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Changing Universities to Change the World (Alumni Weekend event)

May 13, 2023
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3:00pm
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4:45pm

Admissions Visitor's Center*
Claudia Cohen Hall, Ground Floor
249 S. 36th Street

Changing Universities to Change the World: 30 Years of the Netter Center for Community Partnerships

Sponsored by the Netter Center and the Class of 1973 as part of Penn's Alumni Weekend

Join Provost-designate John L. Jackson, Jr., the Walter H. Annenberg Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication and Richard Perry University Professor, and Netter Center founding director Ira Harkavy (C’70, GR’79) for an animated conversation about the past, present, and future of university-community engagement. They will discuss Penn’s relationship with West Philadelphia as it has evolved in the last 50+ years, particularly the development and work of the Netter Center for Community Partnerships. They will also discuss the Netter Center’s leadership in supporting a democratic civic and community engagement movement that has spread across higher education in the U.S. and around the world.

Netter Center alumni, including a graduating senior, will then respond and provide critical reflections on the personal impacts of civic and community engagement on their Penn experience and beyond. Respondents include: 

  • Lincoln Ellis, C03, Civil Rights and Employment Attorney, based in Santa Monica, CA
  • Janeé Franklin, C13, Employee Experience Specialist at Catholic Relief Services, based in Baltimore, MD.
  • Alisa Ghura, C23, 2023 Thouron Scholar and outgoing Chair of the Netter Center Student Advisory Board, from Washington, D.C.

Light reception to follow celebrating the Netter Center’s 30th anniversary. 

Registration encouraged but not required.

*Please be advised: due to ongoing construction on campus, some routes to the Admissions Visitor’s Center will not be accessible during Alumni Weekend. Please consult the below map to plan your route.

At this time, the most direct routes to Claudia Cohen Hall are available when entering through 36thSt. and Spruce St., or 36th St. and Walnut St. For those requiring wheelchair accessibility, we recommend entering via 36th St. and Spruce St.

Please note, the Visit Center is not accessible via the Penn Commons, and there are longer detours for those entering via 34th street.

Click here to view Campus Construction Map and entrances to the Admissions Visitor's Center/Claudia Cohen Hall