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Administration

05/15/14 2:45pm

For adjuncts, a disappointing academic experience

The replacement of tenure-track faculty positions with adjunct, or contingent, faculty positions at universities has gained significant public attention in the past year. Now, two organizations are targeting the perceived inequity that contingent faculty are facing.
05/14/14 1:54pm

Annenberg dean extends term until 2018

Dean of the Annenberg School of Communication  Michael Delli Carpini, who was appointed dean in 2003, has agreed to extend his deanship until June 30, 2018.
05/12/14 6:01pm

SHS director died on Thursday

Evelyn Wiener, the director of Student Health Services, died on Thursday. She was 62.
05/06/14 5:15pm

Penn proposes revisions to sexual violence policy

The proposed additions would add specific definitions for relationship violence, domestic violence and stalking.
04/30/14 7:37pm

University council discusses nap spaces, political bullies

The four committees presented their findings on a variety of topics at the University Council meeting Wednesdauy
04/30/14 3:07pm

CAPS trains students, faculty to care for those around them

iCare, a new initiative by CAPS, is intended to integrate a variety of different approaches through an eight-hour workshop in order to help further the mental health conversation on campus. 
04/20/14 6:27pm

Mental health task force organizing, meeting with students

Two months after the University administration convened a mental health task force in response to a string of student suicides, the task force is still in its organizational phase.
04/17/14 10:25pm
Andrew Porter, the outgoing dean of the Graduate School of Education, will leave behind a legacy of increased emphasis on research and innovation.
04/13/14 7:57pm
Students were frustrated with the University's recent proposal for the sign's text, which generally describes all of the stained glass panes in the ARCH, without any specific details on the rising sun.
04/09/14 12:37am

Consultative committee for Provost's reappointment announced

Provost Vincent Price's term is set to end on June 30, 2016.
04/08/14 9:11am

UPDATED: Wendell Pritchett appointed interim Penn Law Dean

On Tuesday afternoon, President Amy Gutmann and Vice Provost Vincent Price announced Wendell Pritchett as the interim dean of the Law School in the upcoming academic school year.
03/30/14 11:30pm

Joke Issue: Penn offered $2 billion to buy Drexel

Newly uncovered documents show the University offered to purchase Drexel University in November, but the offer was dropped when the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice threatened to block the proposed merger.
03/30/14 8:57pm

Joke Issue: Finding Memo's: Mexican restaurant to come to campus

Don Memo Mexican Restaurant will be coming to campus next month, the University announced Sunday.
03/27/14 9:54pm
John L. Jackson Jr., the next dean of the School of Social Policy & Practice, is the only one of four recently appointed deans who currently teaches at Penn.
03/27/14 6:24pm
Friends and family of former Penn President Sheldon Hackney remembered his life in Irvine Auditorium on Thursday night.
03/26/14 6:27pm

SP2 dean leaves legacy of revitalization, and a changed name

After 13 years as Dean of the School of Social Policy & Practice, Richard Gelles' contributions to SP2 have truly opened the door to a new era in the school’s history.
03/25/14 9:09pm
Following the fifth student suicide in 12 months, the University announced the creation of new permanent clinical positions at Counseling and Psychological Services for this fall — a move administrators say likely would have occurred without the student deaths.
03/23/14 12:59pm

Chair of Physics and Astronomy department appointed Associate Dean of Natural Sciences

As Associate Dean, Larry Gladney will oversee the Departments of Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Astronomy, Earth and Environmental Science, Mathematics, Linguistics and Psychology, in addition to a number of research centers.
03/19/14 6:12pm
Cohen wants to see more financial transparency in political campaigns, based on his experiences first as campaign manager and then as chief of staffuncapitalized for former Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell during Rendell's Philadelphia mayorship.
03/19/14 12:00pm
John Jackson, the Richard Perry University professor at Penn and a senior advisor for diversity in the Office of the Provost, is a cultural anthropologist, author and documentary filmmaker.