Graduate School of Education Groundbreaking

April 19, 2022

Interim President Wendell Pritchett, joined Dean Pam Grossman, Doug Korn, Chair, GSE Board of Advisors, and architect Philip Chen to celebrate the Graduate School of Education Building Expansion Project.  Thanks to remarkable leaders and donors, Penn GSE’s Extraordinary Impact Campaign dramatically increased funding for priorities across the School.  At the heart of the campaign, this building expansion will keep Penn GSE—and the future educators and leaders we produce—at the forefront of a new era of education.  The state-of-the-art facility will promote cross-disciplinary collaboration, engage partners across and beyond Penn, and provide twenty-first-century learning spaces that are both flexible and technologically advanced to accommodate a range of forward- thinking teaching and learning approaches.  The new space promotes Dean Grossman’s vision of “One Penn GSE” by bringing the majority of the School’s programs, students, faculty, and staff to one location on campus.  The School’s central building at 3700 Walnut Street will be merged with nearby Stiteler Hall via a three-story addition that will provide a new entry to GSE from the 37th Street Walk.  The two-story courtyard addition will house 3 large, flexible classrooms, a new makerspace, innovation studio, and a multimedia lab.  This exciting building expansion reflects not only the School’s sterling reputation for educational research, practice, and leadership, but our commitment to moving education in innovative new directions.

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Photographs by Krista Patton.