March 27, 2008
Did You Know… that the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Center at Penn, one of the oldest and most active programs of its kind in the country, has been celebrating 25 Years of Service during this academic year? Celebration events included an Open House last September and alumni/student activities during Homecoming as well as during the upcoming Alumni Weekend. The highlight event is a Cocktail Reception & Dinner this Saturday, March 29 in Houston Hall, during Penn's annual LGBTQ pride and awareness week. Nearly 300 students, alumni and friends will join Center staff and Penn President Amy Gutmann in saluting the extraordinary work of the Center and recognizing Penn's leadership in creating and supporting diversity on campus. Letters of congratulation have been received from Pennsylvania Governor Rendell, C’65, and Philadelphia Mayor Nutter, W’79, among others.The LGBT Center at Penn supports students, staff, alumni, and faculty and increases the general Penn community’s understanding and acceptance of its sexual and gender minority members.
Read more about the dinner and the Center.
March 21, 2008
Did You Know… that to ensure that talented, high-achieving students can chart their educational paths without regard to financial resources, the University of Pennsylvania has launched a new financial-aid initiative to make a Penn education affordable for students from low- and middle-income families? Under the new financial-aid initiative, a student from a typical family with income less than $90,000 will no longer pay tuition. A student from a typical family with income less than $40,000 will not be expected to pay tuition, room or board. The program, reviewed this week at a meeting of the Penn trustees' executive committee, eliminates loans for financially eligible undergraduates, enabling students from a broad range of economic backgrounds to graduate debt-free.
In other good news this week for Penn students and their families, the Penn trustees also approved the smallest percentage increase in tuition and fees in seven years.
For more information on Penn's new financial-aid initiative as well as the tuition increase please click here.
March 14, 2008
Did You Know… that NASA astronaut Garrett Reisman, a member aboard the Shuttle Endeavor which launched earlier this week on Tuesday morning, March 11, is a Penn alumnus? Garrett, EAS'90, W'90, will be delivered to the International Space Station during this mission and his expected return to Earth is May 2008.
Read more at the Shuttle Endeavor's mission site (Garrett is in the center of the picture).
Read more about Garrett Reisman, EAS'90, W'90.
March 3, 2008
Did You Know… that Linking Legacies, the student-led program facilitated through the Alumni Council on Admissions in the Sweeten Alumni House, is already in its third year? Linking Legacies, a buddy program for high school juniors and seniors who are legacies of Penn, is designed to help prospective students get to know the Penn of TODAY. The popular program puts prospective legacies into contact with current legacy students via email so that the current students can share their experiences of college life, answer questions, and help personalize the application process and life at Penn for high school legacies applicants.
Read more here. |
