The University of Pennsylvania is a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania,United States. It is one of nine colonial colleges and was chartered prior to the U.S. Declaration of Independence when Benjamin Franklin,the university's founder and first president,advocated for an educational institution that trained leaders in academia,commerce,and public service. Penn identifies as the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,though this representation is challenged by other universities since Franklin first convened the board of trustees in 1749,arguably making it the fifth-oldest.
Temple University is a public state-related research university in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1884 by the Baptist minister Russell Conwell and his congregation at the Grace Baptist Church of Philadelphia,then called Baptist Temple. Today,Temple is the second-largest university in Pennsylvania by enrollment and awarded 9,128 degrees in the 2023-24 academic year. It has a worldwide alumni base of 378,012,with 352,175 alumni residing in the United States.
The Wharton School is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania,a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia. Established in 1881 through a donation from Joseph Wharton,a co-founder of Bethlehem Steel,the Wharton School is the world's oldest collegiate business school.
Cabrini University was a private Catholic university in Radnor Township,Pennsylvania. It was founded by the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in 1957,and was named after the first American naturalized citizen saint,Mother Frances Cabrini. It was one of the first universities in the United States to make community service a graduation requirement for all undergraduates;having a core curriculum centered on social justice. Due to ongoing financial challenges,the university closed at the end of the 2023–2024 academic year,with ownership of the university's campus passing to Villanova University.
Michael Anthony Nutter is an American politician who served as the 98th Mayor of Philadelphia from 2008 to 2016. A member of the Democratic Party,he is also a former member of the Philadelphia City Council from the 4th district and had served as the 52nd Ward Democratic Leader until 1990. Nutter also served as the President of the United States Conference of Mayors from 2012 to 2013,and is a former member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council.
Judith Rodin is an American research psychologist,executive,university president,and global thought-leader. She served as the 12th president of the Rockefeller Foundation from 2005 to 2017. From 1994 to 2004,Rodin served as the 7th president of the University of Pennsylvania,and the first permanent female president of an Ivy League university. She is known for her significant contributions to the fields of behavioral medicine and health psychology,higher education,and philanthropy,as well as championing the concepts of impact investing and resilience.
Pindaros Roy Vagelos is an American physician and business executive,who was president and chief executive officer (1985) and chairman (1986) of the American pharmaceutical company Merck &Co..
Linda Darling-Hammond is an American academic who is the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. She was also the President and CEO of the Learning Policy Institute. She is author or editor of more than 25 books and more than 500 articles on education policy and practice. Her work focuses on school restructuring,teacher education,and educational equity. She was education advisor to Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign and was reportedly among candidates for United States Secretary of Education in the Obama administration.
Thomas Ehrlich is an American legal scholar. From 2000 to 2010 he was a Senior Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. He has previously served as president of Indiana University,provost of the University of Pennsylvania,and Dean of Stanford Law School. He was also the first president of the Legal Services Corporation in Washington,D.C.,and the first director of the International Development Cooperation Agency,reporting to President Carter.
The University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education,commonly known as Penn GSE,is the education school of University of Pennsylvania,a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania. Formally established as a department in 1893 and a school at the University of Pennsylvania in 1915,Penn GSE has historically had research strengths in teaching and learning,the cultural contexts of education,language education,human development,quantitative research methods,and practitioner inquiry. Katharine Strunk is the current dean of Penn GSE;she succeeded Pam Grossman in 2023.
William Rawle was an American lawyer from Philadelphia,who served as United States district attorney in Pennsylvania from 1791 to 1800. He founded The Rawle Law Offices in 1798 which evolved into Rawle &Henderson,the oldest law firm in the United States. He was the first chancellor of the Philadelphia bar association and published several influential legal texts including A View of the Constitution of the United States. He was the first to argue for secession in the United States.
The School of Professional Studies (SPS),earlier known as the School of Continuing Education,is one of the seventeen schools comprising Columbia University. It offers eighteen master's degrees programs,certificate programs,pre-college programs,graduate school preparation,summer courses,postbaccalaureate studies,auditing programs,executive education,and English as a second language programs.
David Paul Montgomery was an American businessman and baseball executive. He served as chairman,minority-owner,and president of the Philadelphia Phillies of Major League Baseball.
Rosemarie Greco began her career in the financial services industry as a bank-branch secretary;rising to be one of the highest-ranking woman in banking in the United States. She is currently co-chairwoman of VISION 2020,a national initiative for women's economic and social equality that works with affiliated organizations to advance issues important to women.
Douglas E. Lynch is an academic administrator and education entrepreneur who has made significant contributions to education innovation and also sparked controversy.
Patrick Timothy Harker is the President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. Harker previously served as the President of University of Delaware. He was the dean of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania from 2001 to 2007. He began his presidency of the University of Delaware in 2007 and resigned in 2015.
JoAnne Adrienne Epps was an American legal scholar and academic. After serving as the executive vice president and provost of Temple University,she was the university's 13th president. She was the first Black woman to be permanently appointed and serve as President of the University.
Jerry (Yoram) Wind is The Lauder Professor and Professor of Marketing at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania,and is the founding director of the Wharton "think tank”,The SEI Center for Advanced Studies in Management.
Loretta J. Mester was president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.
The University of Pennsylvania College of Arts &Sciences (CAS) is the oldest undergraduate college at the University of Pennsylvania,a private Ivy League university,situated on the university's main campus in University City,Philadelphia. The college traces its roots to the establishment of a secondary school known as Unnamed Charity School in 1740. In 1749,Benjamin Franklin and twenty-one leading citizens of Philadelphia officially founded a secondary school named the Academy of Philadelphia. In 1755,the secondary school was expanded to include a collegiate division known as the College of Philadelphia. The secondary and collegiate institutions were known collectively as The Academy and College of Philadelphia. The college received its charter from Thomas Penn and Richard Penn. Penn CAS is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-oldest chartered college in the United States.
