The President's Report 1983

President's Report 1983

Certain of the ingredients of the 1983 Commencement ceremonies in mid- May remain vividly in my mind as I reflect upon the University of Penn- sylvania and our sense of direction and mission in this third year of my administration. The awarding of degrees symbolizes the close of one stage of a person's life and the commencing of another stage. So those of us who bear responsibility for the ongoing life of the University have completed the process of identifying certain salient ele- ments in Pennsylvania's future, and we are now involved in the planning which will serve to shape the future. I want to share some of the planning that is underway. The audience enthusiasm which greeted our Commencement speaker, syndicated columnist Ellen Goodman, indicated clearly that she had struck a chord in her reflections on the real world. At the same time her message went to the heart of what a university should be. Ms. Goodman suggested to the graduates that there is no sense in pretending that they can plan a future for themselves without regard to the future of the country and the future of humanity; that there is nothing more self-defeating and reckless than a plan to ignore the public world. Here at the University we are examining how we can most effectively - relate our human capital and the attendant resources to the recognized needs and expectations of the larger ; society. This report will focus upon ., people... planning.. . and progress within Penn.

Sheldon Hackney

Throughout its history, the University Penn's Future be realized without the work of a dedi- of Pennsylvania has reviewed and re- Choosing cated administrative and support staff. vised its educational During We must continue to build the sort of programs. Following eighteen months of extensive the since the end of environment that leads to productive thirty-seven years discussions of long-range plans, I pre- the Second World War, there have been and satisfying work lives for all of Penn's sented a strategic plan to the trustees three exercises carried employees. My vision of the University major planning last January. The plan is called "Choos- out members of the faculty and stu- is inherently a collective one, capturing by ing Penn's Future." This title was meant dent in concert with the academic a common sense of purpose and resolve, body to emphasize a commitment to active administration. In 1946 a Committee on a jointly held sense of both past and and purposeful planning, and to declare Educational Policy and Planning submit- present on the part of all those associ- our intention to shape our own future, ted to the and trustees a com- ated in any way with Pennsylvania. president rather than leaving it to be molded by set of findings and recom- The planning process that has been prehensive events and impersonal forces. I believe mendations to described commits the entire University guide post-war planning. the strategy contained in this document Under the direction of President to self study. Detailed five-year plans is the right one for Penn at this particu- Gaylord Harnwell, there evolved during from the schools and resource centers lar time. The four general planning max- the 1954-1959 what came to be are being reviewed by the Academic period ims that serve to define our priorities known as The Educational a and Committee, which Survey, and establish a framework for future Planning Budget of is a broad-based, group compilation major reports involving decisions are: highly-respected the deliberations of 300 individuals. of University citizens responsible for Refinement of these reports led to an The Universitys quality depends on the providing the president and provost integrated development plan and major strength of its faculty; advice on future priorities. It has the in the decade of the sixties. ability to strike a critical balance be- fund-raising The University must conserve its It was the of the tween resources and aspirations. Our report University resources and protect itsfinancial Commission the task, centrally, will be to take the sepa- Development during integrity; early years of Martin Meyerson's rate school and resource center plans administration that enunciated the con- The University's special character is cept of One University, which in turn reflected in the diversity ofpeople it resulted in the Program for the Eighties attracts to its community; and fund raising campaign. The Universitys scale must ensure the These efforts have planning-funding highest academic quality of its students transformed the The Faculty Honorees in 1983 University. campus and research efforts. has been rebuilt, the and student Robert Austrian, ProfessorofResearch Medicine faculty ... IV ScholarAward. To be successful over the next dec- Century body broadened, and the University's Mildred Cohn, Professor Emeritus of Biochemis- research base strengthened as well as ades, the University not only must ttyandBiophysics... National Medalof Science. extended. Our undergraduate programs adhere to these axioms but must re- Thomas P Hughes. ProfessorofHistoryandSoci- to three with olog,of Science... Fellow of theInstitutefor have been recast and improved, while spond special challenges Advanced andFellow theAmerican commitment that have Study of our professional programs have re- the fervor and Academy of Arts andSciences. mained nationally prominent; our Ph.D. given Pennsylvania its reputation and Herman P Schwan, Professorof Bioengineering ... The 1983 Edison Medal. programs have produced more scholars distinction. These challenges are: IreneI. Winter, Associate Professorof History of and teachers than in any period of the Undergraduate education: Art... MacA rthur Fellow. University's history. Research excellence; and I took During the summer after Student financial assistance. office, we began a planning process Guggenheim Winners for 1983 Each school and resource center has aimed at analyzing some of the most Seven Pennsylvania faculty members were among been formulating its own detailed five- the Guggenheim Fellows namedlast year across the pressing problems facing the University. informed the indi- nation. The awards covering ayear's travel and This was to year plan by priorities 'choice to: process designed develop Future. These research infields of the winners went for these and cated in Choosing Penn Dr. Bludman, options meeting problems with a clear statement Sidney ProfesorofPhysics,forstu- to initiate a broad discussion of the plans will begin dies in slellarevolution andcollapse. of the intellectual directions over the Dr Farriss. Associate policy issues involved. Out of these Nancy ProfessorofHistory, next decade and must necessarily in- forwork on food in thecosmology and ecologyof discussions with individuals, and with colonial Mesoamerica. clude frank appraisals of current pro- those who spoke for officially organized Dr. Daniel Hoffman, ProfessorofEnglish andpoet grams, administrative organization and groups, evolved a set of planning direc- in residence, forstudy ofform andfable in thefic- functions, and facilities. New lion William Faulkner. tions for the immediate future. The physical of ventures will be identified along with the Dr. K C. Nicolaou, Professorof Chemistry, for undergirding all of the single proposition substitutions and reallocations neces- studies in the totalsynthesisof naturalproducts. advice we received was that the Univer- the to fund them. Finally, questions of Dr. Rosemary Stevens, Professorof History sity must strengthen itself as an institu- sary andSociologyof Science, forstudy ofAmerican scale must be addressed by examining in the20th tion of first choice for faculty, students, hospitals century. the a decade of economic Dr. Marc Associate His- and staff. ability, during Trachtenbe,g, Professorof uncertainty, to maintain the quality of tory, forwork on strategic thought in America, the student body and to make critical in- 1945-80. Neil Weiiver, Fine vestments in new and Professorof Arts,for faculty programs. painting. At the same time we must recognize that none of our academic objectives can

