Rising program provides jobs for disabled students
ByAt Shippensburg University, students are helping students with disabilities achieve their dreams in the workplace.
At Shippensburg University, students are helping students with disabilities achieve their dreams in the workplace.
Dreadful Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings are the times nobody on campus looks forward to. Having your window open those days will lead you to be woken up before your alarm sounds because of the hated ROTC cadets, according to the application program Yik Yak.
Taking off in a Chinook helicopter, ROTC Cadets departed to Fort Indiantown Gap last weekend to conduct a training mission that encompasses all the information they have learned. Joint Training Exercise (JFTX) is a three-day training event where military science level three cadets take their turns leading fellow cadets on missions through the woods.
Pennsylvania community and religious leaders presented citizen’s warrants of arrest to state legislators on Thursday at the Pennsylvania State Capitol building, for not voting for adequate education funding.
Picture yourself walking across campus and you see a small cat, shivering, running for cover from the harsh realities of being a stray on a college campus. Shippensburg University employee Sara Pike has the solution.
Showcasing the best Shippensburg University has to offer, the Minds@Work Conference boasted student research projects on April 19 in the Ceddia Union Building.
Going to a national campaign rally is a lot like going to a block party: You will hear loud and strange noises, there will be lot of weird looking people and you know at some point the police are going to show up. All you hope for is that you can leave before a snaking line of armed officers file through the crowd, shining piercing light in your eyes and demanding you back away from them.
Communication/journalism week provides department students with educational opportunities in the three journalism emphases offered at Shippensburg University.
“Every student has their own unique experience,” said Joseph Hasper, an official of Shippensburg Unversity’s ROTC, explaining cadets can be good mentors.
More than 100 Shippensburg University students joined numerous Shippensburg residents on Saturday in picking up pieces of trash that ranged from golf balls to umbrellas across the town as part of Shippensburg’s annual Ship Shape Day. The 20-year-old spring cleanup day is part of the community’s series of week-long events that are centered around caring for the environment.
Shippensburg University students joined thousands of devout supporters at two national campaign rallies last week, where two presidential candidates called on Pennsylvanians for their vote in today’s primary. Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Bernie Sanders made respective campaign stops in Harrisburg and Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, vying with their rivals to win the Keystone State.
Showcasing the best Shippensburg University has to offer, the Minds@Work Conference boasted student research projects on April 19 in the Ceddia Union Building.
Local, state and federal law enforcement will be monitoring Shippensburg University more closely after an anonymous letter was sent to a faculty member last week, which threatened acts of violence against SU, according to SU officials. The letter was vague and did not threaten anyone in particular, but it is being taken extremely seriously, said SU president George “Jody” Harpster.
Professors and coaches of Pennsylvania’s state universities have not ruled out going on strike during the fall semester if they cannot negotiate new terms for their contract. The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) is currently working with the Association of Pennsylvania State College & University Faculties (APSCUF) to agree on salaries and working conditions, said Brendan Finucane, president of Shippensburg University’s chapter of APSCUF. Negotiations in Harrisburg, where PASSHE is based, are entering a more serious phase, Finucane said.
Increased tuition and state funding is expected to cut Shippensburg University’s $1 million deficit to about $100,000 by the end of the semester, although it has the potential to increase by the fall semester. Rising faculty and staff retirement and medical costs amounts to about $2.6 million in new expenses for SU, said SU president George “Jody” Harpster.
GETTYSBURG – About 2,500 people turned out to hear Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders speak today at Gettysburg College about what he said is a moral obligation to change the economic and educational systems.
Shippensburg University students received the following email from the SU office of communications and marketing at 2:11 p.m. today: University Police, Pennsylvania State Police and the United States Postal Service are investigating an anonymous letter a faculty member received at home that contained a threat of violence against the university.
HARRISBURG — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump called on more than 3,000 supporters at a Thursday night rally in Harrisburg to vote for him in Pennsylvania’s primary election on April 26.
There are two urgent care facilities near the Shippensburg area that offer treatment for common, non-life-threatening conditions to patients on a daily basis.
Following the development of a new sustainability program and a grant donated by the National Science Foundation, Shippensburg University put forth additional environmental conservation efforts during the 2015-16 school year.