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The University of Pennsylvania (also known as '''Penn'''In addition to ''Penn,'' ''U of P'' and ''Pennsylvania,'' ''UPenn'' has come into fairly common usage due to university officials establishing the domain name of the university as "upenn.edu." ''Penn'' has been used by sportswriters for at least a century, e.g. 1 Official emphasis on ''Penn'' began c. 1990 and intensified in 2002 with President Rodin's "One University" initiative.[http://www.dailypennsylvanian.com/vnews/display.v/ART/3d48ac7827f61?in_archive=1 . The University's formal branding and usage guidelines [http://www.upenn.edu/webguide/style_guide/identity.html , [http://www.business-services.upenn.edu/creativecommunications/pdf/logostyleguide.pdf] specify ''Penn'' and the "Penn-University of Pennsylvania" logo but do not explicitly deprecate ''UPenn'' or other abbreviations. The recent popularity of ''UPenn'' is probably influenced by campus email addresses which use the domain name "upenn.edu," and possibly by parallels with '' 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.3http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/rankindex_brief.php Penn is particularly noted for its schools of business, law and medicine (see '' BusinessWeek '' magazine and '' U.S. News And World Report '').http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/rankindex_brief.php 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.http://grants.nih.gov/grants/award/awardtr.htm 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).http://www.upenn.edu/almanac/volumes/v53/n28/uc.html In 2006, it ranked fourth among U.S. universities in fundraising, bringing in about $409.5 million in private support.http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aDSe5LFAV18s 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 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"Cheyney, Edward Potts. ''History of the University of Pennsylvania 1740–1940'' University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia. 1940. pp 46–48. (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 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.4 These three schools were part of the same institution and were overseen by the same board of Trustees.http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/features/1700s/penn1700s.html 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." 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 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 , 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.56 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 , 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 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").7 ACADEMICS Undergraduate programs The University of Pennsylvania has four undergraduate schools:
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:
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: |
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