Penn Compact • Engaging Locally 2006

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

PENN

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.”

P E N N C O M PA C T

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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

P E N N C O M PA C T

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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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THE ECONOMY

INCREASING

ACCESS ENGAGING LOCALLY AND GLOBALLY

INTEGRATING

KNOWLEDGE

P H O T O / I L L U S T R AT I O N C R E D I T S

COVER

house exterior, Mark Stehle; schoolgirls, Candace diCarlo

INTERIOR FRONT FLAP

portrait of Dr. Gutmann, Candace diCarlo

B O O S T I N G C I V I C C A PA C I T Y T H R O U G H E A S T E R N D E V E L O P M E N T

all images by Sasaki Associates, Inc.

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

I M P R O V I N G P U B L I C E D U C AT I O N

OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

University of Pennsylvania

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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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