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and meld them into a University plan. the standing faculty, the total number of A Research The outcome should be a fundamental minorities increased by twenty-nine per University statement of the scale and cent the 1978-1982. The University's during period Penn is one of the premier research for the balance of the 1980's and new minority faculty repre- scope twenty-five universities the nation, ranking elev- In committee sented one-third ofall positions added to in beyond. February a repre- enth in the total amount of expenditures Association the faculty. senting the Middle States standing for research. In the past year we Provost Ehrlich and I are committed of Colleges and Schools will be on the received $128 million of such momentum. We must nearly campus to conduct an accreditation to maintaining this funds, 1504 awards. and spread among visit. We envision the visiting commit- continue to recruit aggressively the federal for FY1984 numbers of women and Although budget tee playing a useful role in the review of appoint larger includes real increases for basic black and scholars to the individual school and resource center Hispanic research, we face continuing challenges To this end, we have plans and in making sure that a sensible standing faculty. to the of our research effort. a committee of quality University plan emerges. appointed standing These include changes in the distribution and staff to advise on minority faculty of federal funds for basic research, the the issues of concern to minori- special maintenance and improvement of modern ties and to with the recruitment, help research facilities, the provision of easy The Faculty and Teaching retention and of junior promotion access to computers across the campus, and staff. Even as the schools and resource cen- minority faculty the identification and funding of new To help focus consideration of under- ters become more immersed in planning research thrusts, increased support for education at Pennsylvania, a for their futures, new evidence of the graduate graduate students, and the simplification new Faculty Council on Undergraduate University's strengths appears in the of reporting requirements. The $1.4 Education has been formed, chaired by form of evaluations by persons external million surplus in this past year's operat- the provost and including proportionate to the University and grants from public ing budget is being utilized for laboratory representation from each of the schools. and private agencies. In an assessment renovations and for the in-house Univer- The Council is presently considering the of thirty-two Ph.D. research-doctorate sity Research Foulidation. development of options and mechanisms programs made by the conference board Despite significant increases in some for our undergraduates that draw on the of scholarly societies, twenty-one aspects of federal funding, the outlook strengths, experiences, and academic departments at Pennsylvania received for the biomedical sciences is still perspective of faculty from the liberal highly commendable ratings based on a troublesome. The budget for research arts and the professions. At the same combination of measures, including the grants in the National Institutes of time, the associate provost is working reputation of our faculty members Health is being increased by less than with his colleagues on a report to assess among their peers. the rate of inflation, and the Depart- the scale, scope, and organization of In addition to winning top national ment of Health and Human Services is graduate education at Penn. Particular awards like the MacArthur Prize, the seeking to impose reductions in attention be given to the funding of Edison Medal and the National Medal of will overhead charges paid to universities. graduate education and increasing fellow- Science, members of the University Because two-thirds of all grants ship support of outstanding students. once again were well repre- received by the University come from faculty careful study and year-long sented the Fellows. Following those sources, Penn's base of research among Guggenheim effort to find a viable alternative, Provost The recipients are identified elsewhere support will be under great pressure. Ehrlich and I reluctantly decided to in this Research in science is in a par- report. recommend to the trustees that the plant Three deanships have been ticularly dynamic phase due both to the important School of Public and Urban Policy be filled. Dr. Joel Connaroe returned from flood of new information resulting from phased out, while ensuring protections leave as the executive director of the the application of new techniques, par- for the programs and people involved. Modern Language Association to head ticularly genetic, to its study, and to the The process of review that we followed the of Arts and Sciences; Dr. Jan evident applications of much of Faculty about the for practical T. Lindhe his at the appropriate settings public this work. this the resigned deanship at the con- Sharing perception, of to become policy analysis University the Morris University Gothenburg vinced us that a combination of current Biology Department, dean of our Dental School: and Russell Arboretum, and the vice provost for realities precluded continuation of SPUP Palmer came to the Wharton School research have been working together to as a separate school. Pennsylvania is rich from his as chief executive establish a plant science institute. Par- position in talented faculty and students working officer of Touche Ross International. tial funding for a building to house the in the public policy field. Given the goal We are ever mindful of the responsi- institute has been obtained from the to strengthen public policy studies at the bility and need to increase the numbers Seely Mudd Foundation; a nationwide University, a task force subsequently and percentage of women and minorities search for an institute director has recommended that the faculty members in the faculty and nonacademic work yielded several highly qualified candi- and the several degree programs be force. A issued the Director, dates; and expressions of support have report by distributed in the Graduate School of Office of Affirmative Action, the been received from several chemical covering Fine Arts, the Wharton School, and the 1973-1982, indicates that the Additional funds are now period School of Arts and Sciences. A new companies. number and percentage of women among being sought. group, chaired by Professor Curtis the standing faculty has modestly but Reitz, is at work on the best ways to steadily increased despite decreases in ensure strong public policy research and the total number of faculty in a number of teaching at the University. schools. In the case of minorities among

