University of Pennsylvania
Motto	Leges sine moribus vanae (Laws without morals are useless.)
Established	1740[1]
Type	Private research university
Academic term	Semester
Endowment	US $6.6 billion[2]
President	Amy Gutmann
Staff	4,603
Undergraduates	9,710
Postgraduates	10,103
Location	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Campus	Urban, 269 acres (1.1 km²)
Colors	Red & Blue
Nickname	Quakers
Athletics	NCAA Division I
Affiliations	Ivy League, AAU, COFHE
Website	www.upenn.edu
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The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn^[3][4]) is a private, coeducational research university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. According to the university, it is America's first university^[5] and is the fourth-oldest^[6] institution of higher education in the United States. Penn is also a member of the Ivy League and is one of the Colonial Colleges.

Benjamin Franklin, Penn's founder, advocated an educational program that focused as much on practical education for commerce and public service as on the classics and theology. Penn was one of the first academic institutions to follow a multidisciplinary model pioneered by several European universities, concentrating several "faculties" (e.g., theology, classics, medicine) into one institution.

Penn is acknowledged as a leader in the arts and humanities, the social sciences, architecture, communications and education.^[7][8] Penn is particularly noted for its schools of business, law and medicine (see BusinessWeek magazine and U.S. News and World Report).^[9] About 4,500 professors serve nearly 10,000 full-time undergraduate and 10,000 graduate and professional students.

In FY2006, Penn's academic research programs undertook more than $660 million in research, involving some 4,200 faculty, 870 postdoctoral fellows, 3,800 graduate students, and 5,400 support staff. Much of the funding is provided by the National Institutes of Health for biomedical research. In 2005, Penn was awarded $470 million in grants by the NIH, ranking it second behind Johns Hopkins University among all universities.^[10]

Penn tops the Ivy League in annual spending, with a projected 2007 budget of $4.77 billion, including $2.43 billion for the academic component and $2.34 billion for the Health System (Hospitals, clinical practices, health care affiliates).^[11] In 2006, it ranked fourth among U.S. universities in fundraising, bringing in about $409.5 million in private support.^[12]

Penn is incorporated as "The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania." The university is one of 14 founding members of the Association of American Universities.

History

In 1740, a group of Philadelphians joined together to erect a great preaching hall for the evangelist Rev. George Whitefield. Designed and built by Edmund Woolley, it was the largest building in the city and it was also planned to serve as a charity school. The fundraising, however, fell short and although the building was erected, the plans for both a chapel and the charity school were suspended. In the fall of 1749, eager to create a college to educate future generations, Benjamin Franklin circulated a pamphlet titled "Proposals for the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania," his vision for what he called a "Publick Academy of Philadelphia."^[13] However, according to Franklin's autobiography, it was in 1743 when he first drew up a proposal for establishing the academy, "thinking the Rev. Richard Peters a fit person to superintend such an institution." Unlike the other three American Colonial colleges that existed at the time — Harvard, William and Mary, and Yale — Franklin's new school would not focus merely on education for the clergy. He advocated an innovative concept of higher education, one which would teach both the ornamental knowledge of the arts and the practical skills necessary for making a living and doing public service. The proposed program of study became the nation's first modern liberal arts curriculum.

Franklin assembled a board of trustees from among the leading citizens of Philadelphia, the first such non-sectarian board in America. At the first meeting of the 24 members of the Board of Trustees (November 13, 1749) the issue of where to locate the school was a prime concern. Although a lot across Sixth Street from Independence Hall was offered without cost by James Logan, its owner, the Trustees realized that the building erected in 1740, which was still vacant, would be an even better site. On February 1, 1750 the new board took over the building and trusts of the old board. In 1751 the Academy, using the great hall at 4th and Arch Streets, took in its first students. A charity school also was opened in accordance with the intentions of the original "New Building" donors, although it lasted only a few years.

For its date of founding, the University uses 1740, the date of "the creation of the earliest of the many educational trusts the University has taken upon itself"^[14] (the charity school mentioned above) during its existence.

