Online programs garner vast interest
The Daily Collegian (February 5, 2008)
» Since Penn State announced it would become the first university in the nation to offer two online psychology degree programs, prospective students have begun to show interest.
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Partnerships lay groundwork for growth of online turfgrass program
Penn State Live (January 24, 2008)
»Penn State announced that an articulation agreement will give more students the opportunity to apply credits toward a bachelor’s degree in Penn State’s award-winning online turfgrass program.
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World Scholars
Penn Stater Magazine (January 1, 2008)
» For students in Penn State's World Campus—and for their instructors—coping with the logistics of online learning is part of the challenge.
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Titans' Lowry will graduate with former teammates on Saturday (link no longer active)
Centre Daily Times (December 21, 2007)
» Calvin Lowry, one of the cornerstones of Penn State's gritty defense during its 2005 Big Ten championship season, will receive his diploma 23 months after playing his final game as a Nittany Lion.
Lowry got in touch with Penn State academic counselor Todd Kulka, who helped him get connected with Penn State's World Campus.
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Penn State Helps Army Recruits Move Toward College Education
PRWeb (November 7, 2007)
» U.S. Army recruits can now get a jump on a Penn State education as the University has joined on to be a part of the Army's Concurrent Admissions Program (ConAP). ConAP is designed to help soldiers begin to talk with a university immediately after enlistment, so they can begin and potentially complete a bachelor's or master's degree while in the Army.
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Online enrollments continue to grow as World Campus approaches 10th anniversary
Penn State Live (November 2, 2007)
» With the launch of the World Campus in 1998, Penn State expanded its reach worldwide. The World Campus now ranks as one of the 10 largest online learning campuses in the United States and online enrollments are increasing by more than 25 percent annually, according to Vice President for Outreach Craig Weidemann.
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Classroom of the Future Is Virtually Anywhere
New York Times (October 31, 2007)
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Online courses increase in popularity
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (October 16, 2007)
»Al Turgeon knows turf. The Penn State University professor of turf grass management is world-renown, but students don't have to travel to University Park to learn from him.
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First students of Disaster Preparedness program awarded certificates
Penn State Live (October 11, 2007)
»Penn State College of Medicine recently awarded certificates of completion to Timothy Allen and Brian White, the first two students of its Disaster Preparedness Program. The program, offered through Penn State's World Campus, was designed in the aftermath of the tragic events that occurred on Sept. 11, 2001, to provide training for national disasters.
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Penn State Outreach creates new unit to address growing adult learner population
Penn State Live (August 10, 2007)
» Penn State Outreach has created a unit dedicated to extend and enhance its services to adult learners. Adult Learner Enrollment Services, which integrates the efforts of Penn State's Adult Learner Advocacy Initiative, the Center for Adult Learner Services and Outreach Student Services, will be led by Martha Jordan, director of Adult Learner Advocacy at the University.
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Penn State begins first online geospatial intelligence program
Penn State Live (June 21, 2007)
» In light of a greatly increased demand for qualified analysts in the intelligence, defense and emergency management fields, Penn State has developed a new online certificate program in geospatial intelligence (GEOINT).
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Online Military Students Share Treasured Tokens
CourierPost Online (April 6, 2007)
» "When I told Eric Pignatore, an art history student and Marine Corps staff sergeant, that I was researching collectibles for keepsakes of the troops, he kindly offered to help ...".
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Fizel receives Graduate Program Chair Leadership Award
Penn State Live (March 30, 2007)
» John Fizel, professor of economics at Penn State Erie and chair of Penn State's iMBA program, is this year's winner of the Graduate Program Chair Leadership Award.
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Offbeat Cyber Classes Extend Beyond the Norm
AOL.com (February 12, 2007)
» Cumulus, cumulonimbus, or stratus—oh my! At Penn State's World Campus, you can apply to the weather forecasting program or choose from more than 50 online degrees and certificate programs.
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Miller to retire after 30 years of innovation and service
Penn State Live (February 8, 2007)
» Gary Miller, associate vice president for Outreach and executive director of Continuing and Distance Education, has announced that he will retire from Penn State at the end of June.
