Tag: University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education

Leadership & Policy

Widener President Dr. Julie E. Wollman to Join Faculty at University of Pennsylvania When She Steps Down Next Year

Dr. Julie E. Wollman, president of Widener University, said that she will join the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education as a professor of practice in higher ed when she steps down next year, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. Wollman will have led Widener for six years when she leaves. She starts […]

June 24, 2021

MSIs

‘Who Do You Know Went to Cornell?’

A few weeks ago, I entered a convenience store to purchase a portable pack of tissues and eye drops to treat my seasonal allergies. I was wearing a windbreaker jacket with a Cornell University logo on it. As I waited in line to purchase my items, an older White man stopped me and asked, “Who do you know went to Cornell?”

May 21, 2019

MSIs

MSIs are ‘Turning Student Activism into Votes’

Several minority serving institutions (MSIs) highlighted in a new report from the Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions (CMSI) at the University of Pennsylvania are mobilizing their students to vote and become engaged around political issues, despite barriers that keep students away from the polls. MSI students and leaders are encouraging student voting and civic […]

October 2, 2018

Latest News

University of Pennsylvania Will Allow Former President to Revise Dissertation

The University of Pennsylvania will allow Dr. Gregory J. Vincent—the former president of Hobart and William Smith Colleges who resigned amid allegations that he plagiarized portions of his dissertation—the opportunity to make revisions.

April 22, 2018

Students

Program Launched to Increase Study Abroad at MSIs

The University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education’s Center for Minority Serving Institutions (CMSI) has teamed up with CIEE: Council on International Educational Exchange to launch a three-year strategy to increase study abroad at minority-serving institutions (MSIs).

March 3, 2016