04/22/19 12:05am
The Office will implement training programs for faculty and staff on acknowledging the backgrounds of FGLI students and is developing a website to centralize all campus resources.
04/08/19 12:53am
Penn will now be able to expand its funding efforts towards more students who seek financial support over the summer.
03/20/19 9:55pm
Student Financial Services oversees the Satisfactory Academic Progress benchmark which students must meet in order to maintain their federal grant money.
03/20/19 9:42pm
On March 19, Penn First, the largest first-generation, low-income student group, held a town hall focused on the college admissions process.
02/10/19 10:33pm
This spring semester alone, the library received more than 760 textbook requests from nearly 700 students using the library's resources.
02/03/19 9:58pm
In 1921, the Penn Museum bought the two horse reliefs for $125,000 from C.T. Loo – a notorious Chinese art dealer whose methods of obtaining and exporting art have come under controversy.
01/21/19 12:21am
Students involved in this project, which began in fall 2017, helped Tina Brosius become Pennsylvania's first woman to be freed from a life sentence since 1990.
01/17/19 12:37am
Graduate student leaders who have advocated for the implementation of the University's online bias reporting form discuss what the follow-up process looks like for student users.
12/10/18 12:56am
On Friday, four students presented research related to Penn Slavery Project's findings that documented the relationships that several high-level faculty at Penn's medical school had with slavery.
11/18/18 4:59pm
The Penn First Graduate Association formed earlier this semester to support first-generation, low-income graduate students.
10/24/18 2:34am
Penn's Career Services has been actively working to address the specific issues FGLI students face during OCR.
09/30/18 9:59pm
Nursing students must spend 12-16 hours per week over the course of five semesters working at clinical sites scattered throughout the Philadelphia area.
09/06/18 8:00am
In the face of slow progress, student leaders said they intend to expand their support base by engaging undergraduate students and finding further evidence to support the need for this office at Penn.
09/03/18 10:05pm
Funded by the Office of the University Architect, the months-long feasibility studies were used to determine which academic, recreational, and administrative buildings on campus could accomodate all-gender bathrooms.
08/29/18 9:16pm
After months of graduate and professional student activism for better discrimination reporting, Penn rolls out the online form.
08/20/18 11:03am
From CAPS to student led groups, Penn's often competitive culture is complemented by these mental health resources every student should know.
04/24/18 2:54pm
The Harvard Varsity Club distributed copies of 'What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen,' to Harvard athletes, coaches, and administrators.
04/04/18 12:19am
Alexander prepares to retire on Aug. 31, but over the past near decade, he has led Counseling and Psychological Services through a period of growth and increased scrutiny.
03/27/18 3:37pm
The Undergraduate Assembly's survey is not connected to the University mental health task force, which Penn reconvened in 2016 following 14 student suicides in three years.
03/22/18 6:10pm
I CARE launched in 2014 after four students died by suicide in the 2013-2014 academic year alone.
