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 and work 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 seek to encourage students, faculty, and staff to build a culture of creative collaboration. We also look to match our programming with efforts geared toward community building. 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.