Penn State Scranton recently hosted two different educational and hands-on workshop events, one for area school nurses and another for health care workers from Visiting Nurses Association Home Health. Both events were aimed at making sure nurses and health care workers in the local community feel confident in a variety of skills so that their patients are receiving quality care.
Nationally-known Word/Slam Poet Asia Samson performed this month at Penn State Scranton, sharing his unique style of poetry with students, who found his emotional personal stories heartfelt and inspiring.
Nationally known word/slam poetry artist Asia Samson inspired Penn State Scranton students with his life story at an event held on campus earlier this month.
There are currently four different badge programs tailored for Penn State Scranton faculty and staff to learn new skills.The Media Production Badge is a newly offered course for faculty and staff. The Course Design Badge is four sessions that include consulting with the campus instructional designer for creating a new course or revising an existing course. The Accessibility Badge program starts Thursday, Sept. 14, and participants will learn Penn State accessibility requirements and create a Canvas course utilizing Universal Design for Learning principles. The Canvas Learning Path Badge takes place in five sessions and includes consulting with the campus instructional designer to review a completed course.
Over the past eight years, Penn State Scranton has offered a variety of "badge" programs each semester through its information technology department that allow faculty and staff to enhance their professional and technical skills, as well as classroom learning development, benefiting faculty taking the programs and the students they teach, as well as the campus' administrative office operations.
Since 2016, Penn State Scranton has offered a variety of campus badge programs, which provide professional development to faculty and staff. The program first began in spring 2016 with the Canvas Learning Path Badge created for the University’s transition to a new learning management system and continues with new programs, such as the Accessibility Badge program, which starts on Thursday, Sept. 14.
The musicians of Las Cafeteras — Jose Cano, Denise Carlos, David Flores, Hector Flores, Daniel French, and Leah Gallegos — fashion a patchwork quilt of “urgent, relevant music” with infectious live performances. Las Cafeteras will present a performance at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 10, in Eisenhower Auditorium at University Park.
The musicians of Las Cafeteras — Jose Cano, Denise Carlos, David Flores, Hector Flores, Daniel French, and Leah Gallegos — fashion a patchwork quilt of “urgent, relevant music” with infectious live performances. Las Cafeteras will present a performance at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 10, in Eisenhower Auditorium at University Park.
