The Penn State Abington Cultural Graduation is a special recognition celebration for new graduates who are students of color, LGBTQ+, and/or first-generation.
This Penn State Abington senior marches toward commencement next week a changed person. Shy when she arrived on campus, she has flourished, becoming an accomplished student and campus leader.
The new educational equity scholarship will enhance Penn State Abington’s ability to recruit and retain students whose gender, race, ethnic, cultural, and/or national background contribute to the diversity of the student body and who have a demonstrated financial need.
Penn State Abington music students performed an in their concert clothes, distanced and masked, in the Woodland Building parking lot. Their audience for this "moment of community"? Themselves, and a handful of people in cars who were picking up students.
The goal of the Penn State Abington event was for the professionals to share career advice related to diversity, equity, and inclusion and for the students to begin building or adding to their networks.
The competition that offered a global company solutions to one of its real world problems. "I can't think of a better way to prepare Abington students for business careers," a Penn State Abington faculty advisor said.
The new scholarship at Penn State Abington will enhance its ability to recruit and retain students whose gender, race, ethnic, cultural, and/or national background contribute to the diversity of the student body and who have a demonstrated financial need.
Margo DelliCarpini, vice provost for strategic educational partnerships and dean of the College of Education and Human Development at The University of Texas at San Antonio, has been named chancellor of Penn State Abington, after a national search. DelliCarpini will start in her new role Jan. 4, 2021.
Their 40-year-plus love story started at Penn State Abington. The Randi Roloff Fair Memorial Educational Equity Scholarship will memorialize this special time in their lives.