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University-Industry "Basic research has the Relations reliably provided startingpoint for new technologies, and seventy percent of it still takes The number of participants from the university and the corporate world who place on campuses." attended a Partners in the Research Enterprise conference at the University last December reflected the high level of interest in the subject. Our purpose in arranging the conference was to lay out as frankly as possible the advan- tages as well as the pitfalls of new relationships that are being developed between industry and academe. Basic research has reliably provided the starting point for new technologies, and seventy percent of it still takes place on campuses. Recognizing that the gap between the discovery of a basic idea and its application has been steadily decreasing, industry has an interest in becoming more closely con- nected to the source of new ideas. Both universities and industry are paying attention to the new relationships that are emerging. There was agreement at our conference on the seriousness of the problems involved in bringing universities and industry into closer partnership. From the point of view of the universities, those problems revolve around the threatened diversion of the faculty from teaching and basic research into more applied investigation, and even Research on the fabrication of micro-chips for integrated circuits is carried out in the into the management of small companies Department ofElectrical Engineering. in cases where research results in a technological breakthrough. Moreover, in scholars faculty members engaged proprietary linked by mutual adherence to Academic Health Center research or in basic research with the standards for testing the truth and for promise of some near-term application freely communicating the results of The history, location, and present might find themselves in a "diversion-of- research in the cause of advancing leadership associated with the Univer- interest" situation with their duties at knowledge. sity's academic health center combine to the a different now its interest university pulling way Industry perceives make it a national and international from their interest in research and to universities as two- truly programs responsibility resource. Here one finds faculties of sponsored by a corporation. fold: beyond helping supply some medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine Private industry worries mostly about research funds, it is prepared to help and nursing all situated on a single cam- how to evaluate basic research wher- impress the government with the fact pus with their teaching hospitals and ever it is performed. Industry currently that basic research is not an esoteric clinical facilities. Perhaps at no other invests heavily in research programs of value but fundamental to the future of time has the involvement of University its own. There is a growing awareness American and its enterprise competitive teachers and in health on the of that it stance in a hi-tech practitioners part industry depends highly competitive issues been as on universities for the new ideas that world. There is that policy important. general agreement The nation is in the midst of funda- come from basic research and also for a there is no other source of the required mental changes in the organization and steady flow of well-trained scientific and support to be found anywhere else in financing of health care. The changes technological talent. the country, and that the future of our are being driven by two forces, renewed Both sides further recognize the nation's economy depends very much on effort of the federal government to con- essential tension between the a basic science competi- healthy community. tam the costs of health care and the tive ethic of the free enterprise system, The University's policies with regard entry of corporate business into the with its legitimate need for secretive- to research relationships with private health care system. After years of ness, and the cooperative ethos of the industry have been re-examined and academy as a community of independent refined.

