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.
Penn State Schuylkill hosted an Employee Recognition Event on Friday, Dec. 17, celebrating employees for service milestones, as well as faculty excellence in service, advising, research and teaching. The Outstanding Staff Award winner also was recognized at this event.
Aleksandra Williams, a nursing student in the Penn State Ross and Carol Nese College of Nursing at the Schuylkill campus, will represent the college as the student marshal for the fall 2021 semester.
Valerie Schrader, associate professor of communication arts and sciences at Penn State Schuylkill, and two of her undergraduate research students — Sophia Bates and Courtney Weikel — earned top paper honors at the National Communication Association fall conference.
