Shippensburg University students interested in finance attended a lecture Thursday to receive career advice, and hear about an entrepreneur’s strategies for running a small business. Fergus McCann, a Canadian businessman and entrepreneur, began his career in 1970 when he founded a golf-tour company for American golfers traveling overseas.
At Shippensburg University, students are helping students with disabilities achieve their dreams in the workplace.
Taking off in a Chinook helicopter, ROTC Cadets departed to Fort Indiantown Gap last weekend to conduct a training mission that encompasses all the information they have learned. Joint Training Exercise (JFTX) is a three-day training event where military science level three cadets take their turns leading fellow cadets on missions through the woods.
Pennsylvania community and religious leaders presented citizen’s warrants of arrest to state legislators on Thursday at the Pennsylvania State Capitol building, for not voting for adequate education funding.
Showcasing the best Shippensburg University has to offer, the Minds@Work Conference boasted student research projects on April 19 in the Ceddia Union Building.
Going to a national campaign rally is a lot like going to a block party: You will hear loud and strange noises, there will be lot of weird looking people and you know at some point the police are going to show up. All you hope for is that you can leave before a snaking line of armed officers file through the crowd, shining piercing light in your eyes and demanding you back away from them.
“Every student has their own unique experience,” said Joseph Hasper, an official of Shippensburg Unversity’s ROTC, explaining cadets can be good mentors.
More than 100 Shippensburg University students joined numerous Shippensburg residents on Saturday in picking up pieces of trash that ranged from golf balls to umbrellas across the town as part of Shippensburg’s annual Ship Shape Day. The 20-year-old spring cleanup day is part of the community’s series of week-long events that are centered around caring for the environment.
Shippensburg University students joined thousands of devout supporters at two national campaign rallies last week, where two presidential candidates called on Pennsylvanians for their vote in today’s primary. Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Bernie Sanders made respective campaign stops in Harrisburg and Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, vying with their rivals to win the Keystone State.
Local, state and federal law enforcement will be monitoring Shippensburg University more closely after an anonymous letter was sent to a faculty member last week, which threatened acts of violence against SU, according to SU officials. The letter was vague and did not threaten anyone in particular, but it is being taken extremely seriously, said SU president George “Jody” Harpster.
Professors and coaches of Pennsylvania’s state universities have not ruled out going on strike during the fall semester if they cannot negotiate new terms for their contract. The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) is currently working with the Association of Pennsylvania State College & University Faculties (APSCUF) to agree on salaries and working conditions, said Brendan Finucane, president of Shippensburg University’s chapter of APSCUF. Negotiations in Harrisburg, where PASSHE is based, are entering a more serious phase, Finucane said.
GETTYSBURG – About 2,500 people turned out to hear Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders speak today at Gettysburg College about what he said is a moral obligation to change the economic and educational systems.
HARRISBURG — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump called on more than 3,000 supporters at a Thursday night rally in Harrisburg to vote for him in Pennsylvania’s primary election on April 26.
There are two urgent care facilities near the Shippensburg area that offer treatment for common, non-life-threatening conditions to patients on a daily basis.
Following the development of a new sustainability program and a grant donated by the National Science Foundation, Shippensburg University put forth additional environmental conservation efforts during the 2015-16 school year.
“What are you thankful for?” This is the question that educator and community organizer Lori Harris always starts her speeches with, like at Shippensburg University on April 12. Harris went around the room in the Dauphin Humanities Center asking the students of SU what they are thankful for.
Members of Shippensburg University’s Latino Student Organization marched through the quad Friday, waving signs and chanting to draw attention to a discriminatory Arizona law that targets Hispanic immigrants. “¡La Pa’Lante!” one yelled, waiting for the translation to follow — “Moving forward!” The eighth annual march is meant to gain support for repealing Arizona’s ID laws that require immigrants to show their ID to law enforcement to prove they are here legally, said Jahanny Pean, an SU junior and vice president of the club.
On March 31, Tesla unveiled its most affordable, all-electric vehicle to date, the Model 3. While the car will not be available until the end of 2017, reservations for the vehicle have already climbed to nearly 400,000, according to Forbes Magazine.
It is no secret the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) is, and has been, facing budget problems.
