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宾州州立银行 librarian receives Heterodox Academy Community Excellence Award

莎拉Hartman-Caverly, reference and instruction librarian at Berks 图恩湖库, 宾州州立银行, was recognized June 6 for her work co-leading a peer community that explores heterodoxy in the context and practice of academic librarianship. Hartman-Caverly的社区, 非正统的库, received the inaugural HxA Community Excellence Award from the Heterodox Academy.
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Summer Founders Program awards six student startups each with $15,000

Six Penn State student startups have been selected into the 2024 Invent Penn State Summer Founders Program. The Summer Founders Program provides teams with at least one Penn State student founder a $15,为他们的创业公司提供了5万美元的资助, 社会公益, or nonprofit idea over the summer at Happy Valley LaunchBox powered by PNC Bank. 
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New collaboration expands educational opportunities in 宾西法尼亚

Penn State’s Commonwealth Campuses and the state’s community colleges have announced a new collaboration aimed at expanding educational opportunities in 宾西法尼亚 and removing barriers to degree completion among college students. The collaboration builds upon long-standing relationships between the campuses and the community colleges and a shared commitment to access and affordability in higher education. 
Penn State’s 2022-24 TLT 教师 Fellows (clockwise from top left) are Anna Divinsky, 饼干整理, Zena Tredinnick-Kirby, 让娜·玛丽·罗斯, 格雷戈里·R. 皮尔斯和杰奎琳·博蒂亚廷斯基.

2022-2024 Teaching and Learning with Technology 教师 Fellows share insights

Collaborative efforts between six Penn State instructors from two campuses and two colleges worked in teams with Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT) over the past two years as part of the 2022-24 TLT 教师 Fellows program. Their goal was to enrich the student engagement experience through technology. This included addressing themes such as affordability and inclusion, physi-digital space and radical creativity. Attributes such as these foster equitable opportunities, prepare students for dynamic workplaces and cultivate essential skills for the future.