The institution was known as the College of Philadelphia from 1755 to 1779. In 1779, not trusting then-provost Rev. William Smith's loyalist tendencies, the revolutionary State Legislature created a University of the State of Pennsylvania.^[15] The result was a schism, with Rev. William Smith continuing to operate an attenuated version of the College of Philadelphia. In 1791 the legislature issued a new charter, merging the two institutions into the University of Pennsylvania with twelve men from each institution on the new board of trustees.^[16] These three schools were part of the same institution and were overseen by the same board of Trustees.^[17]

Penn has two claims to being the first university in the United States, according to university archive director Mark Frazier Lloyd: founding the first medical school in America in 1765, makes it the first university de facto, while, by virtue of the 1779 charter, "no other American institution of higher learning was named University before Penn."^[5]

After being located in downtown Philadelphia for more than a century, the campus was moved across the Schuylkill River to property purchased from the Blockley Almshouse in West Philadelphia in 1872, where it has since remained in an area now known as University City.

Heads of the University of Pennsylvania

	Provosts of the Academy, College and University	birth–death	Years as provost
1	The Rev. George Whitefield	(1714–1770)	(1740–1746) Church and Charity School of Philadelphia
2	Benjamin Franklin	(1706–1790)	(1749–1754) Academy of Philadelphia
3	The Rev. William Smith	(1727–1803)	(1754–1779) College of Philadelphia
4	The Rev. John Ewing	(1732–1802)	(1779–1802) University of Pennsylvania
5	The Rev. William Smith	(1751–1820)	(1802–1806) University of Pennsylvania
6	The Rev. John McDowell	(1732–1802)	(1806–1810) University of Pennsylvania
7	The Rev. John Andrews	(1746–1813)	(1810–1813) University of Pennsylvania
8	The Rev. Frederick Beasley	(1777–1845)	(1813–1828) University of Pennsylvania
9	The Rev. William Heathcote DeLancey	(1797–1865)	(1828–1834) University of Pennsylvania
10	The Rev. John Ludlow	(1793–1857)	(1834–1852) University of Pennsylvania
11	The Rev. Henry Vethake	(1790–1866)	(1853–1859) University of Pennsylvania
13	The Rev. Daniel Goodwin	(1811–1890)	(1860–1868) University of Pennsylvania
14	Charles Janeway Stillé	(1819–1899)	(1868–1880) University of Pennsylvania
15	William Pepper	(1843–1898)	(1881–1894) University of Pennsylvania
16	Charles Custis Harrison	(1844–1929)	(1894–1910) University of Pennsylvania
17	Edgar Fahs Smith	(1854–1928)	(1910–1920) University of Pennsylvania
18	Josiah Harmar Penniman	(1868–1940)	(1923–1930) University of Pennsylvania

	Presidents of the University of Pennsylvania	Years as president
1	Thomas Sovereign Gates	(1930–1944)
2	George William McClelland	(1944–1948)
3	Harold Edward Stassen	(1948–1953)
4	William Hagan DuBarry	(1953–1953), Acting President
5	Gaylord Probasco Harnwell	(1953–1970)
6	Martin Meyerson	(1970–1981)
7	Sheldon Hackney	(1981–1993)
8	Claire Fagin	(1993–1994), Interim President
9	Judith Rodin	(1994–2004)
10	Amy Gutmann	(2004–Present)

Other Historical Facts of the University of Pennsylvania

One United States president (William Henry Harrison); nine signers of the Declaration of Independence (Benjamin Franklin, James Wilson, Benjamin Rush, George Clymer, Robert Morris, George Ross, Francis Hopkinson, Thomas McKean, and William Paca); eleven signers of the Constitution (Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, James Wilson, Thomas Mifflin, George Clymer, Thomas Fitzsimons, Jared Ingersoll, Rufus King, Gouverneur Morris, Robert Morris, and Hugh Williamson); and three United States Supreme Court justices (William Brennan, Owen Roberts, and James Wilson) are associated with the University.

