PENN ENGAGING P E N N C O M PA C T
P E N N C O L L A B O R AT E S WITH ITS COMMUNITY
LOCALLY
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INCREASING ACCESS We must make an excellent Penn education available to all outstanding students
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COMPACT
of talent and high potential who can benefit from and contribute to our University. In a democracy and at great universities, diversity and excellence go together. To keep them together, we must significantly boost scholarship aid to make Penn even more affordable to exceptional students from all backgrounds. I N T E G R AT I N G K N O W L E D G E The most challenging questions and problems of our time cannot be addressed by one discipline or profession. To comprehend our complex world, we must better integrate knowledge from different disciplines and professional perspectives in our research and teaching. Beginning with the recruitment of eminent scholars who will hold joint appointments in two schools and departments, Penn will
My inaugural address launched the Penn Compact. The Compact has
achieve a truly successful partnership between arts and sciences and our profes-
become our vision to propel the University of Pennsylvania “from excellence
sional schools that will benefit our students, our society, and our world.
to eminence” in all our core endeavors of teaching, research, and service.
E N G A G I N G L O C A L LY A N D G L O B A L LY
Under the Compact, we seek to retain and attract the very best faculty and
Through our collaborative engagement with communities all over the world, Penn
students. The Compact sets the stage for our achieving eminence by
is poised to advance the central values of democracy: life, liberty, opportunity,
embracing three principles that are deeply rooted in Penn’s proud history
and mutual respect. As we prepare to expand Penn’s campus to the east, we
and distinct character: increased access; integrated knowledge; and local
strengthen our ties with our neighbors and help drive economic and technological
and global engagement.
development throughout the City and Commonwealth. At the same time, we will share the fruits of our integrated knowledge wherever there is an opportunity for our students, faculty, and alumni to serve and to learn. I invite every member of our extended Penn family and friends to unite behind the Penn Compact and contribute to our bold vision for moving our great University forward. AMY GUTMANN
President, University of Pennsylvania
> Extending William Penn’s grid > Forging connections between University
City and Center City > Positioning Philadelphia as a knowledge industry leader
P E N N C O M PA C T
THIS PRESENTS A RARE OPPORTUNITY TO EXTEND WILLIAM PENN’S ORIGINAL URBAN GRID TO TRANSFORM PHILADELPHIA INTO A MUCH MORE DYNAMIC CITY
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EASTERN DEVELOPMENT
As Penn prepares to take possession of the 24-acre
beautiful parks and recreational facilities, new shops
postal lands and properties, the University is planning
and restaurants, lively arts venues, gleaming build-
to create a new neighborhood to its east that will
ings for teaching, research, and technology transfer,
boost the economic, educational, and social capacity
and inviting gateways along the Schuylkill River
of the entire city and region. This presents a rare
that will better connect the University and West
opportunity to extend William Penn’s original urban
Philadelphia to Center City.
grid to transform Philadelphia into a much more dynamic city. Over the next decade, Penn will begin converting
PENN BOOSTING CIVIC CAPACITY THROUGH surface lots, fallow buildings, and eyesores into
By dramatically boosting the capacity and impact of teaching and research at Penn, this unprecedented campus expansion will position the city and region for national leadership in the knowledge economy.
EASTERN DEVELOPMENT
> Penn Alexander School > International Studies High School
PENN IMPROVING Penn is making a dramatic difference in public
Graduate School of Education has helped to
education. Strengthened by the development of an
improve student achievement at the Lea Elementary
innovative curriculum, rigorous engagement by
School, Wilson Elementary School, and Bryant
Penn faculty, and stellar academic performances
Elementary School.
by the students, the Penn Alexander School has
Penn is also deeply involved in assisting local
emerged as a model of a high-achieving, urban
schools to become educational, social, and service
public school since opening in 2001. This past year’s
delivery hubs for their entire community. Penn’s
successes, which included the admission of 72%
University-Assisted Community School model,
of the graduating 8th grade class to selective high
which included major curriculum innovations, was
schools, emboldened Penn and the School District
awarded the inaugural W.T. Grant Foundation
to begin planning a college-preparatory interna-
Youth Development Prize in recognition of “high-
tional studies high school in West Philadelphia.
quality, evidence-based collaborative efforts that
Penn has also taken a leadership role in partnering
generate significant advances in knowledge while
with the School Reform Commission to revive
increasing the opportunities for young people to
struggling public schools. By providing professional
move successfully through adolescence with ample
development and managerial assistance, Penn’s
support and care.”
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P U B L I C E D U C AT I O N
> Penn Partnership Schools > University-Assisted Community Schools
PUBLIC EDUCATION P E N N I S A L S O D E E P LY I N V O LV E D I N A S S I S T I N G L O C A L S C H O O L S T O B E C O M E E D U C AT I O N A L , S O C I A L , A N D SERVICE DELIVERY HUBS FOR THEIR ENTIRE COMMUNITY
> LIFE (Living Independently for Elders) > Penn Smiles
> Community health initiative at Sayre High School
Penn Smiles is another innovative program in
promotes disease prevention through health and
treatment services to vulnerable and underserved
which dental professionals and students use a fully
dental screenings and through the development
members of the community who cannot access
equipped van to deliver oral health education,
of a health curriculum that draws on expertise
quality health care. Penn Nursing’s LIFE (Living
dental screenings, and treatment to neighborhood
of Penn’s Center for Community Partnerships
Independently for Elders) program provides nearly
children and their parents.
and its schools of Medicine, Dental Medicine,
Penn is aggressively bringing health promotion and
300 West Philadelphia seniors with comprehensive
Penn also began partnering with Sayre High
Nursing, Arts and Sciences, Engineering, Law,
nursing and medical care, rehabilitation, social
School last year to establish a school-based
Social Policy and Practice, and the Graduate
services, and an array of recreational activities. LIFE
community health initiative and clinic that
School of Education.
saves the Commonwealth 15% to 20% in Medicaid reimbursement costs.
