WHAT: The 2003 Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Award will be presented to the University of Pennsylvania for its innovative video policing program as well as its campus and community patrols.

WHO: Howard and Connie Clery present this annual award in the form of a brass mantle clock to schools and individuals who have helped to make college and university students safer, in memory of their daughter Jeanne Ann.

Speakers will include U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, Penn President Judith Rodin and Maureen Rush, Penn Vice President for Public Safety.

WHEN:  3 p.m., Friday, Sept. 5, 2003

WHERE: Roll Call Room, University of Pennsylvania Public Safety Building, 4040 Chestnut St., Philadelphia

Penn is one of two institutions of higher education in the country selected to receive the Clery Award this year. The University of Bridgeport  (Conn.) and Kate Dieringer , a Georgetown University student, have also been honored.

Established in 1994, the award is a memorial to Jeanne Ann Clery, who was murdered in her Lehigh University dorm room in 1986 by a fellow student who was unknown to her.

The Clery family founded Security On Campus Inc. in 1987 to educate students, parents and campus communities about crime; to assist victims and families; to foster campus security improvements; and to provide programs to reduce alcohol and drug abuse.

PHOTO OPPORTUNITY:  The award presentation at 3:30 p.m.

Tours of the PennComm campus monitoring center with the Clery family and an enactment of the video policing capabilities will be held after the ceremony.