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Justin Bowen, secretary of the World Campus Sustainability Club, speaks at Penn State's 2018 World Campus Leadership Conference

World Campus Sustainability Club hits second anniversary

11/28/18

Penn State World Campus not only offers a world-class education, it offers a world-class student life experience, too. This December, the World Campus Sustainability Club is celebrating its second anniversary providing online students an opportunity to network and to partner with each other as they brainstorm sustainability projects they can implement in their own communities. Club members showcased their efforts at the first World Campus Leadership Conference earlier this fall.

Haley Sankey

Sankey first online educator named Faculty Academy Fellow

8/9/18

Haley Sankey has always enjoyed finding creative ways to reach out to her adult learners. Now she’s hoping to use that creativity to improve learning on campus and beyond. Sankey, an assistant teaching professor at the John A. Dutton e-Education Institute, recently became the first Penn State World Campus faculty member selected as a fellow in the Faculty Academy for Engaged Scholarship.

Tip Stama at dairy farm

College marshal starts career before graduation with help from online degree

8/8/16

Choosing to finish a degree through Penn State World Campus was easy for Tip Stama, but he still faced hurdles during his educational journey. In August, after taking a hiatus from his studies, Stama will graduate with a 4.0 grade-point average and a B.A. in energy and sustainability policy (ESP), an online College of Earth and Mineral Sciences program. He will represent his graduating class as college marshal and is the second ESP graduate selected for this honor. Unlike most students who start working full-time after graduating, Stama began his career as an environmental compliance specialist in May.

Mike Reichart at wetland refuge

EMS student among first in world to earn society’s sustainability certification

2/3/16

Mike Reichart is passionate about sustainability, and he is part of the first cohort of individuals worldwide to receive professional sustainability certification through the International Society of Sustainability Professionals. A student in Penn State’s Energy and Sustainability Policy online degree program, Reichart received the ISSP’s Sustainability Professional Certification Jan. 7.

student standing in front of white house in the distant background

Student elevates wind energy career through online degree program

12/8/15

When Abby Watson first enrolled in Penn State’s Energy and Sustainability Policy program, she didn’t realize she would advance her career before completing her degree. Through one course assignment, Watson was able to show her company — Gamesa, a wind industry leader that manufactures wind turbines and maintains wind farms in more than 50 countries — that she was qualified for a newly created position directly related to her studies.