P E N N N U R S I N G ’S L I F E P R O G R A M S AV E S T H E C O M M O N W E A LT H 1 5 % T O 2 0 % IN MEDICAID REIMBURSEMENT COSTS
PENN IMPROVING
PUBLIC HEALTH
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P U B L I C H E A LT H
> Comprehensive approach to neighborhood redevelopment
> University City District > UC Green
P E N N C O M PA C T
PENN IMPROVING Penn has leveraged its investments in public safety,
The University City District, which Penn helped
enhanced mortgage programs, economic development,
to establish in 1997, is now playing a leading role
and neighborhood beautification efforts to attract
in revitalizing the commercial corridors along
new homeowners and nearly a half billion dollars
Baltimore and Lancaster Avenues. At the same
of private investment in retail and new business
time, UC Green, created by Penn to spearhead
development throughout University City. The
volunteer beautification projects and recently granted
neighborhood’s arts and culture scene is thriving,
its 501©(3) status, just planted 100 trees in West
and more than 300,000 square feet of retail space
Powelton, just north of Penn’s campus, with the help
managed by Penn is 100% occupied (an amazing
of hundreds of Penn students.
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QUALITY OF LIFE
THE QUALITY
OF LIFE
feat that many suburban malls cannot match), contributing to a lively 24/7 ambience at 40th and Walnut Streets.
T H E N E I G H B O R H O O D ’ S A R T S A N D C U LT U R E S C E N E I S THRIVING, AND MORE THAN 300,000 SQUARE FEET OF R E TA I L S PA C E M A N A G E D B Y P E N N I S 1 0 0 % O C C U P I E D
> The Raymond and Ruth Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine
PENN DRIVING Penn has entered a new phase of building that is generating new jobs for local residents and new private investment in West Philadelphia and along the
> Mixed-use housing and retail projects > Economic inclusion
THE ECONOMY
Schuylkill River. For example, the construction phase of The
ambulatory care center will generate nearly 1,700
and higher-paying trades, and create jobs. Local
Raymond and Ruth Perelman Center for Advanced
jobs, as well as $129 million in wages and benefits
residents have filled more than half of the jobs
Medicine will create more than 1,500 jobs with more
and $72 million in goods and services annually.
created by Penn’s retail ventures. Nearly a quarter
than $40 million in wages and benefits, as well as $3
Penn also has leased University-owned property
million in wage tax revenues. After it opens in 2008,
to private developers to build market-rate housing
and women workers, and 26% of all contracts
this state-of-the-art cancer, cardiovascular, and
and ground-floor retail at 40th and Chestnut
have been awarded to minority and women
Streets, 3900 Walnut Street, and 34th and Chestnut.
owned businesses.
At the same time, the watchword of the
PENN IS USING ITS CONSIDERABLE PURCHASING AND C O N S T R U C T I O N C A PA C I T Y, A S W E L L A S I T S A C A D E M I C EXPERTISE, TO ENCOURAGE LOCAL BUSINESS GROWTH
The Raymond and Ruth Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine
of all Penn construction jobs have gone to minority
Last fiscal year alone, Penn purchased more
University’s economic practices is inclusion. Penn is
than $70 million in goods and services from
using its considerable purchasing and construction
neighborhood businesses, with $49 million going
capacity, as well as its academic expertise, to
to minority vendors. And by helping its small-
encourage local business growth, empower minor-
business partners acquire e-commerce capability,
ity and women business owners, provide women
the University is empowering them to compete
and minorities with greater access to the skilled
more effectively in the open market.
Domus Building
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40th and Chestnut Streets
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Penn Alexander School atrium, Peter Aaron/Esto; teacher and students with camera, Nancy Matlack; Penn students painting lockers, Stuart Watson; schoolboys with headphones, Candace diCarlo
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I M P R O V I N G T H E Q U A L I T Y O F L I F E tree planting, Sylvia Barkan; café area outside University Square, Mark Stehle; graffiti removal, Mark Garvin/University City District; West Philadelphia streetscape, Dr. Gary Hack
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boy with rake and children at table with fruit, Urban Nutrition Initiative; nurse with elderly woman, Monika Wood; Penn Smiles van, Mark Garvin
D R I V I N G T H E E C O N O M Y The Raymond and Ruth Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine, Raphael Viñoly Architects PC; 40th & Chestnut Street, Piatt Associates Inc.; Domus Building, The Hanover Company; woman business owner with employee, Mark Stehle I N T E R I O R B A C K F L A P café area outside University Square, Mark Stehle; street sweeper, Mark Garvin/ University City District; school playground, Peter Aaron/Esto
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