Philly-area lawmakers walk out of meeting with Penn president over DEI cuts A Pennsylvania state senator and state representative left the meeting after they say a university administrator referred to diversity as a “lightning rod.”

NEW: Two Philly-area lawmakers walked out of a meeting with the @upenn.edu president on Tuesday after they say a university administrator referred to diversity as a “lightning rod.”

One state senator called the meeting “bullshit.” @whyy.org whyy.org/articles/pen...

Penn schools scrubbed their DEI websites. Here’s what’s left. As Penn quietly rolls back policies, programs, and initiatives it once championed, The Daily Pennsylvanian compiled the changes the University's schools have made to their DEI websites so far.

In the past three weeks, Penn has taken down or altered dozens of websites about its policies, programs, and initiatives related to DEI across all 12 of its schools — the most extensive action taken by any Ivy about Trump’s EO.

The latest from @dailypenn.bsky.social:

www.thedp.com/article/2025...