Although students will be able to submit standardized test scores, those who do not submit will not be at a disadvantage.

A Penn graduate student filed a class action lawsuit against the University on April 30, demanding tuition and fee refunds for the remainder of the spring semester after on-campus operations shut down in March. 

Yale's decision reverses the University's previous opt-in Credit/D/Fail policy, which prompted student protests in favor of a universal pass system.

In light of the coronavirus outbreak, five Ivy League schools — including Penn — have implemented an opt-in pass/fail policy, while three are mandatory pass/fail.

A growing number of universities are banning international travel and mandating that classes shift to online platforms to limit the spread of the virus.

The study found that 43% of white students admitted to Harvard between 2009 and 2014 were legacy, children of faculty and donors, or athletes.

Penn has been ranked number eight for the past three years. Now, the University shares the No. 6 spot with Stanford University and the University of Chicago. 

Many universities chose performers who are traditionally underrepresented in the music industry, including female artists and artists of color. 

Penn, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Brown, and Dartmouth all saw their lowest admission rates in history – with four of the schools dipping below 6 percent.

Penn hired an outside consultant to review procedures after former men's basketball coach Jerome Allen pleaded guilty in October 2018 to accepting bribes to help a current Penn senior gain admission.

Eells has met with Penn Wellness, the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, the Undergraduate Assembly, and the Penn Benjamins peer counseling group.

In his new role, Gladney plans to promote the Faculty Excellence and Diversity Initiative, an effort to hire more faculty members of underrepresented minorities at Yale. 

None of the eight colleges received a passing grade. Yale University and Dartmouth College both received F's, putting them at the bottom of the list.

Acts of anti-Semitism have been spreading across the nation, including to other college campuses and to cities like Philadelphia.

The $70 million suit, filed on Nov. 15 by seven women, alleged the professors sexually assaulted, harassed, and discriminated against the women while they were graduate students. 

'As presidents and chancellors of leading American research universities, we write to express our deep concern and dismay at reports of possible withdrawal of federal agency protections for transgender people,' the letter wrote. 

Harvard Medical School has found through an internal investigation that there is fraudulent data in 31 scientific publications from the laboratory of a prominent cardiologist.