On Sunday, Feb. 6, Penn State Scranton is hosting a Designer Purse Bingo from 3 to 6:30 p.m. in the campus’ Multi-Purpose Building (gym). The event benefits THON and is open to the public. Organizers are encouraging the campus’ staff, students and the community to come out for the event and bring their friends and family along as well.
During her presentation, part of Penn State Scranton's celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, civil rights icon Bettie Mae Fikes recounted her history-making activism, interspersing those recollections and stories, with choruses of songs that have inspired her and which reflected the emotions and feelings surrounding those stories.
Enrolled students who are noncompliant with the weekly required testing will lose access to Canvas until they become compliant. Continued noncompliance will result in additional disciplinary sanctions, up to and including conduct suspension upon the completion of a formal student conduct process.
Penn State Scranton will celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Tuesday, Jan. 18, with a special speaker, "The Voice of Selma" Bettie Mae Fikes, when it celebrates its sixth annual MLK Day Celebration and Excellence in Diversity Awards.
Penn State Scranton's Center for Business Development and Community Outreach recently partnered with the city of Scranton and the Scranton Police Department to conduct the newly developed Penn State BLUE program, which provides diversity training for law enforcement officers.
Corporate Communication majors Molly Morgan and Deyniel Desarden-Ruperto were recently inducted into the campus' Lamda Pi Eta honor society. The new inductees were celebrated by Kim Flanders, corporate communication program coordinator, members of the corporate communication club, and members of the Penn State Scranton faculty and staff.
Thanks to a generous gift from the Keystone Sanitary Landfill and the DeNaples family, Penn State Scranton’s Center for Business Development and Community Outreach will be coordinating a course for high school juniors and seniors that is part of a program focusing on environmental studies at the campus, as well as offering a youth summer camp program for younger children.
