Administration
After unionizing setbacks, grad students say advocacy efforts frustrated by administrators
A key focus going forward for GET-UP is continuing to promote its ongoing campaign for improved sexual harassment reporting policies in the Graduate School of Education.
Joe Biden talks gun control, voting, and friendship bracelets with Obama at Irvine
Introduced as 'Penn’s own,' Biden engaged in a dialogue with Penn President Amy Gutmann about international affairs, cancer, and the presidential administrations.
UPDATED: Penn Law student, Jonathan Lumpkin, died in an accidental drug overdose
Lumpkin was the second Penn student to die in 2018. His death comes two weeks after the disappearance of College sophomore Blaze Bernstein, who was later found to have died on Jan. 2.
Campus is abuzz over Penn Law professor Amy Wax's controversial op-ed, which called for return of 'bourgeois' cultural values
The pro-union group Graduate Employees Together — University of Pennsylvania, better known as GET-UP, blasted Amy Wax's op-ed as "hateful and regressive" and called on Penn President Amy Gutmann to condemn it.
Penn Law is not changing its admissions policy, even as other schools make the LSAT optional
"There is no change in our admissions policy for the 2017 – 2018 cycle," said Renee Post, Penn Law associate dean for admissions and financial aid, in a statement.
Grant-based aid restored for some fifth year students, while others stay in limbo
A selected group of rising fifth-year undergraduates in the Engineering School will continue to receive financial aid for the coming semester but not for any semesters after that, according to the Bioengineering department's email.
Graduate students wanted to vote on their labor union months ago. Here’s why they haven’t.
Penn contested the terms of a crucial vote at the National Labor Relations Board for three months, delaying the efforts of pro-union graduate students.
Engineering student who died treated life as an adventure
Johnathan Smith, 21, was studying mechanical engineering and was involved in the Trinidad and Tobago Art Society.
Penn continues to face an uncertain future on state funding for the coming fiscal year
Until legislators can find a way to fund the Pennsylvania state budget, Penn and three other state-related Universities will not receive funding.
Patient sues doctor and Penn over alleged sexual assault that occurred in Penn Presbyterian Medical Center
During an appointment in Leonard Rosenfeld's office on the premises of Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, a patient claims he hypnotized her before sexually assaulting her.
Penn says rebranding its financial aid policy doesn't change anything. Students aren't so sure.
For some students, the name changes mask a policy that does not appear to have been enforced consistently or explained entirely accurately by financial aid officers.
HUP was cited by Philadelphia state inspectors for having dirty bed railings
In a report made public this month, state inspectors at the Pennsylvania Department of Health found that janitorial staff had failed to successfully clean the hospital bed railings back in the fall.
Forbes named Penn Medicine the 7th best employer in the country. Staffers explain why.
Employees praised Penn Medicine's culture, which values hard work, intelligence and playfulness.
Penn lags behind many of its peers in affordability and access rankings
The most recent such ranking, published by MONEY, a magazine part of Time, Inc., listed Penn 27th on a list of the 711 "best colleges for your money."
An expert in antitrust law is the latest Penn Integrates Knowledge professor
A New York Times piece from 2011 called Herbert Hovenkamp “the dean of American antitrust law.”
Biology professor Paul Sniegowski is named new Dean of the College
Sniegowski will take the reins on July 1 from Andy Binns, who filled in as interim dean in the spring while Dennis DeTurck, the longtime College dean, was on a leave of absence.
Bob Schoenberg, the longtime director of the LGBT Center, is retiring
"The one thing that I think that most of Penn doesn't know is that he brought this center from absolutely nothing to the biggest campus LGBT center in the United States," Sean Collins, a rising senior in the College and the chair of the Lambda Alliance said.
A power outage led to some interruptions in network connectivity on campus
If you noticed a delay in email services from your Penn email account, this might be the reason.