- Senate Executive Committee (SEC)
- Senate Committee on Academic Freedom and Responsibility (SCAFR)
- Senate Committee on the Economic Status of the Faculty (SCESF)
- Senate Committee on Faculty Development, Diversity, and Equity (SCFDDE)
- Senate Committee on Faculty and the Administration (SCOA)
- Senate Committee on Faculty and the Academic Mission (SCOF)
- Senate Committee on Students and Educational Policy (SCSEP)
- CIRCE
- CIRCE: Medicine
- Senate Nominating Committee
- Senate Committee on Publication Policy for Almanac
- Senate Select Committee on Scholarly Communication
- Senate Ad Hoc Committee on Planning for Post-Pandemic Penn (P4)
Charge
The Senate Committee on Students and Educational Policy (“SCSEP”) oversees and advises the Executive Committee on matters relating to the University’s policies and procedures on the admission and instruction of students, including academic integrity, admissions policies and administration, evaluation of teaching, examinations and grading, academic experiences, educational opportunities (such as study abroad), student records, disciplinary systems, and the campus environment. In general the Committee deals with the matters covered by the following section of the University’s Handbook for Faculty and Academic Administrators: IV.
SCSEP 2024-2025 Membership
- Seema Bhatnagar (PSOM/Anesthesiology and Critical Care), CHAIR
- Vance Byrd (SAS/FIGS)
- Ted Chinburg (SAS/Mathematics)
- Roopali Kulkarni (Dental Medicine)
- Greg Ridgeway (SAS/Criminology)
- Akhilesh Reddy (PSOM/Pharmacology)
- Dylan Small (Wharton)
- Ex officio:
- A representative of the Senate Tri-Chairs
- Gail Morrison (PSOM/Medicine), PASEF non-voting representative
Specific Charges, 2024-2025
The following charges reflect the work of the Senate Committees for 2024-25. Each committee is asked, when undertaking its work, to maintain the Faculty Senate’s ongoing commitment to addressing systemic all forms of inequity.
- Review the Charter of the University Student Disciplinary System to ensure that it is effectively integrated with the operation of the Committee on Open Expression, that its rules and procedures are transparent and fair, and that there is an appropriate degree of faculty involvement that reflects Penn’s norms of shared governance. Recommend clarification and amendment of the Charter if necessary.
- Examine Penn’s current admissions policies in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s rejection of affirmative action to ensure that the university continues to admit a student body that is heterogenous across categories of race, color, religion, sex, disability, and more, where appropriate.