In the face of severe financial impacts to the University brought on by the global coronavirus pandemic, on April 23 Penn State President Eric J. Barron announced some salary adjustments; a 3% across-the-board cut to university budgets in the next fiscal year; and his intention to work with the Board of Trustees to freeze tuition for the 2020-21 academic year to limit student costs.
Before you wrap up 2019, the Nittany Lion and friends have an important lesson to share. Take your Penn State pride with you wherever you are this season with this handy “We Are” 101.
Tim Perez, a Penn State York student in the Graham Fellows Program for Entrepreneurial Leadership, discusses his internship with Wolfgang Confectioners.
There’s something about Penn State that turns the “I” into “We,” but what is it? How do thousands of individual “me’s” turn into a powerful “us,” all to make the world a better place?
John Champagne, professor of English and chair of the Global Languages and Cultures program at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, has been named Penn State Laureate for the 2018-19 academic year. As laureate, he will tour Pennsylvania to ask probing questions about — and offer a historical perspective on — the role of the artist in times of political turmoil.
Penn State has adopted the Run, Hide, Fight method to provide students, faculty, staff and visitors with the tools to think clearly and act quickly if faced with an active attacker. In addition to in-person training provided by University Police and Public Safety, WPSU and University Police have produced an online training video illustrating Run, Hide, Fight in action.
