History Ph.Ds across the country face the lowest number of job openings since 1985

There were only 501 full-time job listings for history Ph.Ds in the 2016-2017 hiring season, a 12 percent decrease from the previous year.

Reports of anti-Semitic incidents have skyrocketed in the past year

The ADL reported just shy of 1,300 cases of anti-Semitism from Jan. 1 to Sept. 30, exceeding the 2016 total of 779 incidents. 

Penn students who drop below four courses stand to lose access to varsity sports, Greek life

College senior Haley Mankin took three courses during both semesters of her freshman year, and said the option to do so is important for all students. 

Penn students and faculty share the process, challenges and costs of taking psychiatric medication

“Penn is just really demanding,” College freshman Jamie Albrecht said. “Being un-medicated when you have [a mental health issue] here is just really difficult.”

Penn has policies to investigate sexual assault off campus — but most students don't know about them

“If it happened on-campus, off-campus, abroad, none of that is relevant to me,” said Penn’s sexual violence investigative officer Deborah Harley.

A man who was convicted of sexual assault exposed himself near campus. Why weren't students notified?

A Penn student who witnessed the incident said she was “livid there was no alert” sent out to the Penn community, especially because the man was let go by police. 

Your guide to Penn's task force recommendations and how its implementation has affected students

One of the largest debates that erupted this year was over the University's new rules around social events on campus. Here's everything you need to know about what happened. 

Colleges have cracked down on campus social life for nearly 60 years. Now, Penn's following suit.

While peer institutions like Harvard have taken steps to ban Greek institutions altogether, Penn administrators say the Task Force has no such intention. 

A legal expert weighs in on Student Disability Services' accidental leak of 299 emails

The accidental breach of privacy is only likely to result in a "slap on the wrist" in terms of legal repercussions, lawyers say. 

How student-run mental health groups respond to a death on campus

“There’s something to say for talking to a student who is the same age as you and maybe who has gone through something similar." 

Student Disability Services accidentally revealed the emails of 299 accommodated students

A lawyer says this mistake might have violated a federal law that protects the confidentiality of student records in all federally funded schools.

DeVos plans to alter sexual assault policies to avoid 'a lack of due process'

DeVos criticized the current sexual assault policies for college campuses as “kangaroo courts” that have “run amok."

Penn Law students: should professor who praised 'bourgeois' culture be teaching first-year course?

Penn Law students say administrators need to think seriously about whether Wax should be allowed to continue teaching a required, first-year course.

Inside the world of Penn's highly selective finance and consulting clubs

Last year, 180 Degrees Consulting club accepted 17 people out of the 200 applicants. That's a 8.5 percent acceptance rate, which is lower than Penn's lowest ever acceptance rate of 9.15 percent. 

Four years, two degrees — here's what life is like for students in Penn's dual degree programs

“I learned about game theory in ECON 10 [in Wharton] and in NETS 112 [in Engineering] from different perspectives and for different applications,” Engineering and Wharton freshman EJ Murphy said. “It painted a far more vivid picture.”

Recent Penn grads cite Feb Club, The Final Toast and personal achievements as highlights of senior year

2017 College graduate Samip Sheth said events like Feb Club served an important role in bringing graduating seniors together. “It’s really special to see how people are coming together to celebrate the memories we’ve made in the last four years,” he said.

Dean of the College Dennis DeTurck is stepping down at the end of June

Andrew Binns, a biology professor, will remain the interim dean until New Student Orientation.

Climate change research at Penn might take a nosedive under Trump's new budget

The decreased funding for research will force academics to be more strategic about their research proposal topics in the future, Alain Plante, an associate professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science said. 

Living west of 40th Street can be problematic for math and engineering students

“It was a 20-minute walk to and from DRL,” College freshman Jackie Wexler said. “It’d make planning my schedule very difficult, it’d make going home when I have an hour between classes difficult, and the Radian seemed a bit more convenient."

Gutmann: Racist and anti-Semitic flyers posted across campus are 'vile and reprehensible'

Flyers that include phrases like "stop the blacks" and "join your local Nazis" were posted around campus in recent days, raising questions as the motive and identity of their creator.