Penn State has developed a comprehensive spring 2021 COVID-19 testing strategy for all campuses that includes both required and voluntary testing during the remote learning period and the in-person portion of the spring semester.
Staff and faculty who worked at the University at the height of the Civil Rights movement and students who were first-year students in 1968 — the year of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination — and graduated in 1972, will take part in a Zoom panel discussion on Jan. 15, during the virtual MLK Memorial Celebration.
Black students from the Frederick E. Douglass Association, which became the Black Student Union, protesting on the Old Main Lawn in 1968. The association presented a list of 13 demands, including the enrollment of more Black students, to University President Eric A. Walter.
The Penn State Black Student Union demonstrates against racism during halftime of the Penn State-Boston College football game at Beaver Stadium on Nov. 1, 1969. The demonstration was planned in advance and coordinated with the University.
In October, the campus offered “All Are Welcome Here,” an interactive event intended to build on the language and concepts introduced in last fall's Diversity Forum.
