Learning Center program earns recertification

Penn State Harrisburg’s Learning Center peer tutor training program has earned a five-year recertification from the College Reading and Learning Association. With this certification, Penn State Harrisburg remains one of only seven certified colleges in the capital region.

The certification provides recognition and positive reinforcement for the tutors’ successful work and sets a standard of skills and training for tutors.

Hershey High ensemble to join college choir for Dec. 8 concert

Hershey High School’s vocal ensemble, “Cantabile,” will join Penn State Harrisburg’s student choir to herald the coming of the holiday season in a free public concert December 8 at 5:15 p.m. in the Morrison Gallery of the college library.

“Cantabile” is an auditioned ensemble that meets daily at the high school.  It is one of four choirs in the school’s vocal music program.  Repertoire performed by Hershey Cantabile ranges from Renaissance to popular. 

Web site profiles American emigration to Liberia

Building on years of research and two published books, a Penn State Harrisburg faculty member has created a web site dedicated to profiling the historic African American emigration to Liberia.

Associate Professor of Communications and Humanities C. Patrick Burrowes unveiled his interactive web site entitled “Like a Motherless Child: African American Emigrants to Liberia, 1820-1904” as part of a presentation to faculty, staff, and students recently in the Gallery Lounge. Taken from the title of the well-known spiritual, “Like a motherless child expresses the overriding feeling of dispossession and alienation felt by the emigrants,” Burrowes says. Many of them former slaves, “they had no mother and they had no homeland,” he adds.

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