Academics
Project Chair: Mimi Pastore & Danna Cai
The Academics project committee conducts research across four main subtopics, including Course Requirements, Advising, Grading & Evaluation, and Course Scheduling. This involves working with all four undergraduate schools, administrators, and stakeholders to communicate resolutions in the best interest of undergraduate student education. Some of the committee’s initiatives include course scheduling events before Advance Registration, communicating with alumni to create a database of sample schedules, and meeting with administration. The committee strives to work to be a safe space for students to air their concerns. Currently, Academics is working to improve c.u. limit expansion, make course scheduling as clear as possible, improving transparency in grading policies; the project hopes to include solutions to these challenges within the 2025 White Paper.
Bright paper
Project Chairs: Puja Gandhi & Shivaek Venkateswaran
Classroom policies
Project Chairs: Aarya Rajashekara & Iris Shen
New directions
Project Chairs: Hannah Siddiqui & Aidan Howard
Roadmap to penn
Project Chairs: Sameeksha Panda & Owen Phillips
White paper Implementation & Wellness
Project Chairs: Daphne Hicyilmaz & Costa Gay-Afendulis
The Wellness Committee works on all things related to student well-being at Penn. Most recently, the committee established the Sarah Katz Award, which is given to students with a demonstrated interest in health literacy created in honor of Sarah Katz, a former SCUE member. Examples of past wellness initiatives are the Wellness Community Conversations and wellness-related study breaks. For SCUE’s 2025 White Paper, the committee is focused on addressing wellness resources across different schools (CAS, SEAS, Wharton, Nursing), wellness accessibility, sustainable initiatives, and healthcare literacy.