“If you look at the current priorities of our state, we have something to offer in virtually every case. We have something important to offer to technological innovation, to the development of a world class workforce, to health and human services, and to competitiveness in the global marketplace. We have expertise in key areas of industry for the future of Pennsylvania including advanced materials, advanced manufacturing, biomedical products, agribusiness, information technologies, advanced business services, environmental technologies, and tourism and hospitality. We have ample opportunity to deploy our many resources in ways that help the people and communities of this state.”

• One in every two households in Pennsylvania has a person participating in Penn State programs (more than five million people annually).
  
  
• Penn State outreach programs are offered in all sixty-seven counties in Pennsylvania, at twenty-four campus locations, through eight technology centers, and via the Internet-based World Campus.
  
  
• Penn State has ninety-nine satellite downlink sites in Pennsylvania.
  
  
• Penn State Public Broadcasting reaches 500,000 viewers annually through public television and another 430,000 listeners through its public radio station.
  
  
• Penn State generates 20,000 enrollments annually through Distance Education.
  
  
• More than 187,000 people participate in Continuing Education programs, courses, conferences, and seminars.
  
  
• Cooperative Extension reaches two million citizens in the Commonwealth each year.
  
  
• Participants in Penn State outreach programs hail from all fifty states and eighty countries.
  
  
• Programs are delivered on campus, in churches, government offices, schools, farms, hospitals and businesses, by television, on-site, via the Internet, through print, audio, and video.
  
  
• More than 1,500 faculty from all Penn State locations, representing all colleges, are engaged in applying their scholarship to outreach initiatives. A total of 800 outreach staff produce and deliver outreach programming across Pennsylvania.
  
  
• More than 50,000 Pennsylvanians serve as outreach volunteers for Master Gardener programs, 4-H leadership, and other educational programming.
  
  
• Technology Transfer collaborated on 2,900 projects with 1,800 companies, resulting in 750 jobs created or saved In Pennsylvania last year.
  
  
• Penn State’s youth programs drew more than 220,000 enrollments, representing 12 percent of Pennsylvania Youth ages 6-17.
  
  
• Penn State Outreach and Cooperative Extension constitutes the largest unified outreach effort in American higher education.
  
  (Source: The Plan for Strengthening Outreach and Cooperative Extension, 2nd Overview and update, June 1999)