Penn Faculty Senate
SEC Passes Resolution in Support of Penn’s Administrative Response to the EEOC Complaint
During its meeting on December 10, 2025, the Faculty Senate Executive Committee unanimously adopted the following resolution:
Faculty Senate Resolution in Support of Penn’s Administrative Response to the EEOC Complaint
The University of Pennsylvania’s Faculty Senate Executive Committee strongly supports the Penn administration’s refusal to provide the names and contact information of Jewish faculty, students, and staff to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). We believe that the EEOC’s demand for such information compromises and puts at risk the safety and privacy of members of Penn’s Jewish community and that it will play no meaningful role in combating antisemitism, the EEOC’s purported justification for its demand.
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.
