Administration
Penn simplifies housing process
On March 30, Penn Housing Services will introduce the first fully-online housing application, among other changes, to all incoming students.
Payroll Office to phase out paper checks
Starting in April, Penn's Payroll Office announced that it will only pay employees — including students and staff — through direct deposit or a new automated system.Hoax email sent to Engineering School
A fake email sent to the Engineering community by a faculty member Monday morning announced that classes before noon in the Moore Building were canceled due to an electrical failure.Penn puts study abroad in Japan on hold
In response to a potential nuclear crisis in Japan, the Office of International Programs announced Wednesday that all upcoming Penn Abroad programs in the region have been put on hold.Penn pulls students from Japan
Following one of the worst natural disasters in Japan’s history, Penn Abroad is asking students who have not begun their semester abroad in the country to return home.Annenberg visits the Middle East
Annenberg's Adam Levin is teaching in Kabul to lay the foundations for a media infrastructure in Afghanistan, despite facing life-threatening security concerns every day.
Students call for increased diversity
Penn President Amy Gutmann announced at a forum Wednesday that she and the Provost will release an action plan to increase faculty diversity by the end of this academic year.WikiLeaks comes to college campuses
UniLeaks announced its aim to expose “corruption and mismanagement” in United States colleges in an open letter to university presidents on Monday.Insurance coverage still limited for transgender employees
In the minds of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees, two University policies stand in the way of true equal rights.
Gutmann bridges University, D.C.
While Penn president Amy Gutmann travels to often as part of her state-wide involvement and work on national commissions, she makes sure to put Penn first.HUP may stop hiring smokers
The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania is considering a policy of no longer hiring smokers, according to HUP spokeswoman Susan Phillips.Trustees talk finances, neighbor relations
Penn's Board of Trustees met with Penn President Amy Gutmann last week to discuss the University's finances, academic policy and campus and neighborhood relations.Gutmann appointed to national commission
In Washington, D.C. on Feb. 17, Leslie Berlowitz — president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences — named Gutmann and Annenberg Public Policy Center director Kathleen Hall Jamieson to the academy’s new Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences.
SEAS dean agrees to extend term
After extensive consultation with University leaders, Eduardo Glandt will now keep his deanship until 2015.
GSE works to improve Kazakh schools
This week, members from a group of high-performing schools in Kazakhstan are collaborating with Graduate School of Education faculty on a management program.Despite efforts, Penn still lacks minority faculty
Although Penn professes a “commitment to diversity" on its website, its statistics on standing minority faculty may reflect a different reality.