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watching rapid increases in the costs of Life The must health care, particularly hospital costs, University University the Medicare Congress passed legisla- On July first we welcomed a new vice strengthen itself as an tion in 1983 which may dampen those provost for university life, Dr. James J. increases reim- institution choice through prospective Bishop, former dean of students at offirst bursement of hospital costs. Such reim- Amherst College. During the interim students. bursement is based on the of for concept period of eighteen months, the integra- diagnosis-related patient groups. There tion of academic and extracurricular stu- are two to the of aspects entry corpo- dent life had been ably managed by rate business into the health care George Koval, who has returned to the First is the wholesale marketplace. direction of a range of important student purchase of acute general care hospitals services. investor-owned and by companies, The focus of the activity in this office second the new insistence business, by during the past year has been on the which pays most of the health care bill work of several task forces which, in its benefits, that through employee capsule, have addressed the following physicians and hospitals compete for concerns: their resources. Those medical institutions that are The Freshman Year: the role of the capable of organizing themselves to deal freshman in shrinking the psychological with these new forces are most likely to size of the University. thrive in the new A environment. com- Student Career Development: providing care, plex, tertiary teaching hospital diverse opportunities for students to must respond by developing a full range learn more about various careers before of medical care which con- high quality the job placement process begins. tinues to be delivered in a cost effective manner. For Pennsylvania, this means The Informal Curriculum: extra-cur- the creation of a primary care base of ricular life and related problems of racism, sexism, abuse patients and a wider referral network in alcohol/drug The Service received and stress. University Dining order to support highly specialized recognition as the outstanding college dining in the physicians hospital. Undergraduate Attrition: the compila- program in 1983. There are two basic for strategies tion of data on how many students achieving these goals, and are not they re-enroll each term, graduate early, house. The statement issued to the mutually exclusive. The first strategy on-time or later; the nature of student campus community by the provost and postulates that the medical center ought attrition and when it occurs. to build on me at the time read, in part: its current strengths in its During the year several matters location present by enhancing its involving our policies on nondiscrimina- "No tenet ofthis institution is more important ambulatory care which is optimally tion and sexual harrassment received the than the equality-as human beings-of each responsive to the needs of patients and careful attention of formal and informal member ofthe University. Wejudge rigorously doctors, and then to on academic and standards: we referring integrate groups on the campus. One centered professional ambulatory care within patient-diagnos- the use of neither make judgments based on whether an upon University placement individual tic and treatment services using innova- facilities external is female or male, nor treat each by organizations other We shall not tolerate behavior tive patient traffic patterns and existing interested in our carelessly. recruiting students. wtthsn the that violates information systems. The second University community Here the issues involved conflicting the we all have to treat each other strategy declares that this will responsibility approach principles. Disagreements focused on as individuals with not as not be for most medical cen- dignity, objects. adequate (1) the extent to which the University ters, and that therefore should "We expect the University to be a community they should, and can with any practical oftrust :n which all members have a strong acquire an HMO, or set up satellite effect, act as an agent of reform in the sense ofbelonging and a commitment to ambulatory care operations in the and the extent to larger society, (2) respect the essential dignity of everyone else on suburbs, or purchase a community which, in affording access to its campus. We can best provide leadership for hospital with which they can compete facilities, the University is implicated in society at large by building a caring commun- more for The new effectively patients. practices that, although legal, are offen- ity that respects differences yet is tied together director of the Dr. University Hospital, sive to many in our community. I con- by the bonds ofour common humanity." Charles R. Buck, Jr., arrived at a pro- cluded that the wisest course was to time. He will in the pitious join enor- assume that our placement facilities be University policy on sexual harass- mous amount of has planning which made available for use by any potential ment in the academic, work and other been done the already by Medical employer of University students unless environments has been clearly enunci- School, and the clinical Hospital prac- the employer were practicing illegal ated. The resources available to indi- tices in these issues. addressing discrimination. viduals who believe they have been sub- A much more serious question arose jected to coercion have been identified. in the case of the alleged victimization We recognize however that this form of of a woman in a University fraternity human misbehavior requires our con-

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stant vigilance and prompt attention. lege and the remainder in the Engineer- "our sports teams had a good During the first week of school, the ing, Wharton, and Nursing Schools. provost and I issued a statement on Continued progress was made in most year... our women's teams "Conduct and Misconduct on the Cam- of the desired diversity categories. The ranked second in the Ivies pus" to the University community that Class of 1987 has 266 (12.7 per cent) outlines our expectations for the per- freshmen who have alumni legacies and our men's teams sonal conduct of all members, par- from the University. At the same time, werefourth." ticularly in regard to sexual behavior and the academic profile of the class and for tolerance of others' backgrounds and each of the schools compares favorably beliefs. We also appointed a task force in strength with last year's class, reflect- of faculty, students and staff to review ing as it does outstanding classroom further steps to be adopted. performance as well as strength in stan- dardized testing measures. The dean of admissions and his staff Athletics are optimistic about the continued ability of Penn to compete successfully with the small of institutions with One of the reasons spirits were buoyant group whom we share admitted candidates. last year on the campus is because our Good has been made in recent sports teams had a good year. Football progress delivered the "miracle on 33rd Street," years, and more ambitious steps are to the number of a share of the Ivy title for the first time underway enlarge since 1959. The women's basketball schools visited (presently some 1400), team had their best season ever, and to improve the quality of the experience for the school visitor to the the women's volleyball, hockey and ten- high nis teams won tournaments. Both men's campus, and to enhance the format and and women's lacrosse were ranked in content of recruitment publications and films. the top six in the country, the men fencers won the Ivy and Eastern titles again, and our women fencers won their first Ivy championship. Alicia McConnell Financing a Penn Education was the best collegiate woman squash player in the country. Overall, our Over the last decade, inflation and new women's teams ranked second in the federal policies have brought a funda- Ivies and our men's teams were fourth. mental change in how students finance their education. These changes have in turn raised a basic question: to what Admissions extent should government assume the Undergraduate burden of what used to be considered The Admissions Office completed the primarily a family obligation? Given the fifth year of a continuing effort to current uncertainty about government emphasize the University's commitment support, universities must be prepared to a racially and geographically diverse to look for new solutions. We recognize The women's basketball team won 16 student body. The sharp decline in the that most students and their families will games, the most ever by a Quaker squad... and number of high school graduates began require assistance in arranging equitable they saw action in an Alaskan invitational in 1979 and will continue to a predicted as well as stable financing plans for tournament. twenty-six per cent decrease in num- spreading the costs of a Penn education bers by 1991, with especially high per- over a decade or more. The University must to centages of loss from the northeastern has an opportunity and an obligation to Second, the University help access to educational for states. Furthermore, it is now predicted join in those arrangements. The direc- provide capital all students, aided as well as unaided, that by the end of the decade fully a tor of planning analysis and the vice with of third of all high school graduates will be president for finance have led an effort equitable programs long-term minority students-especially to design a new approach to financial aid financing. Third, educational should Hispanics. Our admissions goals are that we hope to have perfected and in financing as a be- directed to achieving the following kinds place for the class entering in the fall proceed three-way partnership tween the student, the and the of diversity within a highly-qualified stu- of 1984. family, with shared in dent body: racial, geographic, and In brief, we are planning a new sys- University, responsibility fact as well as in alumni-related, at the same time keep- tem of family-based financial assistance spirit. the details of this ing in mind our obligation to Common- to meet three broad goals: Although system are still and reviewed, the wealth of Pennsylvania residents. First, in a time of diminishing appli- being shaped The freshman class which entered in cant pools nationwide, the University broad outlines are clear. We plan a new September numbers 2090, with two- must retain its ability to attract and student financial assistance agency with thirds of them matriculating in the Col- admit the most qualified students general responsibility for creating and without regard to their financial means. managing the required financing instru-

