At the outset of the final Council meeting of the semester, Penn President Amy Gutmann noted that Penn is committed to doing everything possible to ensure the mental health and well-being of the University’s students and will not let resources stand in the way. She said that as the University community continues to mourn the death of Olivia Kong, who died April 11, the hours for CAPS have been extended and the Task Force on Student Psychological Health and Welfare that issued its report in February 2015 has been reconvened (see page 3) to determine what more Penn could do at this time. Dr. Gutmann then announced the inaugural winners of the President’s Innovation Prize (see page 1). She said that while originally there was to have been one winner, there were two equally eminent deserving teams, so there are two winners this year.

The bulk of the meeting was devoted to the summary reports by the chairs of the University Council committees. Each one briefly outlined what areas their committee focused on during this academic year, what their recommendations are based on their findings and what they propose should be considered by next year’s committee. (See the Council supplement in this issue for the annual reports of the standing committees.) The next Council meeting will be held in the fall semester on October 5.