Endowment returns fail to outpace the pack
Penn’s endowment returns were just average compared to its peers during fiscal year 2014.
Penn’s endowment returns were just average compared to its peers during fiscal year 2014.
Like prospective undergraduates and MBA’s, prospective Wharton professors have to stand out a pool of candidates to score a spot on the faculty roster.
On Oct. 28 this year, PennWorld is hosting its Mix It Up event to encourage intercultural conversations, as well as identifying and questioning social boundaries. Students will be assigned seats in dining halls so they can eat and talk with someone they don't normally interact with. The location in dining halls creates a symbol for change in a place where, normally, segregation is common.
Students say that widespread news coverage has
Like prospective undergraduates and MBA’s, prospective Wharton professors have to stand out a pool of candidates to score a spot on the faculty roster.
On Oct. 28 this year, PennWorld is hosting its Mix It Up event to encourage intercultural conversations, as well as identifying and questioning social boundaries. Students will be assigned seats in dining halls so they can eat and talk with someone they don't normally interact with. The location in dining halls creates a symbol for change in a place where, normally, segregation is common.
Students are volunteering for political campaigns across the country, hoping to help influence the 2014 midterm elections
This year's Fall Green Week began Oct. 21, and will run until Oct. 28. Once a semester, organizations including the Penn Environmental Group, the Student Sustainability Association at Penn, the Kelly Writer's House, the Philomathean Society, and the Penn Vegan Society host the event, which broaches a number of environmental issues.
College 2006 graduate Adam Weber, along with College 2007 graduate Jimmy Goldblum, co-produced and co-directed a documentary called “Tomorrow We Disappear,” which premiered last weekend. The film was inspired by Salman Rushdie’s novel "Midnight’s Children," written in 1981 about India’s transition from British Colonialism to independence to British partition.
According to Wharton’s new dean, the biggest challenge facing women in the business world is ensuring that they “can have a balance between their families and their professional lives, with their husbands and partners.”
In April 2014, the White House released a report from its task force on sexual assault outlining measures schools should take to combat the issue on campuses nationwide.
Before he became a Philadelphia public school principal, Ted Domers learned about how other school leaders ? from private, public and parochial schools ?
It’s been more than four years since Penn has had a Rhodes Scholar ? but the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships has revamped the fellowship application process in an effort to add Penn names to the ranks of scholars.For the first time, Penn put in place a faculty review committee to review and interview applicants for the Rhodes, Marshall and Mitchell Scholarships, three competitive awards for American students to pursue graduate studies in the United Kingdom and Ireland and select finalists to receive Penn’s official endorsement.Prior to the committee’s instatement, students were welcome to apply and receive Penn’s endorsement so long as they satisfied the minimum requirements for the fellowships.
The Human Rights Campaign recognized all four Penn hospitals.
See what crimes occurred in the Penn Patrol Zone between Oct. 11 and Oct. 17, 2014.
The moratorium on new clubs has been lifted for all non-performing arts groups.At the October 23 Student Activities Council general body meeting, an overwhelming majority of the general body voted in favor of partially lifting the moratorium.
For the last ten years, Hank Essex has protested against the “corruption and demoralization of America” at the corner of 36th and Walnut every Friday.
Compared to Ivy peers, Penn lags in disciplinary transparency.
In the middle of midterm week, Wharton freshman Hannah Stulberg has a few things on her mind: her econ exam, her upcoming status report and the “sudden cancellation” of her loan by Penn’s Loan Office.
As Election Day nears, Penn's state lobbyist isn't focusing as much on the governor's race as he is on convincing new state legislators why Penn Vet funding is so important.