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ments. Four basic plans are being The University's special character is reflected in the diversity developed, each targeted to meet a different set of financial needs it attracts to its community... and expectations: For students andfamilies who want to prepay tuition costs in order to be guaranteed no tuition increases. For students andfamilies who want to arrangefor10 years, fixed interest, secured loans covering tuition costs for allfouryears. For students andfamilies whowant guaranteed access to educational capital, at variable interest rates, for up to ten years. For students andfamilies who qualifyfor need-based aid. The University Press received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and We face a continuing trade-off be- the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Thomas tween grant aid, which must come from Rotell succeeded Maurice English (retired as unrestricted funds, and other University director). priorities. Therefore we are fashioning a system that maintains the University's commitment to need-based aid, which does not result in unreasonable levels of student indebtedness, and which encourages and extends the family's participation in financing their children's educations. Our best judgment is that unrestricted aid can increase over the next decade only as fast as the sum of all the University's unrestricted incomes-rather than in proportion to tuition revenues as over the last decade.

Norman Mailer, outspoken Pulitzer Prize The Furness Building, a 19th-century winning novelist, spent a week on campus masterpiece of Victorian architecture, now Penn as a Public Forum as Penn's first Pappas Visiting Fellow. houses the Arthur Ross Gallery.

Several events on the campus last year served to signal the University's com- student committee that successfully be in full swing next spring, so there is a mitment to providing an open forum for solicited the active participation of the great opportunity for a lively discussion the thoughtful exploration of national schools and organizations on the cam- on the campus and in the general public issues from all perspectives and to con- pus. The University does not promote about candidates, the selection process, tributing significantly to the public any particular point of view about how the issues of our time, and the discussion of these issues. We do this to prevent nuclear war. As an educa- American political system in general. both by asking the faculty to focus tional institution, the University is dedi- A million dollar gift by the family of disciplined attention on a problem of cated to the ideal of a free market in the late John C. Pappas of Boston is interest to the public and by acting as an ideas. It would not be appropriate for serving to fund three interwoven pro- intellectual magnet, attracting experts the University to presume to speak for grams to strengthen living/learning in from across the nation and around the its members on an issue of public policy the college houses. Up to six Pappas globe. We hope, through this activity, to not directly related to our educational faculty fellows will conduct special inform public debate. This is one of the purpose. I do hold the academic dogma seminars each year; some thirty Pappas with the houses important roles of higher education that something approximating the truth tutors will be affiliated of Fellows; in a democracy. will progressively emerge from the and join in a Pappas Society I was particularly pleased with the unrestricted colloquy among disciplined and distinguished visitors from many results of our forum, "Toward Prevent- investigators. fields will lecture and share ideas infor- ing Nuclear War," a series of debates, We have decided to mount another, mally. Norman Mailer's visit to campus speeches, panel discussions, and other perhaps slightly less elaborate, forum as the first Pappas Fellow last March events stretching over a thirty-day this year around the theme, "Toward was a great success; it was a week of period in the spring. The forum was Improving the American Political constant activity and was stimulative in planned at my request by a faculty- System." The presidential campaign will the best sense.

