Strong and Inclusive Infrastructure

Our Strategic Priorities

1. Upgrade current spaces to be state-of-the-art and maximize student experiences through redesigning classrooms to accommodate cutting-edge pedagogy and renovating student spaces to help facilitate better teaching and learning.
2. Elevate the IT user experience to provide innovative and efficient technology services, resulting in improved digital intelligence and rapid data growth.
3. Invest in people through enterprise-level development so that employees will feel competent, knowledgeable, and acclimated to their work environment and be enabled for success.

The Path Forward

Upgrading current spaces to maximize student experiences is an important priority for the School. Redesigning classrooms to accommodate cutting-edge pedagogy and renovating student spaces will help facilitate better teaching and learning. Our goal is to remain competitive by offering some of the best nursing students and faculty in the country a state-of-the-art and attractive learning and teaching environment. Each space upgrade offers the opportunity for a donor(s) to have named recognition for their support in helping us to make this a reality. Goal: $3M over five years.

The Fund for Enhanced Learning Spaces: Nursing’s building was completely renovated a number of years ago. However, in order to remain competitive with our peer nursing schools across the country, we must continually upgrade our building (especially student learning and wellness spaces) to offer the most functional and attractive environment as possible. Ideally, we seek to create a fund that will give us the flexibility to address priority spatial needs as they arise in real-time to better serve our students.

This collective fund will help us to create and/or transform such spaces as:

• A student wellness space/lounge: Mental health and wellness is important for all Penn students—especially those at Nursing. Due to their rigorous studies, as well as mandatory clinical rotations, nursing students often experience an added layer of stress. That’s why we are keenly interested and very intentional about promoting health and wellness for the entire student body. Our goal is to help them attain and maintain a healthy state of being by providing a rich reservoir of resources that educate and empower, as well as a comfortable space in which to do so.

• Updated classrooms designed to accommodate new modalities of learning.

• New furniture to create a welcoming learning environment by enhancing functionality and improving aesthetics.