Campus Community

With nearly 26,000 students and 18,000 faculty and staff (before you include the Health System), the University of Pennsylvania is a vast community – many of whom are or will be the first in their families to receive a bachelors’ degree and beyond.

• Penn First Plus Affiliates and Ambassadors
• Student Organizations
• Campus Offices
• Alumni Engagement and Community

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Penn First Plus Ambassadors

P1P Ambassador Training was created to further enhance faculty and staff knowledge and skills on topics that have direct impact on first-generation and/or lower-income students’ college transition, academic success, and sense of belonging on campus. The faculty and staff listed below have completed this four-hour experience and are open to having discussions about and supporting you through the experience of being the first person in your family to pursue a college degree and/or be from a lower-income background.

[List forthcoming.]

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Student Organizations

• Penn First
  Organization for students who are first-generation and/or from lower-income backgrounds, providing social, academic, and professional development events.
• FGLIQ
  Organization for queer students who are first-generation and/or from lower-income backgrounds.
• FLITE (FGLI in Tech and Engineering)
  Promotes community and access for first-generation and/or lower-income student interested in technology and engineering.
• FGLI Dean’s Advisory Board at the College
  Advises the Undergraduate Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences on matters affecting FGLI students.
• Wharton FGLI
  Promotes community for first generation and/or lower income students in the Wharton school through acknowledgement, visibility, advocacy, and connection
• Seven|Eight
  Organization for students who are both queer and APIA (Asian Pacific Islander American).
• The Collective Success Network
  Student organization promoting professional and career development opportunities for the first-generation and/or lower-income community.
• Questbridge Scholars
  The on-campus community for students who arrived at Penn through the Questbridge Match program.
• FGLI International
  Organization for international students who are first-generation and/or from lower-income backgrounds. The link is directly to their GroupMe, which is being used for all communications.

• Penn Common Cents
  Penn’s first undergrad personal finance club seeking to mend the financial literacy knowledge gap seen across the U.S. We are a national organization headquartered at Penn with a branch at NYU holding innovative events that make personal finance interesting and inclusive for all.

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Campus Offices

• PennKIPP
  Provides supplemental academic advising and programming for students who enrolled at Penn from a KIPP charter school.
• La Casa Latina
  Penn’s community center for Latinx students.
• Makuu Black Cultural Center
  Penn’s community center for Black students.
• Pan-Asian American Community House
  Penn’s community center for South Asian, East Asian, Southeast Asian, and Pacific Islander students.
• LGBT Center
  Penn’s community center for students who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans*, and/or queer, etc.
• Penn Women’s Center
  Penn’s community center promoting gender justice.
• Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program
  A post-matriculation scholarship and mentorship program for students in the humanities and social sciences. An application is required,
• Civic House
  Penn’s center for civic engagement and social justice education.
• Platt Student Performing Arts House
  Penn’s center for student-led performing arts productions.
• Fraternity and Sorority Life
  Advises Greek Letter Organizations at Penn.
• Student Affairs
  Provides centralized advising and support for all campus-wide student organizations.
• SEAS Student Organizations
  Student organizations in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
• School of Nursing Student Organizations
  Student organizations in the School of Nursing.
• Wharton Student Organizations
  Student organizations in the Wharton School of Business.
• Kelly Writers House
  Community house for students with deep interest in their writing craft.
• International Students and Scholar Services
  In addition to immigration support for international students, also provides community and leadership development programming.
• Office of the Chaplain
  Provides space and community for religious and spiritual observance while also advising a number of faith-based student organizations.

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Alumni Engagement and Community

• Penn First Plus Alumni Relations
  Penn First Plus Alumni relations coordinates programming and networking opportunities for Penn graduates who were among the first in their families to attend college, and/or had limited resources as undergraduate or graduate students.

• Penn FLASH
  Penn FLASH is a networking program for current first-generation and/or lower-income students to connect with alumni for purposes of networking and advice on their academic and/or professional pathways.