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Campus Badge Program

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.

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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.

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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.

Members of a band hold instruments while standing around a black car

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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.

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The lawn at Penn State's Old Main was adorned with 2,977 American flags during an event hosted by the College Republicans on the evening of Sept. 9. The flags will remain on the lawn through the weekend to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the United States. Each flag on the lawn represents one victim of the attacks.

Close up flags on lawn

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The lawn at Penn State's Old Main was adorned with 2,977 American flags during an event hosted by the College Republicans on the evening of Sept. 9. The flags will remain on the lawn through the weekend to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the United States. Each flag on the lawn represents one victim of the attacks.

Sara Curran headshot in grey sweater, orange scarf.

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Dr. Sara Curran, Director of the Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology, University of Washington, will discuss current and future research to catalyze next generation, scientific innovations during the upcoming De Jong Lecture Oct. 4.