Penn's educational innovations include: the nation's first medical school in 1765; the first university teaching hospital in 1874; the Wharton School, the world's first collegiate school of business, in 1881; the first American student union building, Houston Hall, in 1896^[18]; the country's second school of veterinary medicine; and the home of ENIAC, the world's first electronic, large-scale, general-purpose digital computer in 1946. Penn is also home to the oldest Psychology department in North America and where the American Medical Association was founded.^[19][20]

Penn is one of the nation's few private universities to be named for the place in which it is located (others include Princeton University, University of Rochester, University of Southern California, Georgetown University, Boston College, Boston University, Syracuse University, University of Dayton, New York University, and the University of Chicago). Because of this, Penn is often confused with the Pennsylvania State University (also known as "Penn State"), a public research university whose main campus is located in the geographic center of Pennsylvania in State College.

Motto

Penn's motto is based on a line from Horace’s III.24 (Book 3, Ode 24), quid leges sine moribus vanae proficiunt? ("of what avail empty laws without [good] mores?") From 1756 to 1898, the motto read Sine Moribus Vanae. When a wag pointed out that the motto could be translated as "Loose women without morals," the university quickly changed the motto to literae sine moribus vanae ("Letters without morals [are] useless"). In 1932, all elements of the seal were revised, and as part of the redesign it was decided that the new motto "mutilated" Horace, and it was changed to its present wording, Leges Sine Moribus Vanae ("Laws without morals [are] useless").^[21]

Academics

Undergraduate programs

The University of Pennsylvania has four undergraduate schools:

• The School of Arts & Sciences
• The School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS)
• The School of Nursing
• The Wharton School

The College of Arts & Sciences is the undergraduate division of the School of Arts and Sciences, which also contains the Graduate Division and the College of General Studies.

Penn has a strong focus on interdisciplinary learning and research. It emphasizes joint degree programs, unique majors and academic flexibility. Penn's One University policy allows undergraduates access to courses at all of Penn's undergraduate and graduate schools, excepting the medical and dental schools.

Undergraduate students at Penn may also take courses at area colleges participating in the Quaker consortium, including Swarthmore, Haverford, and Bryn Mawr.

Graduate and professional schools

The following schools offer graduate programs:

• Annenberg School for Communication
• Graduate School of Education
• Law School
• Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
• School of Dental Medicine
• School of Design (Formerly the Graduate School of Fine Arts)
• Graduate School of Engineering and Applied Science
• School of Medicine
• Graduate School of Nursing
• School of Social Policy & Practice
• School of Veterinary Medicine
• Wharton School

Joint-degree and interdisciplinary programs

Penn offers specialized joint-degree programs, which award candidates degrees from multiple schools at the University upon completion of graduation criteria of both schools. Undergraduate programs include:

• The Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology
• The Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business
• Nursing and Health Care Management
• The Roy and Diana Vagelos Program in Life Sciences and Management
• Civic Scholars Program^[22]

Dual Degree programs which lead to the same multiple degrees without participation in the specific above programs are also available. Unlike joint-degree programs, "dual degree" students fulfill requirements of both programs independently without involvement of another program. Specialized Dual Degree programs include Liberal Studies and Technology as well as a Computer and Cognitive Science Program. Both programs award a degree from the College of Arts and Science and a degree from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

For graduate programs, there are many formalized joint degree graduate programs such as a joint J.D./MBA. Penn is also the home to interdisciplinary institutions such as the Institute for Medicine and Engineering, the Joseph H. Lauder Institute for Management and International Studies, the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, and the Executive Master's in Technology Management Program.

Academic Medical Center and Biomedical Research Complex

Penn's health-related programs - including the Schools of Medicine, Dental Medicine, Nursing and Veterinary Medicine, and programs in bioengineering (School of Engineering) and health management (the Wharton School) - are among the university's strongest academic components. The combination of intellectual breadth, research funding (each of the health sciences schools ranks in the top 5 in annual NIH funding), clinical resources and overall scale ranks Penn with only a small handful of peer universities in the U.S.

The size of Penn's biomedical research organization, however, adds a very capital intensive component to the university's operations, and introduces revenue instability due to changing government regulations, reduced Federal funding for research, and Medicaid/Medicare program changes. This is a primary reason highlighted in bond rating agencies' views on Penn's overall financial rating, which ranks one notch below its academic peers. Penn has worked to address these issues by pooling its schools (as well as several hospitals and clinical practices) into the University of Pennsylvania Health System, thereby pooling resources for greater efficiencies and research impact.

