PennDesign Commencement

 

PennDesign Commencement Ceremony, which follows the University of Pennsylvania’s 259th Commencement Ceremony, specifically recognizes the achievements of newly graduated masters of architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, fine arts, and historic preservation. This year's featured keynote speaker is Mayor Michael Nutter.

 

Michael A. Nutter W'79 shook up Philadelphia politics when he rose from obscurity to win the 2007 mayoral election in an historic landslide. Born in Philadelphia and educated at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, Michael Nutter has been committed to public service since his youth in West Philadelphia. He served almost 15 years on the Philadelphia City Council, earning the reputation of a reformer, before his election as Mayor of Philadelphia.

 

Since taking office in January 2008 and serving two terms as Mayor of his hometown, Michael A. Nutter has set an aggressive agenda for America’s fifth largest city – devising the City’s innovative school reform strategy, vowing to strengthen community policing through Philly Rising, a unique partnership between vulnerable neighborhoods and the City, and continuing to implement the nationally recognized GreenWorks Philadelphia initiative that is helping to make the City of Philadelphia become the greenest city in America.

 

Read more: http://www.phila.gov/mayor/bio.html