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Student Program August 22, 2024 Undergraduate Urban Research Colloquium (UURC) Urban Development

Article February 16, 2022 Getting the Education and Workforce Training Our Nation Needs Penn IUR Faculty Fellow Laura W. Perna discusses the broad potential impacts of federally funded tuition-free community colleges in the United States. Laura Perna Anchor Institutions

Oct 12 2021 Past Event Community College: Who Should Pay?

Publication May 19, 2021 Confronting the System: How Local Cross-Sector Education Collaborations Address Barriers to Postsecondary Access & Attainment Anchor Institutions

Scholar Stefanie DeLuca

James Coleman Professor of Sociology and Social Policy, Johns Hopkins University

Publication May 18, 2020 Brothers in Grief: The Stages of Grieving for a School and its Students Following Three Shooting Deaths of Black Teenage Boys During my two years of ethnographic research in an all-boys, all-Black Philadelphia high school, three students died in separate incidents of community gun violence, impacting dozens of their friends and classmates and the entire school community.

Publication April 17, 2020 Access to Quality Higher Education My research examines the ways that social structures, educational practices, and public policies promote and limit college access and success, particularly for low-income, first-generation, and non-traditional students. As the novel coronavirus triggers sweeping changes to the delivery of higher education, I will be keeping a close eye on two evolving and interrelated issues in particular: the role of technology in supporting student success, and the characteristics of learners who do—and do not—have access to high-quality higher education. Laura Perna Anchor Institutions

Initiatives February 15, 2018 Innovation in Higher Education in Connecticut Connecticut developed, with support from Penn IUR, a roadmap to foster innovation and entrepreneurship across the state’s public and private institutions of higher education. Urban Development Anchor Institutions

Faculty Fellow Pam Grossman

Professor of Education, Graduate School of Education

Affiliated PhD Student Wichinpong “Park” Sinchaisri

PhD Candidate in Operations, Information, and Decisions, School of Management, The Wharton School

Article March 9, 2017 Improving the Evidence Base for Access to Quality Pre-K Early childhood education has captured the nation’s attention and holds a rare spot in the center of the political aisle. This is not surprising given that a quality Pre-K experience can save the public at least three dollars for every dollar spent, particularly for children who live in poverty and experience numerous risks to their educational success. In Philadelphia, the poorest of the ten largest cities in America, Mayor Kenney established the Commission on Universal Pre-K to expand access to quality Pre-K in the city, with the ultimate goal of universal access for all three- and four-year-old children. This introduced one of the most important decisions in Kenney’s early term as Mayor—how to expand quality Pre-K given limited funds and thousands of children in need. As researchers, the critical question for us became how to provide useful information to Kenney’s Commission in a timely manner so they can allocate funds to serve the most vulnerable children first. Anchor Institutions

Article September 13, 2016 Lessons Learned for Transforming Urban Public Education Over the past 15 years, new education policies have led to a host of reforms throughout the country, spanning everything from standardized accountability testing and class size reduction to school choice and merit pay, to name just a few. Which of these reforms have actually worked to improve the lives of students in the nation’s urban schools—and which have failed to live up to expectations despite the best of intentions? Matthew Steinberg Anchor Institutions

Fellow Aromar Revi

Co-Chair of Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IHHS)

Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 2

Emerging Scholar Peter Blair

Associate Professor of Education, Harvard University

State & Local Finance Anchor Institutions

Faculty Fellow Jere Behrman

William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Economics

Climate Change & Resilience

Fellow Andrew Davidson

Founder and President, Andrew Davidson & Co. Founder, Financial Life Cycle Education Corp

Climate Change & Resilience Housing

Research Paper May 9, 2016 Educating Commercial Real Estate Brokers on Green Leasing / Energy Efficiency This project was sponsored by the Consortium for Building Energy Innovation (CBEI), a program of the Department of Energy. CBEI was a five-year program tasked with bridging the technology, market dynamics, policy, and human behavior in order to reduce energy used by the commercial buildings sector. Susan Wachter State & Local Finance

Article March 8, 2016 Urban Universities and Innovation In this issue of Urban Link, we explore the relationship between urban anchor institutions—in particular higher education institutions— and innovation. Anchor Institutions

Article October 6, 2015 My Testimony to Congress: How We Can Improve College Access and Completion For Low-Income Students Laura W. Perna writes about improving college access and success for low-income and first-generation students. Laura Perna Anchor Institutions

Affiliated PhD Student Kailey Spencer

Doctoral Candidate, Education Policy, Graduate School of Education

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