Admissions selectivity

The university received 22,634 applications for the Class of 2011 entering in the fall of 2007; Penn admitted 15.9 percent of those applicants, representing its most selective admissions year in history. The College of Arts and Sciences itself had an about 11% acceptance rate. For comparison, in recent years, Penn has received 18,000–20,000 applications for each freshman class, has admitted 20–25% of applications and yielded 60–67% of its extended offers.

In 2002, The Atlantic Monthly ranked it as the eighth most selective college in the United States (factoring in average grades, SAT scores, students' high school rankings, and offer yields).

At the graduate level, Penn's admissions rates—like most universities'—vary considerably based on school and program. Based on admission statistics from U.S. News, Penn's most selective programs include its law school, the health care schools (medicine, dental medicine, nursing), and its business school.

Lee Stetson, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions resigned abruptly on August 31, 2007. Stetson had previously announced plans to resign at the end of this academic year after 29 years of service. Neither he nor the university would comment on the reasons for his abrupt departure which was reported by The Daily Pennsylvanian, the campus newspaper.

Stetson's resignation was announced on Aug. 29 in this statement: "Having announced my impending retirement earlier in the summer, I now recognize that it is in the University's, and my own best interest, to step down immediately, before the commencement of the fall semester. I am grateful for the opportunity I have had to serve this wonderful University for the past three decades."

Rankings

U.S. News & World Report ranked Penn fifth for undergraduate education in 2008, fourth in the Ivy League behind Princeton, Harvard, and Yale.^[23] Penn was previously ranked #4 by U.S. News in both 2005 and 2006. Additionally, according to the Academic Ranking of World Universities, an often cited ranking compiled by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Penn is the 15th best University in the world.^[24] Newsweek in 2006 ranked Penn the 13th most global university, fourth in the Ivy League school behind Harvard, Yale, and Columbia.^[25] The Center for Measuring University Performance ranks Penn in its top cluster of research universities in the nation tied with Columbia, Harvard, MIT and Stanford universities. ^[26]

In 2007, The Washington Monthly published a unique ranking that focused on universities' contributions to national service (Research: total research spending, Ph.D.s granted in science and engineering; Community Service: the number of students in ROTC, Peace Corps, etc.; and Social Mobility: percentage of, and support for, Pell grant recipients); Penn ranked 17th overall, and 4th among private institutions behind Cornell, Stanford and MIT.^[27]

Undergraduate Programs

In the humanities and arts, the departments of African American literature, anthropology, art history, biology, communications, demography, English, economics, French, history, political science, psychology, sociology, and Spanish are also extremely well regarded. At the undergraduate level, Penn's business and nursing schools have maintained their #1, 2 or 3 rankings since U.S. News began reviewing such programs. Wharton's undergraduate program has been ranked number one by BusinessWeek also. In the School of Engineering, top departments are bioengineering (typically ranked in the top 5 by U.S. News), chemical engineering, mechanical engineering and nanotechnology. The school is also strong in select areas of computer science and artificial intelligence.

Graduate and Professional Programs

Penn's graduate schools are among the most distinguished schools in their respective fields. Historically, Penn's graduate level programs have ranked higher in their respective academic fields than the overall undergraduate program relative to other colleges. Significant investments in Penn's faculty, in marketing the institution to new students and more aggressive sourcing of research and endowment funds have allowed Penn to maintain the standing of its graduate schools even as the university focused intensively on advancing its undergraduate programs.

Penn's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is generally regarded as one of the top schools in the nation (see 1995 rankings by the National Research Council). A study updated the NRC rankings and adjusted them for faculty size and also factored out reputational surveys (stating that such surveys were lagging indicators of actual academic quality). That study, titled , "The Rise of American Research Universities: Elites and Challengers in the Postwar Era", ranked Penn's arts, humanities and sciences departments seventh in the US.

Among its professional schools, the schools of business (Wharton School), architecture and urban planning (School of Design), communications (Annenberg School for Communication), medicine (School of Medicine), dentistry, nursing and veterinary medicine rank in the top five nationally (see U.S. News, National Research Council, Planetizen, DesignIntelligence magazines). Penn's law school is ranked sixth and the social work and education schools are ranked in the top twelve (U.S. News).

