thereof — has brought Penn's relationship with the City of Brotherly Love under public scrutiny.
Researchers continue to criticize the sexual violence campus climate survey that Penn will administer in the spring.
Penn’s mental health task force recommendations have provoked students to question whether the administration is taking the right steps to promote mental wellness at all.
In a nondescript house on Chestnut Street, the Red and Blue Call Center hardly bears the appearance of a fundraising center that brings millions to campus each year.
Ryan Keytack left to become director of Four-Year Houses & Residential Programs at Penn.
Giang Nguyen, the current Medical Director of Penn Family Care, says he's interested in working with and hearing the healthcare needs of students on campus.
A part of Penn’s campus under the Provost’s office, the ICA collaborates with other schools for student involvement.
The Vice Provost and the Center for Teaching and Learning have asked professors to submit proposals for new SAIL classes by Feb. 20.
It is a key tenet of our societal notions of justice and fairness that the judgement of a single individual, no matter how deeply we might trust that individual’s commitment to do what is right, is an insufficient basis upon which to decide that a person has committed a criminal act.
The Fox family has donated over $33 million since 1999.
Theodore Ruger, Penn Law School’s deputy dean since 2013, has been named the school’s new dean, effective July 1.
Created in the wake of six student suicides in 15 months, the Task Force on Student Psychological Health and Welfare released its final report on Tuesday.
US Ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power, has been named the 2015 Commencement Speaker.
While many of our peer institutions also offer community space and more financial aid resources to international students, the request for an extended ISO, a proper transition to campus, is simple to satisfy.
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