GitHub Campus Program makes GitHub Enterprise features available to the Penn Community.

You must have a GitHub account before you can become a member of the University of Pennsylvania (upenn) organization on GitHub. You can use an existing account or create a new GitHub account here:

• Join GitHub

You can use any available name for your GitHub account. If your PennKey username (PennName) is unavailable, consider using yourpennname-upenn (i.e. bfrankln-upenn). Since GitHub account names are not unique to the upenn organization, do not assume that a GitHub account belongs to a Penn affiliate because it is the same as someone’s PennName.

All members of the upenn GitHub organization are required to have two-factor authentication enabled on their GitHub accounts. If you have not done so already, see these instructions (be sure to save your recovery codes when prompted):

• Configuring two-factor authentication

After logging into your GitHub account (with two-factor authentication enabled), visit this URL to authenticate with your PennKey and automatically become a member of the upenn GitHub organization:

• https://github.com/orgs/upenn/sso/sign_up

Note that you can associate your Penn WebLogin SSO identity with any of your GitHub accounts, but only one can be associated at a time. You will also be required to enable Two-factor authentication on your GitHub account, if you haven't done so already.

WARNING: GitHub is not suitable for storing sensitive information, including:

• Data subject to FERPA rules
• HIPAA protected information
• Unencrypted secrets such as passwords or private keys

Benefits:

• Protected by Penn WebLogin SSO
• GitHub Teams for cascading access permissions
• Standardized infrastructure available to University
• Security features enforced across all repositories in the enterprise
• Security Vulnerability Alerts for vulnerable repos
• Enterprise support for GitHub Classroom and integration with Canvas
• External collaboration with nonmembers is supported
• Continued access to code repostories is resilient to developer turnover
• GitHub Copilot coding assistant with multiple models (with Penn billing code; $19 / user / month)

Considerations:

• Not appropriate for storing sensitive data (see above)
• File Size Limits
• Repository Size Limits
• Migrating existing repositories into GitHub

GitHub Copilot is available for $19 per user per month at the Business level. At the business level, users are each given 300 premium request credits per month to use for queries; using the default model, currently GPT 4.1, is free.

As of this writing, the GitHub Campus Management Team has set up Copilot as follows:

• Data is excluded from training by default.
• Models available: Claude Sonnet 3.7, Google Gemini 2.0, and OpenAI o3
• Organizations choose whether to enable EDITOR PREVIEW FEATURES.
• User feedback collection is disabled across the Enterprise.
• Mobile and Copilot Extensions are disabled across the Enterprise, to ensure data remains excluded from any training by default.
• Copilot is enabled on GitHub.com, for features such as automated Copilot for Pull Requests, Copilot Chat in GitHub.com, and knowledge base search.
• Copilot is enabled on both the CLI and IDE.
• Copilot can search the web for additional context.
• Copilot Metrics API access is enabled for administrators at the organization and enterprise level.