Administration

Barbara Sims named Academic Leadership Program Fellow

Penn State Harrisburg Associate Professor of Criminal Justice Barbara A. Sims is one of only five University faculty members to be named a Fellow of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation’s Academic Leadership Program.

The CIC is the academic consortium of the Big Ten universities plus the University of Chicago.

Through its leadership program, participants who have demonstrated exceptional ability and administrative promise are aided in further developing their leadership and managerial skills. Those selected from Penn State for the 2008-09 program have been chosen because of their significant contributions and potential to undertake leadership responsibilities at the University.

Career in criminal justice is far from Korea, economics degree

When Joongyeup Lee earned a bachelor’s degree in economics in his native South Korea, he had no inkling that a career in criminal justice was in his future.

But two years in the South Korean Army and master’s degree study at Penn State Harrisburg have put him on a new path that has already resulted in academic honors and a full scholarship.

Data Center director elected to national post

Sue Copella, director of the Pennsylvania State Data Center on the campus of Penn State Harrisburg, has been elected vice chair of the Federal/State Cooperative Program for Population Projections (FSCPPP).

Elected at the organization’s annual meeting in New Orleans, Copella will serve as chair in 2009.

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