Campus

Much of Penn's architecture was designed by Cope & Stewardson. The two architects combined the Gothic architecture of the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge - retaining some of their classical elements - with the local landscape to establish the Collegiate Gothic style. The present core campus covers over 269 acres (~1 km²) in a contiguous area of western Philadelphia's University City district. All of Penn's schools and most of its research institutes are located on this campus. Recent improvements to the surrounding neighborhood includes the opening of several restaurants, a large upscale grocery store, and a movie theater on the western edge of campus.

Penn recently acquired approximately 35 acres of land located between the campus and the Schuylkill River (the former site of the Philadelphia Civic Center and a nearby 24-acre site owned by the US Postal Service), which will be redeveloped for expanded educational, research, biomedical, and mixed-use facilities over the next ten years.

The postal site extends from Market Street on the north to Penn’s Bower Field on the south. It encompasses the main U.S. Postal Building at 30th and Market Streets (the retail post office at the east end of the building will remain open), the Postal Annex between Chestnut Street and Walnut Street, the Vehicle Maintenance Facility Garage along Chestnut Street and the 14 acres of surface parking south of Walnut Street. Acquisition of the Postal Lands, which will become official in 2007, will allow Penn to create new connections between the campus and the city, including a pedestrian bridge, and provide additional space for research, teaching, housing and retail.

In addition to its properties in West Philadelphia, the University owns the 92 acre Morris Arboretum in Chestnut Hill in northwestern Philadelphia, the official arboretum of the state of Pennsylvania. Penn also owns the 687 acre New Bolton Center, the research and large-animal health care center of its Veterinary School. New Bolton Center received nationwide media attention when Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro underwent surgery at its Widener Hospital for multiple fractures to his right hind leg, suffered while running in the Preakness Stakes on May 20, 2006. It is located near Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.

Penn borders Drexel University and is near the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia (USP). Also nearby is the University City High School.

Libraries

Penn's library began in 1750 with a donation of books from cartographer Louis Evans. Twelve years later, then-provost William Smith sailed to England to raise additional funds to increase the collection size. More than 250 years later, it has grown into a system of 15 libraries (13 are on the contiguous campus) with 400 FTE employees and a total operating budget of more than $48 million. The library system holds 5.7 million book and serial volumes. It subscribes to 44,000 print serials and e-journals.^[28]

Penn's Libraries, with associated school or subject area:

• Annenberg (School of Communications), located in the Annenberg School
• Biddle (Law), located in the Law School
• Biomedical, located adjacent to the Robert Wood Johnson Pavilion of the Medical School
• Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, located on Walnut Street at Washington Square
• Chemistry, located in the 1973 Wing of the Chemistry Building
• Dental
• Engineering
• Fine Arts, located within the Furness (Fisher Fine Arts) Library
• Lippincott (Wharton School), located on the second floor of the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
• Math/Physics/Astronomy, located on the third floor of David Rittenhouse Laboratory
• Museum (Anthropology)
• Rare Books and Manuscripts
• Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center (Humanities and Social Sciences)
• Lea Library, located within the Van Pelt Library
• Veterinary
• High Density Storage

The University Museum

Main article: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

The University Museum, as it is commonly called, was founded in 1887. During the early twentieth century UPM conducted some of the first and most important archaeological and anthropological expeditions to Egypt, Mesopotamia, Africa, East Asia and South America, thus the collection includes a very large number of antiquities from ancient Egypt and the Middle East. Its most famous object is the goat rearing into the branches of a rosette-leafed plant, from the royal tombs of Ur. The Museum also has a strong collection of Chinese artifacts. Features of its Beaux-Arts building include a dramatic rotunda and gardens that include Egyptian papyrus. UPM's scientific division, MASCA, focuses on the application of modern scientific techniques to aid the interpretation of archaeological contexts.

The Institute of Contemporary Art based on Penn's campus, showcases various exhibitions of art throughout the year.

