Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus hosted 75 students from the University’s western campuses on Jan. 16 for the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service, an annual opportunity to perform acts to benefit communities. Besides Fayette, Beaver, Behrend, DuBois, Greater Allegheny and New Kensington also participated.
For the Jan. 16 Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service, Penn State students from the University’s western campuses came to Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus to volunteer at seven Fayette County organizations, including Fayette Friends of Animals, where students are pictured helping with outdoor cage maintenance. From left are Michelle Yezek, shelter worker Ken Kidd, Marcos Lopez, and Matt Palahunik.
The Penn State Office for General Education is pleased to announce an opportunity for faculty interested in developing a new Integrative Studies General Education course.
Jody Wells of the St. Vincent de Paul Society is always seeking workers for the charity’s second-hand store in downtown Uniontown, but for the past year she had another mission: finding somebody to redesign the organization’s “boring” website that drew few visitors and no new volunteers.
St. Vincent de Paul Society representative Jody Wells, second from left, is shown standing before a projection of the nonprofit’s internet home page, part of a new website recently designed by the IST250 class at Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus. Also pictured are students Rian Davis, Geoffrey Salitrik, Dan Bollbecker, William Cramer, and instructor Don Wilson.
