With students arriving on Penn’s campus this week to move into the College Houses, Penn Today has compiled links to resources and statistics about the Move-In experience.
Students are arriving on Penn’s campus this week to start the 2024-25 academic year. Move-In officially begins Monday with international, transfer, exchange, and first-generation students. On Tuesday and Wednesday the Class of 2028 first-years come aboard. Returning students will arrive Friday through Sunday. Staff at the University’s undergraduate College Houses have been working for months to prepare.
2,409
First-year students expected at Move-In
3,486
Returning undergraduates moving into College Houses
13
Number of undergraduate College Houses
5
First-year College Houses
92
Nations represented in the Class of 2028
205
New Student Orientation student volunteers
266
Events listed on New Student Orientation calendar
1,100
Move-In carts
49
Student Move-In Coordinators
55
Balloon displays
6,500
Welcome kits
Information and assistance
Drop by the Campus Express Center in Bodek Lounge and the New Student Orientation Resource Fair in the Hall of Flags and the Reading Room of Houston Hall at 3417 Spruce St. from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Griffin Pitt, right, works with two other student researchers to test the conductivity, total dissolved solids, salinity, and temperature of water below a sand dam in Kenya.
Griffin Pitt’s upbringing made her passionate about water access and pollution, and Penn has given her the opportunity to explore these issues back home in North Carolina and abroad.
Helping robots work together to explore the Moon and Mars
Penn Engineers, NASA, and five other universities tested robotic systems designed to help unmanned explorers cooperate in the dunes of White Sands, New Mexico, paving the way for Moon and Mars exploration.
From framework to actions: Provost John L. Jackson Jr. talks Penn Forward
In a Q&A, Provost John L. Jackson Jr. explains the relationship between the strategic framework In Principle and Practice and Penn Forward—a new University-wide process and action plan that will advance Penn forward for the next decade and beyond.
