College partners to present ESL symposium

Penn State Harrisburg, the Pennsylvania Department of Education, and the Center for Schools and Communities are partnering to present a free research symposium August 12 in Harrisburg aimed at enhancing education and employment for English language and bilingual learners.

The event is structured to be of interest to education researchers, school administrators and teachers, school board members, ESL content and migrant educators, legislators and policy-makers, workforce development personnel, and parents.

College’s engineering training has a global reach

Engineering education at Penn State Harrisburg transcends national boundaries to meet the needs of adult students.

This summer, as they have for 15 years, the college’s Continuing Education unit and its School of Science, Engineering, and Technology hosted a two-week Resident Engineering Laboratory for students enrolled in a non-affiliated correspondence college associate degree program. Students major in civil, electrical, or mechanical engineering technology and are required to complete a hands-on laboratory component prior to receiving their degrees. Penn State Harrisburg is the only provider of the required hands-on engineering laboratory education.

Dispatch from Korea: Thoughts about culture, respect, and transportation

Stephen Dyson, a senior Criminal Justice major, is spending July at Pukyong National University in Busan, South Korea as part of a cultural and educational exchange program.

This trip has been amazing,

I was surprised to see how much corporate sponsorship there is. There are apartment buildings built by LG and Samsung. The baseball teams don’t have the cities’ names in them, just the businesses name. Like here in Busan, it’s not the Busan Giants it’s the Lotte Giants. Lotte is a very large department store like Sears.

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