Readiness Institute at Penn State
Higher EducationOverview
At the Readiness Institute (a program within Penn State Outreach), we are partnering with educators, industry leaders, and community leaders to build year-round experiential activities that prepare learners for future careers and civic contribution. We strive to: - Educate the whole person so learners have opportunities to explore their understanding of themselves through social and emotional development. - Recruit and empower diverse educators to teach in diverse settings, trusting them to discover the most effective ways to help learners succeed. - Create complementary expertise and learning to address the skewed and arbitrary relationship between education, industry, and the larger community. The goal is to become nimbler and more collaborative to establish a more complete learning and career pathway for the region’s young adults. - Partner with employers to protect the dignity of workers and reformulate the employer-employee relationship in ways that celebrate human ingenuity while addressing new forces facing the global economy. - Redefine the role of the learner in a way that prioritizes rigor and relevance through project-based and real-world experiences. - Design community-based learning so the valued jobs of the future are available and attainable, empowering Pittsburghers to carve out their own pathways to career success. - Reimagine civic education and participation by rebuilding faith in our shared humanity and plotting the course for a more prosperous and harmonious collective future.