Our centers and institutes provide a variety of educational services to children, families, schools, human service agencies, professionals, and more.
Educational services range from English education, resources for gifted students, and sports camps to training for police and emergency responders.
See a list of these centers and institutes:
- Administration and Leadership Studies Research and Training Center
- This is an applied interdisciplinary center that supports sponsored research, program evaluation, policy analysis, technology transfer, and training.
- Intercollegiate Athletic Institute for Sports Camps
- This institute helps to organize sports camps for students and to train camp counselors, coaches, and others.
- Center for Career and Technical Personnel Preparation
- The center helps to prepare, update, and upgrade career and technical educators.
- Child Study Center
- The Child Study Center provides assessment and short-term treatment of learning or behavioral problems, consultation to parents and schools, identification of disability or giftedness, and other services.
- Center for Counselor Training and Services
- This center provides counseling professionals with access to nationally known experts, training, and services.
- Criminal Justice Training Center
- The Criminal Justice Training Center offers noncredit training programs for police recruits and law enforcement personnel.
- Center for Media Production and Research
- The Center for Media Production and Research is dedicated to the creation of all types of media productions to meet university and community needs.
- First Commonwealth Center for Economic Education
- This center works to upgrade the quality of economic education.
- Center for Rural Gifted Education
- Training, referral, and resources are the focus of this center, which serves those interested in education of the gifted.
- Highway Safety Center
- This center works to solve problems relating to highway safety. It provides driver education and improvement programs and training for emergency responders.
- Institute for Information Assurance
- This institute facilitates faculty/student interactions in research, presentations, publications, and workshops to promote the need to ensure security and integrity of information.
- Literacy Center
- The Literacy Center provides assessment and instruction for children and adolescents needing assistance with reading and writing.
- Mid-Atlantic Addiction Research and Training Institute (MARTI)
- MARTI is a consortium of academic and professional experts in the fields of alcohol abuse treatment, domestic violence intervention, and related mental health issues.
- Institute for Mine Mapping, Archival Procedures, and Safety
- This institute offers knowledge and expertise in archiving, digitally recording, and geographically referencing historical coal mine maps.
- Software Development Center
- This center develops software, builds software systems, and works to improve the software development expertise of the region.
- Center for Statistics Education in Pennsylvania
- This center brings quantitative literacy and the hands-on use of mathematics’ manipulatives to K–12 teachers.
- Center for Videoconferencing
- This center develops innovative strategies for utilizing video and blended technologies in support of instruction and communication to distant sites.