Residences

• Stouffer College House
• Fisher Hassenfeld College House
• Rodin College House
• Harrison College House
• Harnwell College House
• Hill College House
• DuBois College House
• Gregory College House
• Kings Court / English House
• Sansom Place East / West
• Ware College House
• Riepe College House

Student life

Main article: Student life at the University of Pennsylvania

39.2 percent of those accepted for admission to the Class of 2009 are Asian, Hispanic, African, or Native American. Women comprise 51.3 percent of all students currently enrolled. A total of 2,440 international students applied for admission to Penn's undergraduate schools for the Class of 2008, and 489 (20%) were accepted. More than 13% of the first year class are international students. Of the international students accepted to the Class of 2008, 15.8% were from Africa and the Middle East, 48.1% from Asia, 0.4% from Australia and the Pacific, 11.7% from Canada and Mexico, 10% from Central/South America and the Caribbean, and 14.1% from Europe. Penn had 4,192 international students enrolled at all levels in Fall 2004.

The Philomathean Society of the University of Pennsylvania, founded in 1813, is the oldest continually-existing student group in the United States. The Daily Pennsylvanian has been published since 1885, and is among the top college papers in the country, regularly winning Pacemaker and CSPA Gold Circle awards. The Pennsylvania Punch Bowl is one of the nation's oldest humor magazines. The student-run TV station UTV13 is the oldest college TV station in the country. The University of Pennsylvania Glee Club is one of the oldest continually-operating collegiate choruses in the United States, having been founded in 1862. The Mask and Wig Club is the oldest all-male musical comedy troupe in the country.

The University's Political Science Department is known for publishing a semesterly scholarly journal of undergraduate research called "Sound Politicks." The journal is student-run and is widely noted for the originality and quality of the articles it publishes. It accepts submissions from Penn students year round. There are many such journals across the university.

The University of Pennsylvania Band has been a fixture of student life on campus since 1897. The Penn Band performs at football and basketball games as well as University functions throughout the year and has a current membership of approximately 80 students.

Athletics

The first athletic team at Penn was its cricket team.^[29] In the sport of football, "Penn first fielded a team against Princeton at the Germantown Cricket Club in Philadelphia on November 11, 1876.^[30]

Penn's sports teams are called the Quakers. They participate in the Ivy League and Division I (Division I FCS for football) in the NCAA. In recent decades they often have been league champions in football (12 times from 1982 to 2003) and basketball (22 times from 1970 to 2006). Penn football made many contributions to the sport in its early days. During the 1890s Penn's famed coach George Woodruff introduced the quarternick kick, a forerunner of the forward pass, as well as the place-kick from scrimmage and the delayed pass. In 1894, 1895, 1897 and 1904 Penn was generally regarded the national champion of collegiate football.^[31] The achievements of two of Penn's outstanding players from that era—John Heisman and John Outland—are remembered each year with the presentation of the Heisman Trophy to the most outstanding college football player of the year and the Outland Trophy to the most outstanding college football interior lineman of the year.

Penn basketball is steeped in tradition. Penn made its only (and the Ivy League's second) Final Four appearance in 1979, where the Quakers lost to the Magic Johnson-led Michigan State Spartans in Salt Lake City. (Dartmouth twice finished second in the tournament in the 1940s, but that was before the beginning of formal League play). Penn is also is one of the teams in the Big Five, along with La Salle, Saint Joseph's, Temple and Villanova.

Penn's home court, the Palestra, is an arena used for Big Five contests as well as high-school sporting events. The Palestra has hosted more NCAA Tournament basketball games than any other facility. Franklin Field, where the Quakers play football, hosts the annual collegiate track and field event "the Penn Relays," and once was the home field of the National Football League's Philadelphia Eagles. It was also the site of the early Army-Navy football games. Franklin Field, the oldest stadium still operating for football games, was also the home to the first commercially-televised football game, and was also the first stadium to sport two tiers. In 2004, Penn Men's Rugby won the EPRU championship. In 2007, the Men's Basketball team won their third consecutive Ivy League title, then lost in the first round of the NCAA Tournament to Texas A&M.

Notable people

See also:

Some noted University of Pennsylvania alumni include the ninth President of the United States, William Henry Harrison,^[32] real estate mogul Donald Trump, CEO and investor Warren Buffett,^[33] Cisco Systems co-founder Len Bosack, linguist and activist Noam Chomsky, American industrialist Jon Huntsman, philanthropist Walter Annenberg, E. Digby Baltzell who is credited with the popularization of the acronym WASP, U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Drew Gilpin Faust, president of Harvard University, and numerous other past and present U.S. Ambassadors, members of congress, governors, cabinet members, and corporate leaders.