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In the visual arts, completion of the ". . the 5000 who the role the Arthur Ross Gallery in the south wing nearly persons support of of the Furness Building represents the teacher and researcher are integral to the mission of first of a number of separate galleries to be developed. It makes it possible to the University" exhibit the present and future collec- tions of the University and to bring exhibits here from outside for the enjoy- ment and education of the campus and Philadelphia communities. Mr. Ross was an undergraduate in the Wharton School, 1927-30. He has had a distinguished career in business and philanthropic activities and has also served our government as a public member on various delegations to the United Nations. The opening exhibition in the Ross Gallery comprised selected etchings by Goya from the collection of the Arthur Ross Foundation. A second exhibit was presented during the spring and summer months of paintings, sculpture, and graphics that were brought together from the various schools and offices of the University. Another exhibition of outstanding visual art, presented in the summer of 1982, was "The Jews in the Age of Rembrandt," which consisted Some one hundred Penn employees, representing nearly every department in the University, of rare prints by Rembrandt and came together in April to produce "Franklin Follies' The Kampus Kops were a hit with their his contemporaries. Laurel-and-Hardy flair In still another example of the Univer- sity's role as a forum, ceremonies took year which should result in improved former policy of 100 per cent tuition replace in March which celebrated the communications with individual mission for faculty and staff children at inauguration of the Center for History employees and groups of University per- Penn and $900 grants for faculty and staff of Chemistry. Co-sponsored by the sonnel; more effective administration of children going to other colleges. We are University of Pennsylvania and the employee benefits; increased oppor- working on ways to minimize any special American Chemical Society, the Center tunities for training and career develop- problems this shift may have on particu- plans to discover and disseminate infor- ment; and improved compensation lar members of the faculty and staff. mation about historical resources, and policies and performance appraisal. The report on the economic status of encourage scholarship and research in Members of the faculty generally the profession for 1982-83, issued by the history of chemistry and chemical derive their greatest satisfaction from the American Association of University engineering. Professor Arnold Thackray teaching and research, and from col- Professors, contained the welcome was the prime mover in this important legial relationships within their disci- news that average faculty salary levels development. plines. Yet compensation in its several expressed in real terms rose by approx- forms is a factor of great consequence, imately two per cent last year; yet this especially during a period of acute infla- does little to offset the cumulative Our Human Resources tion. A major discussion took place decline in real salaries that has occurred within the faculty last year on the in the professoriate for more than a The step taken to combine the various restructuring of tuition benefits, as decade. In the AAUP survey, the personnel functions into the Office of proposed by a Faculty Senate commit- University's salary scales continued to Human Resources one year ago reflect- tee, for the purpose of distributing rank above the ninety-fifth percentile ed our commitment to the creation of a these benefits more equitably among nationwide, and both salaries and total much benefits) warm and friendly campus community the faculty. Following healthy compensation (salaries plus debate and a mail ballot, the with the handful of and a fully satisfying work environment. faculty compare favorably The Office of Human Resources under- indicated by a three to two margin that research universities with which we are took a number of initiatives during the they favored a plan calling for gradual inclined to compare ourselves in terms movement over the next five years to of mission and human and material remission of seventy-five per cent tui- assets. tion for faculty children at Penn and a For 1983-84, the total salary increase direct grant of up to forty per cent of for the continuing standing faculty as a Penn's tuition for faculty children attend- whole was six per cent. In addition, a ing other schools. This will replace the central reserve was provided to cover

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promotions, extraordinary performance, Resources justified by corresponding increases in market adjustments, and salary inequi- Management services provided to the University ties. We expect that salary levels in real The management of an enterprise community; and that when the effects of terms will continue to rise this year in whose budget is now approaching $700 inflation were factored in, there was no view of the trend in the consumer price million demands a rare combination of support for the perception that person- index, making the third year in a row of native talent, experience, dedication and nel expenses in the central administra- real, though modest increases in com- knack for the collegial style of university tion had increased excessively. At the pensation. life. We are fortunate to have in the same time, however, the report iden- major management positions individuals tified one area in which we do not per- Salary increases for the non-academic who possess these qualities. In August form well enough: the storage, retrieval staff as a whole were comparable to we added another such person, Helen and analysis of information critical to those for the faculty. All major discrep- B. O'Bannon, who assumed the position resource allocation decisions. ancies in the tuition benefits program of senior vice to oversee the Provision of adequate computer facili- between faculty and administrative president functions: finance, human ties for research, teaching and decision- employees have been eliminated. These following resources, services, and making has been receiving a great deal changes serve to underscore our belief operational commonwealth and federal relations. of attention by two interfacing groups. that the nearly 5000 persons who sup- Mrs. O'Bannon will also the An academic computing committee, port the role of the teacher and play key role in the of long which reports to the provost, is charged researcher are integral to the mission of development range financial and administrative with determining the needs of the the University. planning. She is former Secretary of the Penn- academic community and making recom- The essential role of alumni in the fife sylvania Department of Public Welfare mendations for improving our academic of the University is perhaps most and before that served as an associate computer capabilities. An administrative clearly seen in the dedication of our dean at Carnegie-Mellon University. computing board, which is advisory to trustees, whose standing committees Other key changes in the central the vice president for finance, is con- have gained an expertise in all facets of administration were the appointment of cerned with provision of administrative University affairs and provide wise Alfred F Beers to comptroller and computing services. Reorganization of counsel and advice to the administra- Shelley Z. Green to University general the University's in-house data center is tion. During the past year, Leonore counsel; both served in acting capacities underway. Annenberg and Susan W. Catherwood prior to their appointments. The Office of Budget Analysis is in joined the board as term trustees. New Reflecting a proper concern about the midst of a dual task which carries alumni trustees are Linda C. White and how University funds are spent, the tremendous implications for our financial three who take office in October: David committee on administration of the planning. One imperative is to produce a C. Auten, William T. Creson and James Faculty Senate last year conducted a budget resource allocation plan that A. Pappas. The General Alumni Society review of administrative costs with the maximizes academic quality within the is now represented on the board by its consent and cooperation of the eight University's fiscal constraints; the president, Dr. John Hellwege. Sadly I major offices surveyed. In a detailed second goal is the development of a must report the loss of a distinguished report made to the campus community, twenty-four-month budget process for University statesman, Thomas S. the basic finding was that the increases the schools and resource centers, Gates, Jr.; his trusteeship spanned a in general administration and expense wherein quarterly reviews of budget and period of thirty-five years. spending during recent years were expense data will serve to identify emerging problems. At the same time we are in the midst of developing a capital budget for major renovation and new construction projects; here the funds must be obtained, for the most part, from external sources. Several physical plant/real estate projects engaged the attention of our business officers during the course of the year. The new Steinberg Hall- Dietrich Hall was officially dedicated in January; this $16 million rehabilitation should serve to enhance the relative position of the Wharton School in the competition for faculty and students. Through the generosity of the Albert M. Greenfleld Foundation, the Albert M. Greenfleld Intercultural Center will provide facilities for minority group organizations and serve as a focus of activities, bringing together students Donor-alumnus Saul Steinberg performing the ribbon-cutting at the official opening of from all backgrounds to examine Hall-Dietrich Hall; with him are Trustee Chairman Paul President Sheldon Steinberg Miller minority group cultures. Work is pro- Hackney and Wharton Dean Donald Carroll.

