The White Paper on Undergraduate Education 2015 Student Committee on Undergraduate Education University of Pennsylvania Student Committee on Undergraduate Education Steering Committee Lucas Siegmund, Chair Emma Silverman, Vice Chair Laura Sorice, Treasurer Audrey Harnagel, Secretary Grace Vincent, Membership Coordinator Jane Xiao, Membership Coordinator General Body Alex Oriente, Sophia Siciliano, Shams Haidari, Matt Rudin, Andrew Van Duyn, Bill Doane, Arjun Gupta, Mary Peyton Sanford, Jenny Sui, Carter Coudriet, Yana Kaplun, Bohan Li, Haley Morin, Mira Nagarajan, Shawn Srolovitz Former SCUE Chairs Joyce Greenbaum, 2011 Scott Dzialo, 2012 Michelle Ho, 2013 Contributing Alumni, Class of 2014 George Brighten, Sophie Domanski, Aditi Gupta, Anand Muthusamy, Pooja Ramesh, Kevin Shia, Cristina Sorice Student Committee on Undergraduate Education 209 Houston Hall 3417 Spruce Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-6306 Email:
[email protected] To Members of the University Community, For the past 50 years the Student Committee on Undergraduate Education has been a driving force for reform at Penn. Founded at a time when undergraduate students were given little say in their own education, SCUE was the !rst organization to challenge this notion and blazed a trail for countless other student groups to bring about change. From the beginning, SCUE White Papers have provided a vision for advancing undergraduate education. Now, on the semi- centennial of our founding, we look back at our accomplishments and are proud of how far the University has come. Despite many great successes, the work for reform is never complete. In SCUE’s !rst White Paper, published in 1966, our founders put forth two calls to action. One was to the faculty and administration; the other was to the students.