Penn State Schuylkill business students engaged in a weeklong celebration of Future Business Leaders of America – Phi Beta Lambda (FBLA-PBL) Week, participating in community service and networking initiatives with Schuylkill County’s business community.
Despite fielding a team of mostly first-year players, Coach Charles Killian led the Penn State Schuylkill women’s basketball team on a thrilling run all the way to the Pennsylvania State University Athletic Conference championship game.
Schuylkill Benefiting THON, Penn State Schuylkill’s chapter of the philanthropic student organization, raised more than $18,875 this year in the fight against pediatric cancer — part of the record-setting $13.7 million raised by THON University-wide.
The peer tutoring program at Penn State Schuylkill is a free and easy-to-access resource for all Penn State Schuylkill students, and its benefits to the peer tutors themselves are just as impressive as the benefits to their tutees.
Penn State Schuylkill’s Radiological Sciences program has released its program effectiveness data for the five-year span between 2016 and 2020, revealing a 95.8% credentialing examination pass rate on first attempt, 100% job placement rate, and 91.7% program completion rate. These successes are evident in two standout program graduates who serve as directors of imaging services at Schuylkill County’s hospitals.
Rick Brazier, senior associate dean for faculty and research in the Office of the Vice President for Commonwealth Campuses, has been named interim dean of Penn State’s 14-campus University College.
Penn State Schuylkill has named nearly 300 — nearly half of the campus's student body — students as fall 2021 dean’s list designees. To earn a dean’s list designation, students must end the semester with a 3.5 GPA or higher. The campus will celebrate the students’ accomplishments at a ceremony held on Monday, April 4.
Penn State Schuylkill has released its community engagement programming schedule for spring 2022, including pre-college, professional development, and entrepreneurship courses. Highlights include the Business Plan Competition, Practical Spanish for the Workplace, Change Management Certification in partnership with Prosci, SHRM courses, grant writing, SAT prep and more.
Sarah Princiotta, assistant professor of biology, and Lucas Redmond, assistant professor of biology, use robust summer fieldwork programs to develop original research and opportunities for undergraduate students to get hands-on experience.
Enrolled students who are noncompliant with the weekly required testing will lose access to Canvas until they become compliant. Continued noncompliance will result in additional disciplinary sanctions, up to and including conduct suspension upon the completion of a formal student conduct process.
