Administration
Students present success of Penn's voting engagement groups at Trustees comittee meeting
The panel explored a series of student and university programs increasing voting awareness among both college students and high school students in the city.
About 100 Fossil Free Penn members shut down Board of Trustees meeting
The meeting ended about 20 minutes early after student protesters drowned out the board members for more than half an hour.
Penn Law renamed ‘Carey Law School’ following record $125 million donation
The renaming was approved by the Board of Trustees on Friday, the Board of Trustees Chair David Cohen and Penn President Amy Gutmann wrote in an email sent to all students.
Penn proposes $14.86 million budget for renovations to Steinberg-Dietrich Hall
The suggested renovations to Steinberg-Dietrich Hall cover a 30,000-square-foot space. They would provide new spaces for the Wharton Behavioral Lab, the Wharton undergraduate division, private offices, and classrooms.
Penn says it hopes to expand first-gen., low-income NSO course to all freshmen
The board also proposed a potential joint master’s degree program that would involve collaboration from the Graduate School of Education, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and the Weitzman School of Design.
Construction on the $4.4 million Weitzman Plaza set to begin in May 2020
The College Hall construction will cost $5.4 million and will take place between December 2019 and June 2020.
SHS Director Giang Nguyen leaves Penn with a legacy of improving health care for minorities
In two weeks, Nguyen will be leaving Penn to take on the top position at Harvard University Health Services following a national search for a replacement for Harvard's former director.
Students express frustration at open forum toward Penn's AAU survey results
At the forum, held at the LGBT Center, students criticized Penn for the lack of significant change from the last AAU survey in 2015 to the report that was released earlier this month.
After a two-year search, interim director Josephine Park stays on to lead ASAM program
ASAM has struggled with maintaining leadership since the founding director of the program left Penn in 2017. Park was named the ASAM program's interim director in 2018 and was set to serve for a year.
Penn pledges action in response to AAU survey results — but students demand more
Provost Wendell Pritchett said the University plans to expand staff members for Penn Violence Prevention and create a series of focus groups to analyze the survey responses.
Penn produced the most 2019 Forbes 400 members out of any university
Penn is the best-represented school in the rankings and 24% of the Forbes 400 graduated from an Ivy League school.
More than 25% of Penn undergraduate women report unwanted sexual contact in AAU results
At Penn, 25.9% of undergraduate women said they had experienced unwanted sexual contact since entering college, a decline from 27.2% in 2015. Among undergraduate men, the rate rose from 5.5% to 7.3%. Among transgender, genderqueer, and non-binary undergraduates, the rate rose from 19% in 2015 to 21.5% in 2019.
Penn Law minority student groups plan to protest Amy Wax on Monday morning
At 8 a.m., protesters will begin to march from the Starbucks located at 34th and Walnut streets toward the Sansom entrance of the Penn Law school building. The protest will then continue in front of the law school building until 9 a.m. when classes begin for law students.
Angela Duckworth will teach a new Penn course next spring focused on 'grit'
Duckworth said the goal of the class is to help students find and engage with their passion — the main part of the course will involve students picking a new skill and reflecting as they pursue and develop it further.
Dean Furda's Eagles tirade featured on Stephen Colbert's late-night show
“Plot twist: turns out that man is Eric Furda, the University of Pennsylvania’s dean of admissions,” Colbert said to horrified laughter from the audience.
Penn First Plus to find its first permanent home in College Hall next fall
Construction on Penn First Plus' permanent home will begin later this semester and is expected to open in the 2020-2021 school year.
'The job is to nurture talent': Hitomi Yoshida joins PAACH as new coordinator
Yoshida, a 1995 graduate from the Graduate School of Education, brings an extensive background in intercultural education and community work to her new role.
'Reach out, and someone will reach back': Messages cover love statue to honor Greg Eells
The all-day event was hosted by CogWell@Penn, a student group for active listening and suicide prevention.
Gutmann honors Eells at U.C. meeting Wednesday and urges students to spread resources
President Amy Gutmann began the Sept. 11 meeting with a moment of silence for Greg Eells, the former executive director of of Counseling and Psychological Services, who died on Monday.