The Office of the University Registrar at Penn State has announced the implementation of a course watch list in eLion. This application will provide students with the opportunity to be notified when a seat opens in a full section of a course. Students will indicate the course sections they wish to watch and may be notified of an open seat via a Penn State e-mail account and/or a text message to a mobile phone.
There's a quick and simple way to inform everyone on campus of an emergency.
Penn State Schuylkill encourages students, faculty and staff to enroll
in PSUTXT, an easy and accessible system that lets them know via cell
phone when classes are canceled due to weather conditions or if the
campus has an emergency situation. Sign up now for PSUTXT and, when
necessary, Penn State Schuylkill will send a text message alert directly
to your cell phone and/or e-mail account.
Jeffrey Stone, instructor of Information Sciences and Technology
(IST) at Penn State Schuylkill, and Tricia Clark, instructional designer
and instructor of IST at Penn State Berks, have developed a set of
animated learning modules designed to help first-year students succeed
in the CMPSC 101 and CMPSC 121 courses at Penn State Schuylkill.
To accommodate student needs, several offices will be open until 7:00 pm on the following dates:
Monday, August 23 and Tuesday, August 24
Wednesday, September 1 and Thursday, September 2
The offices that will be open are: CE/Adult Student Coordinator, Bursar, Financial Aid Office located in the Administration Building and the Advising Center and Registrar Office located in the B-Building.
Penn State has become known as one of the national leaders in sustainability. The efforts of the university has had a huge impact on the campuses and has served as models for other universities. On March 3, 2010, the first Leading the Green Challenge Conference was held at University Park. Over 250 people attended and the results from this conference not only benefited the environment but also helped to reduce operating costs for the University.Â
Independence Day celebrations almost always include fireworks of some kind. The Prevent Blindness America organization recommends attending professionally organized fireworks displays rather than buying and setting off your own. This view is echoed by the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), which collects and reports data on fireworks-related injuries every year. They report that 7,000 emergency room visits from fireworks-related injuries occurred during 2008, including seven deaths. In 2007, there were 11 deaths and 9,800 emergency room visits from fireworks-related injury.