A Solution? How Can Higher Educational and Other Anchor Institutions Work with High Schools to Advance Employment and College and Career Readiness for Philadelphia Youth? Part One.

Join us for the second of a five-session seminar on the role of higher educational and other anchor institutions in promoting college and career readiness of high school students in Philadelphia. This session features: Carol de Fries, Vice President of Workforce & Economic Innovation, and Dave Thomas, Dean of the Division of Access and Community Engagement at the Community College of Philadelphia; Andrew Lamas, Professor of Urban Studies at the University of Pennsylvania; Theresa Simmonds, Coordinator of Post-Secondary Success Programs at The Netter Center; and Nyeema Watson, Assistant Chancellor for Civic Engagement at Rutgers University – Camden.

This session is facilitated by Laura Perna, Professor at Penn GSE and Executive Director of Penn AHEAD.

Additional sessions will take place the following Fridays from 12:00pm - 2:00pm: March 18, April 15 and May 6. Lunch is provided. To RSVP please email Janee Franklin at janeef@upenn.edu.

To view the presentations from the first session, please click below:

• Theresa Simmonds, Coordinator of Post-Secondary Success Programs at The Netter Center
• Carol de Fries, Vice President of Workforce & Economic Innovation and Dave Thomas, Dean of the Division of Access and Community Engagement at CCP
• Nyeema Watson, Assistant Chancellor for Civic Engagement at Rutgers University-Camden