About World Readiness

Through our programs, we seek to cultivate World Readiness, which is a more expansive idea than just “work-readiness”. World Readiness means being able to live authentically in diverse communities and work inclusively, interculturally, and ethically with people across differences, and in global contexts. This entails knowing how to advocate for oneself and others in professional and personal contexts so that we can imagine and create a better world for all of us. This requires collaboration among students from across disciplines, staff, and faculty to think about what that means for our college, our university, and our lives and futures outside of Purdue.

We also look to match our advocacy programming with efforts geared towards solidarity building. It is crucial, we believe, that those from underrepresented, underserved, and marginalized groups create networks of support and solidarity with each other as a way to find a collective voice to articulate their experience and affect change. We envisage the John Martinson Honors College as a vibrant node in the ecology of the university and the cities of Lafayette and West Lafayette.

Through our programs and events, we seek to encourage students, faculty, and staff to engage with the social and political events around us; to understand them in an environment that is critical without being judgmental, to create a culture of creative collaboration, where speaking up and out for issues of equality and social justice is seen as the way forward and extends to life beyond the university.