Conferences, Workshops, and Institutes Faculty are encouraged to disseminate research through conferences, institutes, workshops, seminars, symposia, and short courses. Colleges are responsible for program content and for instructional staff. Staff from the Outreach Office of Program Development, Conferences and Institutes, and Continuing Education Offices at all Penn State locations support development and delivery of these programs. Approval for the offering of noncredit programs is provided by the Coordinating Council for Outreach and Cooperative Extension. Programs are offered at all Penn State locations and centers, Cooperative Extension sites in all sixty-seven counties, and at national and international sites.
Professional planners assist faculty in offering conferences, workshops, and institutes.
Many conferences and workshops are offered at the Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, which is located in the Research Park to the east of the University Park campus. In 1998, Penn State took that tradition into the twenty-first century by creating a World Campus that uses technology to create global learning communities around some of the University's best and most respected academic programs. The Department of Distance Education seeks to ensure access to Penn State's academic resources and to extend the University's outreach programs nationally and internationally. Penn State Public Broadcasting Penn State Public Broadcasting is a media production and distribution organization that provides daily educational, cultural, and entertainment programming to citizens of the Commonwealth. Penn State Public Broadcasting is supported in part by the University, but largely through memberships, fund-raising, and development.