PENNSYLVANIA'S STATE SYSTEM OF HIGHER

To forge partnerships and advance university excellence, the foundation identifies and acquires resources to support system-wide initiatives and multi-campus initiatives. Passhe foundation secured funds and created employer partnerships to kick-start an initiative to embed real world work experiences into the academic curriculum through a multi-university pilot program involving five of its universities and which will launch across the state system's 10 universities and 14 campuses in the 2027-28 academic year. During the 2024-25 year, the foundation also secured philanthropic support to accelerate course and program sharing initiatives and to convene state system and university leadership to reimagine its university-based and system-wide strategies for building pennsylvania's educator training pipeline. This summit, occurring in fall 2025, will facilitate regional collaboration and equip state system universities to effectively and efficiently prepare the teacher corps pennsylvania needs to grow and thrive.