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ceeding on expansion of the Annenberg for ongoing programs. The School of School and the Performing Arts Center. Dental Medicine is pursuing a long-range "The Veterinary School Lying on the University's southern plan of reorganization and relocation. and the Morris Arboretum terminus are 18 acres of open land, the Gifts and subscriptions in 1982-83 site of the former Philadelphia General from private sources reached a gratify- have launched major Hospital. Our health affairs and financial ing total of $54,000,000. Moreover, officers have been carrying on a produc- gifts in the form of cash and securities fund-raising efforts.. tive dialogue with the several parties were the highest in the University's his- whose expressed interests are directly tory, over $49,000,000. Annual Giving involved. It now appears that a fair rose by ten per cent to $8,255,000, resolution for use of the land will soon with exceptional growth in membership be achieved. in the Benjamin Franklin Society com- FY 1982-83 was one of the most posed of those loyal friends who con- successful years for energy manage- tribute over $1,000 per year in critically ment and conservation efforts. For the needed unrestricted funds. first time in ten years, utility expenditures actually declined as compared with the previous year. Although unseason- Governmental Relations ably mild weather was a factor, this reduction occurred at a time when the As a major teaching and research University's physical size is increasing. university, Pennsylvania must relate As a result, we are now able to free up continuously to various levels and agen- money for use elsewhere in the budget cies of government. Approximately for purposes that are central to our twenty per cent of our revenues come academic mission. from the Commonwealth of Penn- On page 22, the reader will find a sylvania and United States government, statement on University finances for the not including federal and state student year 1982-83 by the vice president for loan monies. Early in my administration finance. I commissioned a study of Penn's governmental relations activities as compared to a small number of peer - Building Penn's Future institutions. Subsequently it was The fiftieth anniversary ofthe Morris decided to integrate our efforts at the Arboretum was celebrated at an outdoor In consonance with the strategic plan, state, city and community levels under convocation: honorary degrees were conferred. "Choosing Penn's Future," the trustees James E. Shada, the University's repre- in June approved a set of development sentative in Harrisburg, and to establish by a program of news releases to media objectives for the next three years that a new position, Director of Federal across the commonwealth. focus on attracting the necessary funds Relations, to coordinate our interests in The University increasingly has been from private sources to strengthen the Washington. Following a nationwide reaching out for closer involvement with quality of undergraduate education while search, David J. Morse has been its community, its region, and its state. continuing fundraising for the other divi- appointed to this position. Mr. Morse Small businesses, local governments, sions of the University. A summary of has served as senior legislative aide to public schools and social agencies are these objectives appears elsewhere in Senator Robert Stafford for issues con- among those who benefit from advice this report. cerning higher education and cultural and research by faculty and graduate Many of Pennsylvania's graduate and affairs and was staff director for the students; it is imperative that the professional schools and resource cen- presidential task force on the arts and knowledge generated and stored in a ters are refining their five-year plans humanities. These two directors report university be communicated to agencies and fund-raising strategies to meet key to the senior vice president. of society. academic objectives. The Veterinary Late in July, final action was taken by A major impetus to this kind of School and the Morris Arboretum have the legislature and governor on the activity was provided by Governor already launched major fund-raising University's appropriation request for Thornburgh when he proposed the efforts that are expected to reach frui- FY 1983-84. Although state revenues establishment of a statewide Ben tion in the next several years. Others, did not allow for the increased amounts Franklin Partnership to stimulate devel- such as the Law School, are in the initial of assistance the University had opment of high-technology industries in stages of a major search for resources. requested, especially for financial aid the state. The University welcomed the The Medical School and Hospital are and the Veterinary School, nevertheless governor's initiative to create improved both planning significant capital improve- we were gratified to receive a 3.6 per economic opportunities in Pennsylvania ments, including renovation and con- cent increase over last year in total and it is playing a leading role in making struction of patient facilities and funding, the increase being fairly com- the Partnership concept a reality for the research laboratories, beginning with parable to that received by the state- benefit of all Pennsylvanians. To date, a pharmacology. The University Museum related universities. Penn's interests total of $2,350,000 has been received is actively seeking funds for the repair during the appropriations process were from the commonwealth for the work of of its roof and safety systems as well as supported by a network of alumni and the Partnership.

