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Class of 2024 votes to establish the UPUA Basic Needs Endowment

At an event held on Oct. 31, leaders from the Student Philanthropy Network announced that the class of 2024 has voted to create the University Park Undergraduate Association Basic Needs Endowment as their class gift. The fund will provide sustained support for students facing hardships in pursuit of their degree.
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Loan "Emily" Pham, assistant professor of business at Penn State Scranton, was the fall semester's first presenter for the campus' Lunch and Learn Brown Bag Seminar series. Her presentation, “Faculty's Turnover Intention in Vietnamese Public Universities: The Impact of Leader-Member Exchange, Psychological Safety, and Job Embeddedness," focused on employee retention. 

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Guest speaker Sara Wolff, second from right, poses for a photo with, from left, Abby Gaebel, Dreamers Club vice president, Ryan Weitz, Dreamers Club president, and Emily Glodzik, coordinator of diversity, equity and inclusion at Penn State Scranton.

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Loan "Emily" Pham, assistant professor of business at Penn State Scranton, was the fall semester's first presenter for the campus' Lunch and Learn Brown Bag Seminar series. Her presentation, “Faculty's Turnover Intention in Vietnamese Public Universities: The Impact of Leader-Member Exchange, Psychological Safety, and Job Embeddedness," focused on employee retention. 

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Abryel Johnson, a fourth-year nursing student at Penn State Scranton, has received a $1,000 Student Engagement Network grant from the University, which she will use during a shadowing/mentorship co-curricular opportunity with VNA Home Health.

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Professor's research focuses on employee retention in Vietnamese universities

Assistant Professor of Business Loan “Emily” Pham, recently presented her research during this semester’s first Brown Bag Lunch Seminar series at Penn State Scranton. Her talk, titled “Faculty's Turnover Intention in Vietnamese Public Universities: The Impact of Leader-Member Exchange, Psychological Safety, and Job Embeddedness,” explores the critical issue of employee turnover in Vietnamese public universities.