Testimonial 9

“Long a significant voice for diversity, inclusion, and equity among faculty, staff, and students, Penn, in this moment of national moral crisis and renewed awareness of systemic racism, has an opportunity to shift the needle on public education in Philadelphia. This burden is not Penn’s alone, but its position of status and privilege can be powerfully leveraged through contributions to an Educational Equity Fund aimed at making the city’s schools every bit as good as those in neighboring counties. Although Philadelphia’s appalling poverty rate has many root causes, underfunded public schools is surely one of the most visible and disturbing. Penn needs to do its part to change that.”

—Neville E. Strumpf, Professor and Past Interim Dean, School of Nursing