Diversity News

Celebrating its anniversary, the Asian American Studies Program was formed after students rallied for a venue to teach about the region’s many histories and cultures.

Penn Law Professors Kermit Roosevelt and Seth F. Kreimer discuss why attitudes toward same-sex marriage have changed, and how, amid echoes of the past, a new chapter begins in the same-sex marriage debate.

The University Archives and Records Center has chronicled the changing roles of women at Penn, dating from the earliest 18th-century days through modern times.

The Program in Mental Health Education Assessment, Recovery, and Leadership for Social Workers (P.E.A.R.L.S.) will train Master of Social Work students committed to working in the behavioral health sector to provide integrated mental health care for veterans, military families, and the homeless in underserved communities.  This program is made possible through a three-year grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).  Students awarded a P.E.A.R.L.S. Fellowship will receive a stipend of up to $20,000.
For more information, please contact Dr. Gellis at zgellis@sp2.upenn.edu or 215.746.5487

Penn Social Work Student, Jennifer Gutierrez, Learns Lessons of Hard Work and Justice for Immigrants.

Victoria Rich, PhD, RN, FAAN, chief nurse executive at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, has received the Prism Diversity Award from the American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE). The award recognizes Dr. Rich’s efforts to promote diversity within the nursing workforce and to enhance an understanding of diversity issues across the health system and greater community.

Rather than bringing people closer, office social events can make some uncomfortable and underscore a team’s differences, Wharton professor Nancy Rothbard says

Civil rights scholar W.E.B. Du Bois’ groundbreaking sociological study, “The Philadelphia Negro,” was commissioned by Penn. More than a century after the book was published, Professor Amy Hillier and several students at the University are working to ensure the seminal social science work has a lasting impact.  “The Ward: Race and Class in Du Bois’ Seventh Ward,” is a research, teaching, and public history project dedicated to sharing the lessons from Du Bois’ 1899 book about racism and the role of research in affecting social change.

Keith Weigelt, the Marks-Darivoff Family Professor at the Wharton School, developed the “Building Bridges to Wealth” program to offer free financial literacy lessons to underserved communities.

Penn Nursing Associate Professor Christopher Lance Coleman, PhD, MPH, RN, was a nursing student at the onset of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, when treatments were nearly nonexistent and funeral homes refused to pick up those who died from the disease.  He revisits the experience with “Don’t Ever Forget Me” in the new book I Wasn’t Strong Like This When I Started Out: True Stories of Becoming a Nurse.