This fall approximately 5,247 Penn State students will receive their diplomas. University-wide there will be 252 associate, 3,936 baccalaureate, 762 master's, 11 law and 286 doctoral degrees awarded. Following is a compilation of commencement ceremonies and speaker information for Penn State's 24 locations.
With Penn State’s recent announcement of the next six communities to receive seed-grant funding through its Invent Penn State initiative, the University’s economic development effort has grown to include 13 hubs for innovation spread across Pennsylvania.
Penn State York will celebrate its 16th annual fall commencement at 6 p.m. Dec. 16 in the Pullo Family Performing Arts Center on campus. William S. Shipley III, chairman of the board of Shipley Group and Penn State Board of Trustees Representative, will be the commencement speaker.
Don’t be surprised to see some of the characters from “Doug,” "Rugrats,” “Bobby’s World,” “Darkwing Duck," “Beauty and the Beast” and “Aladdin” at Penn State York on Monday night. The theme of this semester’s Late-night Breakfast, which will be held from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Dec. 12 at Rosie’s in the Joe and Rosie Ruhl Student Community Center, is '90s cartoons and Disney.
Penn State York will be closed for regular business for the semester break beginning at 5 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 22, and will reopen at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan 3, 2017.
Designed to help high school students prepare to take the SAT, Penn State York’s SAT preparation course offers a variety of test-taking strategies. The course will meet from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on four consecutive Saturdays from Jan. 28 to Feb. 18 in Room 112 of the Edward M. Elias Science Building on the York campus.
Applications for the Penn State Secondary Mathematics Noyce Scholarship Program must be submitted by Jan. 18, 2017. The competitive renewable scholarships will provide $19,000 per year for eligible students’ last two years of college.
Honoring Maddie Hill is something that members of Penn State York Benefiting THON and the campus community knew was the right thing to do. Hill, 19, who died in June after battling cancer three times, will be honored at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 2 in a ceremony held between the women’s and men’s basketball games in the campus gym in the Joe and Rosie Ruhl Student Community Center.
Celebrating children and their rights is something that the Community Relations Council (CFR) Club at Penn State York takes very seriously. The celebration from 4 to 6 p.m. on Nov. 17 in the Conference Center is free and open to the public.