Controversy

The university has come under fire several times in recent years for free speech issues. In spite of this, Penn is one of only two Ivy League universities (the other being Dartmouth College) to receive the highest possible free speech rating from the watchdog group Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, founded by noted Penn professor and civil libertarian Alan Charles Kors.

See also:

Selected Penn Publications

• Daily Pennsylvanian - The independent, student-run newspaper of the University of Pennsylvania
• First Call Magazine - Penn's Undergraduate Magazine
• CUREJ - College Undergraduate Research Electronic Journal
• Knowledge@Wharton - online business journal of the Wharton School
• PennScience - undergraduate science research journal
• Res - undergraduate journal of research writing
• Sound Politicks - undergraduate political science journal
• Penn Triangle - science and technology magazine, a student-run SEAS publication

Gallery

The Quad Dormitories	The Quad Tower	The Castle	Riepe College House
The Furness Library	The Quad Dormitories	The Quad Dormitories	The Quad Courtyard
Riepe College House	Hayden Hall	College Green in Winter	Law School
Irvine Auditorium	Silverman Hall, Penn Law School	High-rise dorms, St. Mary's church in the foreground	Exterior of the Fisher Fine Arts Library
The Henry Charles Lea Library, located in Van Pelt Library	Perelman Quadrangle	Fisher-Bennett Hall

See also

• Moore School of Electrical Engineering
• Wistar Institute
• Wharton School
• University of Pennsylvania Law School
• University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
• University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science
• University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
• Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
• Ivy League
• Van Pelt Library
• Philomathean Society, the nation's oldest continually-existing literary society
• WQHS Radio, the only student-run campus radio station
• WXPN, Penn's radio station and the home of NPR's World Cafe
• General Robotics Automation Sensing and Perception Lab (GRASP Lab), a leading research center for robotics and related technologies

External links

About

• University of Pennsylvania's website
• Office of University Communications
• John Legend - University of Pennsylvania video (Class of 1999)
• Andrea Mitchell - University of Pennsylvania video (Class of 1967)
• John Heisman - University of Pennsylvania video (Class of 1892)
• Research at Penn (Research news and resources)
• Arts at Penn (Event listings and venue information)
• Penn History and Traditions (via Penn Library)
• Histories of Penn (via Penn Archives)
• Gift Planning at University of Pennsylvania
• Penn alumni Forging 50 States
• Building Penn's Brand (Pennsylvania Gazette) Background on the trustees' reasons for "re-dating [Penn's] founding from 1749 to 1740" in 1899.
• The Water Buffalo Incident (book excerpt)
• * Maps and aerial photos for Coordinates:
• Maps from , Google Maps, Live Search Maps, Yahoo! Maps, or MapQuest
• Topographic maps from TopoZone or TerraServer-USA

Selected campus organizations

• Penn Student Groups homepages
• alpha Kappa Delta Phi (nation's 1st and largest Asian Interest Sorority)]
• Alpha Phi Omegahttp://dolphin.upenn.edu/~apo/ (Penn's only co-ed community service fraternity)
• The Daily Pennsylvanian (student run campus newspaper)
• Delta Sigma Pi (The Wharton School's business fraternity)
• Delta Tau Delta, Omega Chapter
• Fels Institute of Government
• Kite and Key Society (Penn’s oldest and largest service organization)
• The Mask And Wig Club (sketch comedy)
• Penn Alumni Student Society
• The Penn Band
• Penn Cycling (Penn's Road and Mountain Bike Race Team)
• Penn Singers (light opera company, which performs a G&S operetta each spring)
• The Penn Triangle (Penn's science and engineering magazine)
• Pennsylvania Punch Bowl (humor magazine)
• PennQuest (we're ready to hike)
• Philomathean Society of the University of Pennsylvania (The nation's oldest continually-existing literary society)
• Robert A. Fox Leadership Program
• Sigma Psi Zetahttp://dolphin.upenn.edu/~sigmay/ (Penn's first and largest Asian-interest sorority)
• SPEC (Social Planning and Events Committee]
• STWing, Science and Technology Wing of the University of Pennsylvania
• Undergraduate Assembly (Student Government)
• The University of Pennsylvania Glee Club (The nation's oldest continually-operating collegiate chorus)
• University of Pennsylvania Jazz Ensemble (The first student-run jazz big-band group in the Ivy League)
• West Philadelphia Tutoring Project (Penn's largest tutoring organization)

