The total cost of attendance increased from $63,526 to $66,000 for the upcoming academic year. Concurrently, Penn’s student financial aid budget also increased 3.9 percent, from $208 million to $214 million.

Steiner’s new position is effective July 1, President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price announced. 

For students who have to miss class because of religious holidays, getting access to lecture material is not always a click away on Canvas. 

Penn, along with 55 other wealthy colleges in the U.S., received a letter from the Senate Finance Committee and the House Means and Ways Committee with questions on their endowments.

Currently, for Penn employees, taking a maternity leave quite often means not being able to take off any more days after returning to work, even if their child is sick. 

This year’s Ivy Policy Conference, themed “Inequalities Across College Campuses,” will take place at Penn.

The Center for Minority Serving Institutions received a $5.1 million grant to support a program to increase the number of Latino professors working in the humanities in U.S. colleges and universities.

“We will not tolerate any discrimination, intimidation or threats against any Muslims in our community,” she said. “That applies to all faiths but I do single out Muslims because they are being singled out now.”

One year ago today, Penn released the final report of the Task Force on Student Psychological Health and Welfare.

Beginning March 1, sexual violence complaints against faculty will be funneled through the Office of the Sexual Violence Investigative Officer.

From Feb. 12 to Feb. 14, Penn hosted an all-Ivy conference on mental health, titled "Unmasking the Ivy League".

Academia isn’t usually thought of as a typical business, where employees “climb the ladder” to more prestigious positions, but many of Penn’s administrators have done just that, starting as professors and taking on more responsibilities as they ascend the ranks.

Biden is leading a “moon shot” effort to create tangible milestones in cancer treatment, which is especially meaningful after the loss of his son, former Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, to brain cancer only last year.

Penn is part of a group of 20 schools that gets roughly 30 percent of all college donations in the U.S.

After spending eight years running America’s fifth-largest city, Michael Nutter is now teaching students how he did it.

On a campus where pre-med and business tracks are some of the most popular, the arts will soon assume a more prominent role in the students' educational experience.

Students will be able to post stories, photos and videos in order to connect with one another.