Christine Oh

The Dec. 3 motion renamed the body the ‘Committee on Community and Equal Opportunity’ and marked the second round of public debate over a potential name change.

UMOJA provided a list of demands for the University, including imposing the “highest possible” sanctions on the suspect and offering support resources to the victim.

In a response to the suit, Penn wrote that it has “cooperated extensively with the EEOC, providing over 100 documents, totaling nearly 900 pages.”

The initiatives were organized by faculty members in an effort to break down barriers between the faculty and staff of Penn’s 12 graduate schools.

The report follows a series of mass emails sent on Oct. 31 to individuals across the University from accounts linked to the Graduate School of Education.

The Philadelphia protest was part of a series of over 2,700 demonstrations that took place across the country. 

The document was drafted in partnership with student representatives from six of the eight other universities initially approached with the federal government’s proposed higher education compact.

The Oct. 11 message was sent in response to a memo from Penn that outlined recommendations for department chairs to “maintain teaching continuity” should graduate students participate in a work stoppage.

The compact was broadly described as a threat to the practice of shared governance — where faculty, staff, administrators, boards, and sometimes students share responsibility for decision-making and policy development. 

The Oct. 3 memo condemned the compact as “another attempt” by the Trump administration to pressure universities “to comply with its political agenda.”