Diversity News

On Tuesday, September 5, 2017, the University’s Penn Futures Project (PFP) announced the names of the first Calvin Bland Faculty Fellows.  Supported by a $2 million endowment from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Fellows will collaborate on research aimed at improving the lives of at-risk young men and boys of color and their families.  The Fellows were selected from the faculty at the Schools of Nursing (Penn Nursing), Graduate School of Education (GSE) and Social Policy & Practice (SP2).

University Chaplain Charles Howard penned an op-ed in The Philadelphia Inquirer to mark the 54th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Howard pointed out how King brought about social change from the “prophetic middle,” which allowed him to push both sides and look toward a brighter future.

Q&A with Heather K. Love, the R. Jean Brownlee Term Associate Professor in the Department of English in the School of Arts & Sciences, discuss Queer studies, the definition of queer, disability studies, growing up in the South, gay marriage, and Penn’s “Year of Sex.”

Michael Jones-Correa has been appointed the 11th Presidential Professor of Political Science.

As the 2015-16 Research Fellow, Shirley Tang's research project, “Digital Storytelling in Asian American Studies at an AANAPISI Research University,” will explore a generation of Asian American students who have turned to media technologies and created an archive of audiovisual products that reveal to the campus and the community new dimensions of Asian American student experiences.

Statement from Penn President Amy Gutmann regarding the demonstration in Charlottesville.

M. Grace Calhoun has been named the Division 1 FCS Administrator of the Year by the Women Leaders in College Sports. As the University’s director of athletics since 2014, Calhoun has overseen 13 Ivy League team championships. She called the honor “truly humbling.”

PIK Professor Dorothy Roberts joined WNYC Radio’s “On the Media” to discuss where she feels a pro-choice position can be problematic. “Choice implies that the market is fair, ignoring the social inequalities that continue to shape many people’s lives,” she said.

As a Pulitzer Center student fellow, Ph.D. candidate Gareth Smail of the Graduate School of Education reported from rural Morocco on that country’s new language initiatives to bolster an education system “widely seen as inferior to that of past generations.” Secondary math and science currently taught in Arabic will be taught in both French and English.

My summer at Morgan State University, Penn Law student Adam Neuman's Op-Ed in The Baltimore Sun.