Diversity News

Penn's Stuart Weitzman School of Design is launching a new initiative to advance the understanding and sustainable conservation of heritage sites relating to African American struggles for equality, from before the passage of the 14th Amendment to the present day.

For more than a century, spearheading social change has always been at the core of Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice’s (SP2) knowledge-building activities and practice. But partnering with the School of Dental Medicine on such work is one thing we’ve never done before.

Roger Arliner Young’s brilliance made her the first black woman in the US to hold a doctorate in zoology. But her academic promise was failed by a system too rooted in prejudice to accept her as an equal.

The University of Pennsylvania's Division of Recreation and Intercollegiate Athletics is pleased to announce updates to its Plan of Action: First Steps to Combat Racism (released this summer) and the composition of its Racial Justice Task Force.

The historical roots and contemporary tentacles of structural racism were the subject of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics' latest virtual seminar on October 16 that brought together five top experts on race and health.

Dr. M. Grace Calhoun, the T. Gibbs Kane, Jr. W'69 Director of Athletics and Recreation at Penn, has been named to the 2020 class of "Game Changers: Women in Sports Business" by the Sports Business Journal.

Provost Wendell Pritchett recently announced the appointment of Mamta Motwani Accapadi as Vice Provost for University Life.

Amid mounting pressure from colleges and universities, including Penn, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has revoked a controversial policy affecting international students with F-1 visas.

This Public Safety Review and Outreach Initiative seeks to conduct a comprehensive review and outreach program to assess Penn’s success in creating a physically and emotionally safe environment.

Penn announces plans to remove statue of George Whitefield and forms working group to study campus names and iconography.