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.
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.
As part of the University’s comprehensive testing strategy for the spring semester, all Penn State students must meet requirements for COVID-19 testing prior to their return or if they are already living in their campus community.
As part of our regular "We Are!" feature, we recognize seven Penn Staters who have gone above and beyond what's asked of them in their work at the University. Thank you Pam Knowlton, Laura Adams, Lynnicia Massenburg, Cecil Shelton, Wendy Hanna-Rose, Annie Liu and Michelle Henrish!
The nursing program at Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus began the spring semester with an educational escape room, a popular exercise first introduced last year.
Forty students of Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus have generated $46,112.56 in donations for the annual Penn State IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon (THON), held Feb. 19–21.
Penn State is planning a phased return over the summer semester to a full on-campus learning environment for fall 2021. The University’s priorities continue to be the health and well-being of its students, faculty, staff and local communities, and the plans for expanded in-person classes have the flexibility built in to quickly respond to changing pandemic conditions, if necessary.
As of March 1 (the conclusion of the universal required re-testing period), the University is conducting random testing of between 1% and 2% of the University’s population of students and employees living, learning or working on campus as well as those who access campus.
Students in Penn State Fayette’s Human Development and Family Studies program have an opportunity to obtain a new certification that could give them a competitive edge in the job market.
Students in the Bachelor of Science in Nursing program at Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus have gained critical field experience while administering COVID-19 vaccinations in the region.