Penn Faculty Senate

Governance and Committees

The University of Pennsylvania embraces a vision of shared governance in which the faculty is regularly consulted on academic issues and faculty decisions heavily influence policies that are under the purview of faculty responsibility.

Faculty Senate Colloquium Series: The Future of American Universities

U.S. higher education has been faced significant challenges for many years, and those challenges are likely to increase.  We must think broadly, deeply, and creatively about the headwinds facing colleges and universities.  A select group of thought leaders will visit Penn for discussions on three critical topics:

  • the political/policy challenges facing higher education,
  • the value of higher education (by which we mean both the dollars-and-cents cost and its value more generally in creating an informed citizenry and ‘better’ society), and
  • the future:  if and how the fundamentals of higher education will change.

Resolutions

Recent resolutions adopted by the Faculty Senate