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The of City Philadelphia " . it is imperative that the knowledge generated and Last year the City of Philadelphia com- stored in a university be communicated to agencies of pleted the celebration of its 300th anniversary, and the University had a society." meaningful role in various Century IV activities. There are many indications that Philadelphia is on an upswing. It has been ranked as the tenth best investment out of thirty-three cities, the eighth pleasantest city to live in, and fifth in the big three service industries (finance, insurance, and real estate). According to Professor Ted Hershberg, in the course of its history the city has shown a cyclical tendency to rejuvenate itself. The time is evidently ripe for progress. In 1983 the new Bell Atlantic Corporation chose Philadelphia over Washington, Baltimore, and Pittsburgh for its corporate headquarters. Six weeks later, the $30.5 billion Cigna Cor- poration reached a similar decision, turning down 200 sites in the New York area that had been examined. Several new hotels have been opened, the site for a new convention center has been chosen and the mayor has announced plans for the renaissance of Market Street East. More than sixty organizations are housed under the umbrella of the The "Leadership. Education And Development" summer program at the Wharton School is designed to give selected high school seniors from minority groups an appreciation ottinance University City Science Center, which and commerce as a career borders us along Market Street. Research institutes at the Science Cen- ter deal with such diverse subjects as Philadelphia. This group, headed by The area designated by the Philadelphia energy management and economic Trustee Ralph Saul, includes the presi- Redevelopment Authority as "University development, criminal justice adminis- dents of local colleges, large corpora- City" is comprised of a vibrant mixture tration, substance abuse research, and tions, and foundations; it will focus its of educational, health, and scientific data/information research. efforts on the coordination and provision institutions, residential neighborhoods, A bit to the west, Route 202, within of educational, management and and small businesses. It was the vision easy access of the city, is a local devel- marketing services to the Philadelphia and initiative of Dr. Harnwell which, opment along the lines of the proto- School District. nearly twenty-five years ago, brought type-Route 128 in Boston. Because In the renaissance of the 1950's, the into creation the West Philadelphia Cor- the region spans many political bound- Greater Philadelphia Movement was poration with the mission of enhancing aries, it has gone almost unnoticed. Yet founded by local business and civic the quality of life for those who live and this center of high technology is in a leaders to promote the improvement work in this community. As a relatively position to draw on the expertise of and orderly growth of the metropolitan new worker and resident of University sophisticated institutions concentrated area along economic, industrial, social City, I have become directly involved in in the area. There is a natural tendency and cultural fronts. At that time, the promoting the efforts of the successor also for young talent to gravitate from chair of the four-man executive commit- organization-the West Philadelphia the universities to state-of-the-art, tee was held by a University of Penn- Partnership. Having established parity computer-based industries. sylvania trustee, and the late Gaylord between the major educational/scientific The University has been directly Harnwell was also an influential mem- institutions and the neighborhood orga- involved in the organization of a commit- ber. In recent years there have con- nizations, we are now proceeding, in tee to support the public schools in tinued to be many kinds of relationships this my first year as president of the between College Hall and City Hall and Partnership, to build upon the original corporate board rooms, despite the mission of concern for urban problems psychological barrier of the Schuylkill by placing a new emphasis on job and River. Graduates of the University have economic development in West taken up influential positions in govern- Philadelphia. ment and business and in the cultural life of the city.

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A Final Word In this kaleidoscope of University affairs during the past year, I hope one can discern the major thrust ofour collective efforts to maintain and enhance the mission that has been Penn's for many years. If I were tobeasked to assign a grade for the University year, the pluses would certainly outweigh the minuses by a wide margin. We had an impressive record of achievement in a single year. Most of all, in addition to those individual things that have been identified, I believe the spirit of the campus is more positive. We have many important challenges before us, and there are numberof serious problems yet to resolve. Even so, I feel increasingly good about the future. In closing this report I am reminded of the thought expressed by Jonathon Rhoads, our distinguished professor of surgery, when he completed a term as provost in the late 1950's. His percep - tive characterization of the University continues to apply to those of us who are his successors today: "Pennsylvania is a great university but fortunately a dissatisfied one. Its further development is bounded only by horizons and not by walls. It will be the sum or at least the resultant of the efforts of the individuals who compose it. They have in common the desire to develop a greater University here at Pennsylvania than this country has yet known. It will take intense and sus- tained effort, but I see nothing to prevent success, and within our time."

This condensation of the 36-page President's Report for 1983 contains all of the text and most of the photographs of the president's essay on the year's activity. The full report, including the audited annual report for FY 1983, is at the Office of the Secretary, 121 College Hall.