News
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July 28, 2020
Anti-Discrimination Task Force Aims to ‘Flatten the Hate’A new community task force launched in April supports Asian and Asian American students and scholars on campus. “We strongly support the Asian and Asian American members of our community,” says Provost Wendell Pritchett. “It is essential that our campus—and our city—offer an environment in which everyone can thrive and do their best work.
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July 20, 2020
Newly Digitized Marian Anderson Collection Now Accessible OnlineThe University of Pennsylvania Libraries has completed the digitization of more than 2,500 items from the collection of Marian Anderson, one of the most celebrated singers of the 20th century. The body of primary sources in the collection—including letters, diaries, journals, interviews, recital programs, and private recordings—spans the Philadelphia-born contralto’s six-decade career as a concert singer and advocate for social justice.
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July 20, 2020
Penn Plans to Remove Statue of George WhitefieldPenn formed a working group to study campus names and iconography. The case for removing Whitefield is overwhelmingly strong. He was a well-known evangelical preacher in the mid-eighteenth century, who notably led a successful campaign to allow slavery in Georgia. This is undeniably one of Whitefield’s principal legacies.
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July 20, 2020
Guthrie Ramsey’s Creative Journey of Healing, Collaboration, and PersistenceDiagnosed with cancer last year, Professor Guthrie Ramsey instinctively knew that creating music would be important to his healing. What he didn’t know is that his composing and recording project would unfold during a global pandemic and an uprising against racial injustice.
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July 13, 2020
Penn Submits Amicus Brief in Support of International Students with F-1 VisasIn an amicus brief filed July 12, the University of Pennsylvania joined 58 other colleges and universities in support of a lawsuit filed by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to block the new federal policy that would revoke F-1 visas for international students if their course of study is entirely online.