Philadelphia Relocation Update
Moving the Institute to the “Metropolis of the American Founding”
Philadelphia, Penna. - Immediately after the commissioning of our final class in Colorado, the Institute began the bittersweet process of scaling back our offices here in Colorado and opening new offices, educational and residential facilities in Philadelphia in preparation for the next class - the Institute's first in the “Metropolis of the American founding.”
Search for a permanent home for the Institute continues even as the funding campaign begins for a capital purchase. In the meantime, the Institute will be leasing facilities (formerly the international headquarters of another non-profit organization) in Bala-Cynwyd, a close-in suburb of Philadelphia.
This leased campus hosts a grand old early twentieth-century “Victorian Shingle” style manor house with supporting buildings on a three and one-half acre campus. The surrounding neighborhood sports many “third places” for students and a light rail station with a brief commute to the city core. The very beautiful neighborhood is surrounded by seven colleges, universities and seminaries including: Bryn Mawr, Cabrini, Haverford, Harcum, Rosemont, Valley Forge Military, Villanova, St. Charles, St. Joseph’s, Eastern, Philadelphia and Penn. “The Bala-Cynwyd campus is a wonderful provision. We could not have asked for a better location to begin our engagement with Philadelphia,” remarked President Alan Crippen.
The Institute will have offices in operation on the Bala-Cynwyd campus by mid-February. Fellows begin their residencies there with the fall term on August 29, 2011. The Insitute will maintain its Colorado contact information for the next several months and its website will provide the most current contact information during the organizational relocation to Philadelphia.