Data sources

• The Penn World Table - Heston and Summers' Purchasing Power Parity charts

Notes

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	Schools	Wharton School The School of Engineering and Applied Science Annenberg School for Communication Graduate School of Education Law School School of Medicine School of Design Moore School of Electrical Engineering School of Dental Medicine School of Arts and Sciences
	Programs	The Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology Lauder Institute Liberal Studies and Technology Nursing and Health Care Management Vagelos Program in Life Sciences and Management Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business
	Places	University City College Hall Fisher Fine Arts Library Houston Hall Irvine Auditorium Morris Arboretum New Bolton Center Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Van Pelt Library Institute of Contemporary Art
	Athletics	Basketball Palestra Franklin Field Penn Relays The Band Philadelphia Big 5 Ivy League
	Media	34th Street Magazine Pennsylvania Punch Bowl Penn Press Wharton School Publishing The Daily Pennsylvanian WQHS Radio WXPN
	Life	Student life Penn People Wharton people Penn Glee Club Penn Masala Philomathean Society Mask and Wig Penn Singers The University of Pennsylvania Band

•  • [ e] Ivy League
Brown (Bears) • Columbia (Lions) • Cornell (Big Red) • Dartmouth (Big Green) • Harvard (Crimson) • Penn (Quakers) • Princeton (Tigers) • Yale (Bulldogs)

•  • [ e] Association of American Universities
Public	Arizona  Buffalo (SUNY)  UC Berkeley  UC Davis  UC Irvine  UCLA  UC San Diego  UC Santa Barbara  Colorado  Florida  Illinois  Indiana  Iowa  Iowa State  Kansas  Maryland  Michigan  Michigan State  Minnesota  Missouri  Nebraska  North Carolina  Ohio State  Oregon  Penn State  Pittsburgh  Purdue  Rutgers  Stony Brook (SUNY)  Texas  Texas A&M  Virginia  Washington  Wisconsin
Private	Brandeis  Brown  Caltech  Carnegie Mellon  Case Western Reserve  Chicago  Columbia • Cornell  Duke  Emory  Harvard  Johns Hopkins  MIT  Northwestern  NYU  Penn  Princeton  Rice  Rochester  USC  Stanford  Syracuse  Tulane  Vanderbilt  Washington University  Yale
Canadian	McGill  Toronto

•  • [ e] Colleges and Universities in Metropolitan Philadelphia

The American College • Arcadia University • Art Institute of Philadelphia • Bryn Mawr College • Cabrini College • Chestnut Hill College • Cheyney University • Curtis Institute of Music • Delaware Valley College • Drexel University • Eastern University • Gratz College • Gwynedd-Mercy College • Haverford College • Holy Family University • Immaculata University • La Salle University • Lincoln University • Manor College • Moore College of Art and Design • Neumann College • Peirce College • Penn State Abington • Penn State Delaware County • Penn State Great Valley • Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts • Pennsylvania College of Optometry • Philadelphia Biblical University • Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine • Philadelphia University • Reconstructionist Rabbinical College • The Restaurant School • Rosemont College • Saint Joseph's University • Swarthmore College • Temple University • Thomas Jefferson University • Tyler School of Art • University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey • University of the Arts • University of the Sciences in Philadelphia • University of Pennsylvania • Ursinus College • Valley Forge Christian College • Villanova University • West Chester University • Westminster Theological Seminary • Widener University

•  • [ e] Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges
Boston University • Brown University • Columbia University • Cornell University • Dartmouth College • Georgetown University • Harvard University • College of the Holy Cross • MIT • Northeastern University • University of Pennsylvania • Princeton University • Rutgers University • Syracuse University • University of Wisconsin-Madison • Yale