STATE COLLEGE — Penn State will use a $1.5 million federal grant to create workforce education and retaining programs targeting Southwestern Pennsylvania, the university announced Wednesday.
The university’s New Kensington campus, located in Upper Burrell, and its Digital Foundry, under construction in downtown New Kensington, will lead the project.
It will be known as “Growing and Reskilling Our Workforce in Pennsylvania,” or GROW PA, according to our news partners at Trib Live.
The project is being funded through a third round of Workforce Opportunity for Rural Communities Initiative grants from the federal Employment and Training Administration in partnership with the Appalachian Regional Commission and Delta Regional Authority.
“With the rapid and continuing advancements in how technology and innovation are affecting our workplaces, this grant goes a long way in helping the Digital Foundry prepare today’s and tomorrow’s workers from our area so that they are ready to take on those jobs,” Mayor Tom Guzzo said. “The role that the Digital Foundry has taken on is so vitally important. And I’m thrilled and excited that this is happening in our city.”
Funded entirely by the grant, GROW PA will address site, work and operation readiness, according to the university.
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