Welcome to our School´s home page. We are a small school with about 450 undergraduates and 300 graduate students. We are part of Penn State, a large, well-known public research university. We have the infrastructure and resources of a large research university with the ambiance of a small college. Our classes are small and are taught by well-trained faculty members.
We are a quality institution with clear vision and purpose. The school is accredited at the undergraduate and graduate level by AACSB International – The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International. Fewer than 400 of the 1,200 colleges and universities in the United States offering undergraduate or graduate business degrees are accredited by AACSB.
One of the nation’s leading authorities on risk management, Carl Pritchard, will discuss the connection between risk and risk ethics in business when the Keystone Chapter of the Project Management Institute meets Wednesday, Feb. 10 at Penn State Harrisburg.
The 6 p.m. networking session followed by the 6:30 lecture in the college’s Olmsted Auditorium are free and open to the public. For information, contact Lisa Marie Smith at 717-608-9813.
Penn State Harrisburg criminal justice faculty member Shaun L. Gabbidon has become the second scholar in the college’s history to be named a Distinguished Professor by the University’s Office of the President.
Since joining the School of Public Affairs faculty and its undergraduate and graduate programs in Criminal Justice in 1999, Gabbidon has built a national and international reputation for his research and writing on criminal justice issues, including race and crime, security administration, and pedagogical issues in criminology/criminal justice.
A March 2 appearance by the daughter of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. highlights Penn State Harrisburg’s five-installment 2010 diversity lecture series.
Bernice A. King, the youngest daughter of Rev. King and the late Coretta Scott King, will highlight the second annual Women for Diversity Award Dinner at the Hershey Lodge and Convention Center. Tickets for the dinner and lecture are $90. For information on the 5:30 p.m. reception and 7 p.m. lecture, phone 717-948-6180.
