Penn State Diversity Case Study

As Pennsylvania's only land-grant university, Penn State has a broad mission of teaching, research, and public service. In 1855, the Commonwealth chartered it as one of the nation's first colleges of agricultural science, with a goal to apply scientific principles to farming. A series of undergraduate branch campuses were established in the1930s primarily to meet the needs of students who were location-bound during the Great Depression. Those campuses were predecessors of today's system of 24 Penn State campuses located throughout the Commonwealth. Penn State began offering systematic advanced-degree work in 1922 with the formation of the Graduate School. A college of medicine and teaching hospital were established in 1967, In 2000, Penn State and the Dickinson School of Law merged. That same year Penn State's online World Campus graduated its first students in 2000 and now …show more content…
This mission encompasses leadership for the University-wide strategic planning for diversity and inclusion, student academic success services and Federal TRIO Programs for underrepresented students, and support of educational access for targeted groups of low-income, potential first-generation college students both at Penn State and at sites throughout the state, and serving as a catalyst and advocate for Penn State’s diversity and inclusion initiatives by providing University-wide leadership to increase their capacity for diversity. (About. (n.d.). Retrieved June 05, 2017, from http://equity.psu.edu/about) Currently Penn State reports 31.4% of students are minority/other vs. 68.5% who identify as white. (Admission and University Statistics. (n.d.). Retrieved June 05, 2017, from