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Tag: University of Pennsylvania: Page 2
News Roundup
Wharton’s New Dean is First Woman, African American to Lead the Business School
The University of Pennsylvania on Wednesday announced a new dean for its famed business school Wharton. Erika H. James will be the first woman dean and the first African American to lead the business school, reported The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Business Journal, respectively. She will assume her new role July 1. James currently […]
February 26, 2020
News Roundup
Dr. Howard C. Stevenson to be Awarded 2020 Gittler Prize by Brandeis University
Dr. Howard C. Stevenson, the Constance Clayton Professor of Urban Education at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education, was awarded the 2020 Joseph B. and Toby Gittler Prize by Brandeis University. In 2007, to recognize scholarly contributions to racial, ethnic or religious relations, the late professor Dr. Joseph B. Gittler, established the award, […]
January 16, 2020
Students
New UPenn Scholarship Aims to Diversify Urban Planning
After CEO and co-founder of L+M Development Partners Ron Moelis noticed a dearth group of diverse students entering the urban planning field, he decided to fund a new scholarship program at the University of Pennsylvania.
December 9, 2019
News Roundup
New Jersey Low-Income Students Tour University of Pennsylvania and Villanova
New Jersey SEEDS, a nonprofit for low-income students, took 30 alumni on private tours of University of Pennsylvania and Villanova University recently. Students visited the campuses and attended information sessions coordinated by the schools’ admissions offices to help them navigate the college application process. Students on the tours were graduates of New Jersey SEEDS’ Scholars […]
November 27, 2019
News Roundup
University of Pennsylvania Law School Changes Its Name
The University of Pennsylvania law school changed its name to Carey Law after a $125 million donation from the W.P. Carey Foundation, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. The decision was met with mixed reactions. Over 2,200 alumni and students signed an online petition against the name change. The petition asks that the school still be called […]
November 14, 2019
Leadership & Policy
Report: HBCUs Produce More Upwardly Mobile Graduates than PWIs
A new report presents data indicating that more students experience upward economic mobility at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) than at Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs).
October 1, 2019
Students
Graduate Programs in Higher Education Won’t Prepare You for Equity Centered Student Affairs Work – You Need to Seek It Out
As an alumnus of a Higher Education Administration masters program, and through my involvement in conferences in student affairs, my impression is that the higher education curriculum is disconnected with the lived reality of student affairs professionals. While a number of programs have grown their course offerings to include classes about diversity and equity, the way the courses are structured and experienced determine whether or not they are effective in preparing the current and future workforce of higher education to address issues related to diversity and equity on their campuses.
September 23, 2019
Latest News
Penn’s Grad School of Education Cultivates a Pipeline
In effectively preparing teachers and educators for diverse environments, the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education is building pipelines for future students. Current graduate students will soon be present in classrooms, motivating young people and making them aware of the educational opportunities they can access.
August 21, 2019
News Roundup
University of Pennsylvania Launches Cybersecurity Boot Camp For Adults
The University of Pennsylvania is launching a new cybersecurity boot camp on campus focused on adult learners. The program will run for 24 weeks starting on Nov. 12 with the goal of training people for a skill in high demand among employers. U.S. job openings that require a cybersecurity background grew by 35 percent last […]
August 13, 2019
Latest News
Study: Some Four-Year Institutions Provide Inaccurate, Confusing Cost Information
While bipartisan legislation is being introduced to U.S. legislatures on how to improve net price calculators (NPCs) — a tool that shows prospective students total costs of an education after scholarships and federal grants — a newly released research brief found that many four-year institutions are providing misleading or confusing cost information and some universities are not following legislation that requires NPCs to be prominently presented on their website.
March 28, 2019
Students
Welcome Home
As educational spaces, colleges and universities carry the burden of creating a welcoming and inclusive home for all students. Establishing an empowering and nurturing campus climate is the first step in changing student attitudes towards underrepresented students.
December 12, 2018
HBCUs
Marybeth Gasman to Join Rutgers Faculty
Dr. Marybeth Gasman, who has established herself as one of the nation’s most prominent scholars of historically Black colleges in particular and minority-serving institutions in general, is leaving the University and Pennsylvania to join the faculty at the Graduate School of Education (GSE) at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, in the Fall.
December 6, 2018
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