In light of the recent change in federal policy on the rights of transgender students to use facilities corresponding with their gender identity, Penn State reaffirmed its commitment to nondiscrimination today (March 1). The University’s long-standing policies protecting the rights of individuals and prohibiting gender-based discrimination have not changed.
Penn State has officially launched Let's Grow State, a new crowdfunding platform for fundraising projects across the University. The platform, managed by the Office of Annual Giving in the Division of Development and Alumni Relations, is designed for individuals or groups of Penn Staters to promote and raise money for the ideas, projects, and causes that are important to them.
The Penn State Office for General Education is pleased to announce an opportunity for faculty interested in developing a new Integrative Studies General Education course.
Vernon Dale Jones, vice president for strategy, administration and board affairs at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, has been named chancellor and chief academic officer at Penn State Wilkes-Barre. Jones, whose appointment is effective Jan. 16, succeeds Charles Davis, who is retiring after leading the Wilkes-Barre campus since March 2006.
With Penn State’s recent announcement of the next six communities to receive seed-grant funding through its Invent Penn State initiative, the University’s economic development effort has grown to include 13 hubs for innovation spread across Pennsylvania.
Nick Jones, executive vice president and provost, reviewed the ongoing effort to implement Penn State’s new strategic plan at the Office of Planning and Assessment’s Quality Advocates discussion series on Dec. 1.
Penn State Wilkes-Barre Chancellor Charles H. Davis offered an overview of the campus’ 100 years of history as a community partner in the Wyoming Valley and shared the formula for future successes with the University’s Board of Trustees, as part of the board’s regular summer meeting.
The July meeting of the Penn State Board of Trustees is now available from WPSU at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ij-s5KWmZrU. The trustees met on July 22 at the Nesbitt Academic Commons on the Wilkes-Barre campus, in Lehman, Pennsylvania.
