The Commuter Meal Plan features three price levels: $250, $500 and $1,000. The $250 level, which is new this year, offers flexibility for students seeking a small number of meals, snacks and/or beverages per week at Campus Dining locations.
Penn State students who commute to campus or live in on-campus apartments have a convenient option for grabbing a meal or a snack: the Commuter Meal Plan. The plan, which is charged to the student account, has recently been expanded to three levels and is now offered at additional Penn State locations.
Although the wooded walkway leading up to the Hayfield House is no longer technically an arboretum as it was in the days of John Conyngham, it still fills 15 acres on campus with natural beauty and remains an important landmark on the Penn State Wilkes-Barre campus.
The idyllic wooded walkway that blankets Penn State Wilkes-Barre in lush greenery may not technically be an arboretum anymore, but it does date back to the campus’ roots as the home of a prominent outdoorsman while also displaying a rich diversity of Pennsylvania forestry.
This historical photo, taken by photographer J. C. Maugans, provides a glimpse into what The Wilkes-Barre Record called "a garden park" in 1934, when what would become the Penn State Wilkes-Barre campus was the vacation home of coal baron John Conyngham and his wife Bertha.
This historical photo, taken by photographer J.C. Maugans in 1934, shows the walkway through the wooded acreage leading to the iconic Hayfield House, which at the time boasted two of every native Pennsylvania tree, originally planted by coal baron John Conyngham.
