Penny Carlson, assistant vice president and executive director for academic services and assessment, provides central University leadership for the PaSSS program.
In an era of remote teaching and learning, PaSSS program leaders have translated the robust, multi-faceted experience into a format which students could complete from home, and the results have been inspiring.
The Scranton LaunchBox, powered by Penn State Scranton, was supported this past year by a $2,500 award from the Scranton Area Community Foundation to help with rent costs for its entrepreneurial pre-incubator in South Scranton.
Due to the continuing public health guidelines established in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Penn State Scranton's admission office will be holding its fall recruitment events and open house virtually.
This fall, Penn State Scranton’s Admission office is continuing its series of informative, engaging and convenient virtual recruitment events for prospective students. All events will be held virtually. In addition to the annual Fall Open House, there are also academic showcases and virtual visits planned.
Our students, staff, and faculty work together with the Office of Multicultural Programs to plan virtual educational and cultural events throughout the fall semester that recognize and celebrate the rich, multicultural fabric of our campus.
Penn State Scranton Coordinator of Diversity Dharti Ray, middle screen, discusses the campus' Diversity Circles at the Family Business Alliance's recent webinar, "Diversity Initiatives."
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Penn State Scranton and Wilkes University’s collaborative Family Business Alliance (FBA) has continued to offer engaging and enlightening online programming on a range of issues relevant to the workplace. For its first event of the fall 2020 semester, it examined the especially timely issue of diversity and inclusion in the workplace and on college campuses.
