Annual Ivy Policy Conference to take place at Penn

This year’s Ivy Policy Conference, themed “Inequalities Across College Campuses,” will take place at Penn.

The annual conference will be held April 8-10, and will work to “emphasize in-depth, candid conversation on public policy solutions to the social, intellectual, political and cultural issues facing today’s college students,” according to its website.

Ivy Policy Conferences are hosted by the Ivy Council, a group of representatives from the eight Ivy League universities who have worked to represent the schools as a group and promote social awareness since the council’s founding in 1993.

This year, 170 students across the universities will be in attendance, making it the largest Ivy Policy Conference to date.

“I am very excited that the University of Pennsylvania will be bringing some of the world’s brightest minds together to think hard about difficult problems and brainstorm about creative ways we can better our college campuses,” Ivy Council President Paarth Shah said in a statement.

Past conferences have prompted specific administration responses. The blue emergency lights installed on Ivy League campuses partially resulted from the 2009 conference at Dartmouth, according to a press release.

Four keynote speakers are set to be announced at a later date.

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