Welcome to Brazen Careerist!

This group is dedicated to Penn alumni and will be used for networking and career enhancement. Penn is a four year undergraduate university and graduate school located in Philadelphia, PA.

Penn traces its origins to 1740 when a trust was formed to establish the Charity School of Philadelphia. Later, in 1749, Benjamin Franklin presented his vision for a new type of learning institution, that unlike other American Colonial colleges, would not focus on education for the clergy, but would instead prepare students for lives of business and public service. The proposed program of study would become the nation's first modern liberal arts curriculum. When, in 1750, Franklin and the first Trustees purchased Penn's first campus, they also assumed responsibility for the Charity School (though it had never opened, the Trust was still alive and well). Both the Academy and the Charity School opened in 1751.

More than 250 years later, Penn continues to blaze trails in education.