Offices and Programs

Offices within Educational Equity that assist current and future college students with issues around equity, respect, and belonging at Penn State and in higher education in general

Student Disability Resources

Coordinates reasonable accommodations for equal access and full participation; peer interactions and study space; connection with on- and off-campus resources; and promotes disability as an import aspect of diversity.

Office of Veterans Programs

Provides services to military-affiliated students and Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) benefits recipients.

Talent Search

Our counselors work with over 2,000 Pennsylvania middle and high school students a year to provide services, information, and guidance for their education after high school.

Upward Bound Programs

UBP staff work with students in many areas providing program opportunities for its participants to succeed in their precollege performance and ultimately in their higher education pursuits.

Office of Scholars Programs

he Office of Scholars Programs is committed to supporting all underrepresented and underserved students across Penn State, in addition to students in its five prestigious scholarship programs. These programs attract students with diverse perspectives, identities, and interests and share a broad goal of enhancing inclusion efforts at the university. Each scholarship program has distinct merit-based eligibility requirements and selection processes.

Senior Faculty Mentors

Offers guidance that helps facilitate the attainment of tenure, promotion, and advancement at each faculty career stage, particularly for tenure-track faculty members who belong to historically underrepresented groups of faculty members such as those highlighted by the President’s Commissions for Equity.

Faculty Pathway

A primary point of contact for support, professional development, and career advancement for new and established tenure-track and tenured faculty who identify as members of historically underrepresented groups such as those highlighted by the President’s Commissions for Equity.

President's Commissions for Equity

Provides the President with recommendations germane to issues of LGBTQ, racially or ethnically diverse, and women-identified persons at Penn State

Equal Opportunity Planning Committee

Provides seed grant funding to Penn State units for developing and implementing programs and activities intended to advance the equity, respect, and belonging goal of the University.

July 16, 2024

Campus Access and Success Grant

The Office of the Vice Provost for Educational Equity Campus Access and Success Grant began in 2007 when Penn State created an alternative program to the state-funded Pennsylvania Higher Education Equal Opportunity Act of 1971 to better serve Penn State students.

January 13, 2025