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Amy Gutmann: Gold Medal for Distinguished Achievement

caption: Amy GutmannPenn President Amy Gutmann will receive The Pennsylvania Society’s coveted Gold Medal for Distinguished Achievement this December.

“The Council of the Pennsylvania Society unanimously selected President Gutmann for her remarkable leadership in Pennsylvania, and her distinguished representation of Pennsylvania’s ingenuity to the world,” Robert Ciaruffoli, Jr., the Society President, announced.

President Gutmann will receive the award at the Society’s 120th annual dinner in New York City. She has been Penn’s President since 2004. Penn’s academic, technology, healthcare and community enterprises all have grown under her stewardship, making the university Pennsylvania’s third-largest private employer, and the largest private employer in Philadelphia

President Gutmann has also focused her presidency on expanding access to the transformative powers of a Penn education. A first-generation, low-income college student herself, she has more than doubled the number of students from low-income, middle-income, and first-generation families attending Penn. She also has continued her personal scholarship while leading Penn’s vast enterprise; her 17th book is scheduled to be published this August.

President Gutmann will be the 110th recipient of the Gold Medal. The Society will donate $50,000 to a Pennsylvania charity of her choice. The Society is a nonprofit, nonpartisan charitable organization that traces its roots to the 19th century.

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