Penn State students Kimisse King and Donna Butler are the 2019 Outstanding Adult Student Award recipients. Both of their stories share a common thread: mastering a goal to give back by sharing their experiences to lift others up.
Penn State World Campus has named alumna Adrienne Darrah as its new director of alumni relations. In her role, she also will oversee the Penn State World Campus Alumni Society.
Students from Penn State New Kensington and four other campuses united to honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the annual MLK Jr. Day of Service on Jan. 21.
More than 50 Penn State students from five campuses took their day off from classes to make it a "day on" for the annual MLK Jr. Day of Service on Jan. 21. The 2019 Penn State New Kensington-hosted event featured volunteerism at six organizations in the Alle-Kiski Valley.
World Campus students are joining other Penn State students to take part in service projects on the University Park and New Kensington campuses on Monday, and are also volunteering at a Habitat for Humanity ReStores in San Diego and Silver Spring, Maryland.
More than 1,000 Penn State graduate students have enrolled in Penn State’s free five-week Graduate Student Online Teaching Certificate program since it was first offered in 2015. Many are finding it is making them better teachers –- on- and off-line.
Richard and Claudia Fischer have donated $1 million to the University to create the Richard and Claudia Fischer Open Doors Scholarship in Penn State World Campus. Through the Open Doors Scholarship Matching Program, the University will provide a permanent 2:1 matching contribution of $2 million.
The Penn State World Campus chapter of the Society for Human Resource Management has been awarded the Merit Award for excellence and achievement during the 2017-2018 academic year.
Penn State students at any campus can enhance their success and academic experience through the prior learning assessment process by earning credits for prior knowledge and experiences.
A pilot program called "Smart Track to Success" hopes to help Penn State World Campus students afford their first year of college and provide additional resources to succeed at earning their degrees. The Charles E. and Carol E. Snyder Penn State World Campus Alumni Society Open Doors Scholarship began as a $30,000 gift from two alumni. Penn State matched their gift and over the course of five years, it will become a $90,000 scholarship endowment.
Penn State Outreach and Online Education will honor three people for their work and dedication to the University and the community. Patty Satalia, Sheila Gallucci-Davis and Jose Morales will receive awards at the Penn State OOE Appreciation Dinner beginning at 6:30 p.m. on Oct. 19, in the Nittany Lion Inn on the University Park campus.
Baizhou Chen, a certified public account with extensive professional and teaching experience, will join the Penn State Beaver faculty as an instructor in accounting this fall.
Penn State Outreach and Online Education will hold an event to raise funds for the Penn State World Campus Veterans Education and Advancement Fund from 6 to 8 p.m. April 30 at the Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center.
In August 2014, Fernando Ribeiro and his family traveled 5,000 miles from their home in Sao Paulo, Brazil, to State College, Pennsylvania, to celebrate his graduation with a bachelor’s degree in psychology. Ribeiro is among the hundreds of people who live across the globe who have studied online through Penn State World Campus, which offers more than 130 degrees and certificates in a wide variety of subjects. For some, they wanted a U.S. education, which is valued in their country, without leaving home. Others were drawn by the University’s long-standing reputation as a leader in distance and online education.
Conrad Tucker, whose work with virtual and augmented realities has been gaining national publicity, was recently named a recipient of the 2016 IBM Faculty Award.
