The Career Studies program at Penn State Harrisburg offers individuals with intellectual disabilities, age 18 to 25, the opportunity to receive an inclusive post-secondary education. Peer mentors are the “heart” of the program, according to Sandy McBride, Career Studies program coordinator.
For more than three decades, Penn State Harrisburg’s Multicultural Academic Excellence Program, better known as MAEP, has served as a place for students to expand their horizons, meet new people, learn about academic or professional topics, and simply be themselves without judgment.
Penn State Harrisburg and PenOwl Productions Theatre Company will celebrate 25 years of the MLK Campus Play Series with “The Dream on Stage,” on Saturday, Jan. 21, in the Mukund S. Kulkarni Theatre on campus. The event is free and open to the public.
Penn State Harrisburg will hold its inaugural Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Banquet Sunday, Jan. 15, at the Hershey Lodge in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
Penn State Harrisburg community members are helping to instill a love of reading in children and celebrate diversity through participation in Reading 365, an initiative of the Harrisburg-based American Literacy Corporation.
Students from Penn State Harrisburg recently attended the Grace Hopper Celebration, billed as the world’s largest gathering of women and non-binary individuals in technology, where they were able to network with technology leaders and, in one student’s case, land a summer internship.
The Center for Holocaust and Jewish Studies at Penn State Harrisburg will welcome Holocaust survivor Peter Stern for a virtual presentation of his story on Thursday, Dec. 1. The event is co-sponsored by the Holocaust Awareness Museum and Education Center in Philadelphia.
Penn State Harrisburg’s Student Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Office of Student Affairs will host a Multicultural Graduation Celebration at 1 p.m. Friday, Dec. 16, in the Capital Union Building events room. The event is intended to celebrate the accomplishments of historically underserved and underrepresented students.
Penn State Harrisburg students Kiet Le and Hannah Odom have been named the college’s first Noyce Scholars through a new program that aims to address the critical need for secondary mathematics teachers in high-need school districts.
The Center for Holocaust and Jewish Studies at Penn State Harrisburg will welcome Dina Danon, associate professor of Judaic studies and history at Binghamton University, for a virtual lecture at noon on Tuesday, Nov. 1. Her discussion will focus on the "Sephardic Jews of Ottoman Turkey."
