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.

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.

Evelyn Wiener, the director of Student Health Services, died on Thursday. She was 62.

The proposed additions would add specific definitions for relationship violence, domestic violence and stalking.

The four committees presented their findings on a variety of topics at the University Council meeting Wednesdauy

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. 

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.

Andrew Porter, the outgoing dean of the Graduate School of Education, will leave behind a legacy of increased emphasis on research and innovation.

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.

Provost Vincent Price's term is set to end on June 30, 2016.

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.

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.

Don Memo Mexican Restaurant will be coming to campus next month, the University announced Sunday.

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.

Friends and family of former Penn President Sheldon Hackney remembered his life in Irvine Auditorium on Thursday night.

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.

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.