Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price recently announced that Michael X. Delli Carpini, the Walter H. Annenberg Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication, has agreed to an extension of his term as dean until June 30, 2018.

“Michael has been an energetic, wise and widely admired leader since his appointment as dean in 2003,” Gutmann says. “Our recent consultations across the Annenberg School and the University have reaffirmed for us the high esteem in which he is universally held. We are confident that he will continue to strengthen Annenberg’s reputation as the nation’s preeminent school for the study of communication during this three-year extension of his second term.”

During Delli Carpini’s time as dean, Annenberg’s graduate students have emerged as leaders in academic, industry, and public sector positions around the world.