Outreach Priorities (2025–2030)
Supporting purpose, agility, and opportunity on the road to transformational success.
Grow Penn State’s collective impact by cultivating a more unified outreach across University and Commonwealth communities to support the needs of Pennsylvanians.
Presidential goal alignment: increase land-grant impact
Focus Areas:
- Establish shared metrics for reporting on impact
- Initiate and grow the Keystone Collective Impact model
- Enhance and expand partnerships within and beyond Penn State
Enhance student success by fostering experiential learning through programming, opportunities, and partnerships.
Presidential goal alignment: enhance student success
Focus Areas:
- Understand current efforts regarding experiential learning for student (establish baseline of current efforts)
- Develop and adopt criteria to assess how students are benefiting from experiential learning
- Pursue partnerships to further enhance student success
Strive toward a self-sustaining financial model through innovative revenue generation, internal fiscal responsibility, and external partnerships and sponsorships.
Presidential goal alignment: transform internal operations
Focus Areas:
- Increase government and foundation grant applications
- Increase corporate and industry sponsorships
- Grow private philanthropy
- Develop new revenue generating opportunities
Our Mission
Seeking to amplify our land-grant mission, Outreach connects communities to Penn State to co-create meaningful impact across the Commonwealth.
We strive to carry out our mission through:
- in-person, on-air, and online programming for Pennsylvanians of all ages
- experiential learning opportunities to support Penn State student success
- services, resources, and tools to build capacity for the University
- public impact research driven by and in collaboration with local communities
Our Vision
Penn State Outreach will engage and empower communities and individuals within the Commonwealth and beyond to become resilient, healthy, sustainable, and innovative.