News
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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.
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July 13, 2020
Black Artists and Practitioners Awarded New Sachs Program for Arts Innovation GrantThe Sachs Program for Arts Innovation announced the eight project awardees of grants for proposals led by or primarily serving Black artists and practitioners within the Penn community.
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July 6, 2020
Penn Performers Keep Creating During PandemicThis spring and summer the student Performing Arts Council has been working with the Platt Student Performing Arts House to encourage and support the hundreds of Penn performers involved in student-run groups, finding ways from afar to promote their work on social media and stay engaged.