Educational opportunities have been expanded for students with disabilities at Penn State Harrisburg. An anonymous Penn State Harrisburg graduate has joined with the Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation to create the college’s first scholarship for students with disabilities. The Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation Endowed Trustee Scholarship at Penn State Harrisburg will assist students with financial need and will mean greater access to higher education for undergraduates.
During the 2011-12 academic year, 27 Penn State Harrisburg students were inducted in the Kappa Delta Pi International Honor Society. Dr. Catherine Surra, director of the School of Behavioral Sciences and Education, and Dr. Patricia Ahrens, assistant professor of education, also were inducted into Penn State Harrisburg’s Sigma Alpha Chapter.
Forty-five students from Penn State Harrisburg’s School of Business Administration recently were inducted in Beta Gamma Sigma, an international honors society that recognizes students in the top 10 percent of baccalaureate and top 20 percent of graduate programs at schools accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International.
Patricia Kaley has been appointed college registrar at Penn State Harrisburg.
Kaley’s previous experience includes service in the Lebanon Valley College Registrar’s Office, where she held the positions of assistant to the registrar, recorder, assistant registrar, associate registrar, and registrar. She also worked as a consultant for several other colleges and universities. Kaley holds a bachelor’s degree from Lebanon Valley College.
Autumn Proctor, an elementary education major at Penn State Harrisburg who graduated May 5, recently received the University’s Rose Cologne Keystone Citizen Award. Proctor, of East Berlin, was honored at the annual Student Leadership and Service Awards Ceremony on April 22 at University Park.
Students admitted into Penn State’s Schreyer Honors College may now complete all four years of their undergraduate studies and graduate with honors at Penn State Harrisburg.
Until now, Schreyer Honors College students could enroll at Penn State Harrisburg only for their first two years before transitioning to University Park or other campus locations to complete degree requirements to graduate with honors as a Schreyer Scholar.
Penn State Harrisburg’s men’s tennis team won its second straight North Atlantic Conference (NAC) championship match on Saturday, May 5, earning the league’s first-ever automatic NCAA tournament bid. The Lions, winners of the league’s West Division, defeated East Division champions Colby Sawyer 6-3 to win the conference crown and secure the tennis program’s first NCAA tournament berth.
Penn State Harrisburg will hold a Doctoral Programs Information Night on Tuesday, May 15 at 6:00 p.m.
Held in the college library, the session will provide information on the college’s D.Ed. in Adult Education, the Ph.D. in Public Administration, and the Ph.D. in American Studies.
Those attending will have an opportunity to speak with faculty and students in the three programs.
Last year, Penn State Harrisburg’s golf squad became the first team in school history to earn an NCAA Division III championship tournament berth when it won the North Eastern Athletic Conference (NEAC) championship. On April 21 and 22, the Lions shot a combined two-day total of 650 at the NEAC tournament in Pennsauken, N.J., to win the league title again and earn its second straight NCAA tournament bid.