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Online and on task: Degree programs done via computer work for many, but experts advise checking them out (link no longer active)
Altoona Mirror (February 7, 2007)
» In many ways, Anna Rose Eckenrode is your typical student pursuing her master's degree. She has an array of assignments and projects to complete on time, all while working full-time and raising three children with her husband, Tony.
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Penn State Online Turfgrass Program Earns National Honor
Penn State Live (August 15, 2006)
» Sloan Consortium recognizes program as the Most Outstanding Online Teaching and Learning Program
When Penn State launched its online campus eight years ago, Dr. A. J. Turgeon was ready.
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PSU training soldiers online
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (October 15, 2006)
» Nearly 700 active U.S. military personnel have enrolled in the online Nonlethal Weapons Certificate program offered through the Center for Community and Public Safety at Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus.
This week that number may increase significantly, said Ted A. Mellors, director of the CCPS.
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SUNY Learning Network director tapped to head Penn State World Campus
Penn State Live (August 15, 2006)
» Ken Udas, director of the State University of New York (SUNY) Learning Network, has been appointed executive director of Penn State World Campus.
As the new head of Penn State's online campus, which offers more than 50 online degrees and certificate programs, Udas will lead an experienced professional staff involved in providing education programs and services to adult learners worldwide. Currently, Penn State has more than 25,400 distance education enrollments. Udas will oversee World Campus program management, student services, marketing, finance and technology teams and guide the World Campus' future development.
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Penn State University ranks 40th among global universities
Newsweek (August 13, 2006)
» Evaluating schools on some of the same measures used in rankings published by Shanghai Jiaotong University and the Times of London Higher Education Survey, the Newsweek poll ranked global universities according to account openness and diversity, as well as distinction in research.
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World Campus certificate offers integrated approach to literacy instruction
Penn State Live (March 21, 2006)
» The emerging needs of families are at the forefront of Penn State's recently redesigned online certificate program in family literacy. The program, a partnership between the Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy at Penn State and the National Center for Family Literacy, is now composed of three specialized tracks--children's education, parental involvement, and family literacy--to better meet the needs of literacy professionals with varying interests. The certificate program will help literacy professionals around the country and around the world convey the joy of reading to children and families.
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World Campus courses emphasize business skills for rapidly changing IT climate
Penn State Live (March 14, 2006)
» IT professionals looking to break into or move up in the business world can learn the skills necessary to do so in Penn State's new, online associate degree program in information sciences and technology. The program emphasizes problem-based learning, in which students deal with real-world problems and prepare to deal with problems arising from changing technology and handle the innovations of tomorrow.
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World Campus kiosk moved to Keller Building
Penn State Live (March 13, 2006)
» World Campus students on Penn State's University Park campus or in the State College area now have a new, more convenient place to register for classes, make payments, or drop off lessons. The World Campus kiosk, previously located on the third floor of the HUB-Robeson Center, has now moved to the lobby of the Keller Building on the northwestern part of the University's campus. The Keller Building is also home to some of Penn State's Outreach offices.
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Penn State World Campus joins U.S. Marine Corps education service
Penn State Live (March 8, 2006)
» The approximately 1,900 U.S. Marines currently enrolled at Penn State campuses will soon be joined by their colleagues on active duty, and their families, thanks to the Penn State World Campus's partnership with the Marine Corps branch of the Servicemembers Opportunity Colleges. More than 177,000 active-duty Marines and their family members can now enroll in the online bachelor of science degree program in organizational leadership and the associate degree program in hotel, restaurant, and institutional management. These programs will enable soldiers and their families to obtain a quality education while serving their country from locations around the world.
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Online project management programs offer flexible learning environment
Penn State Live (February 21, 2006)
» To keep up with the wide range of tasks they must accomplish, project managers constantly need to update their skills. With Penn State's online master of project management degree program and 12-credit graduate certificate program in project management, they can do just that and use the program's flexibility to learn while still working full-time. Companies such as Rolls-Royce and AMEC have already begun using these programs for their employees' project management education.
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Penn State joins Natural Resources Distance Learning Consortium
Penn State Live (February 13, 2006)
» The Natural Resources Distance Learning Consortium, a joint venture between the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Virginia Tech's College of Natural Resources, has invited Penn State's World Campus to become one of its members. Membership in this partnership means that the University's online master's degree in geographic information systems is one of the programs deemed beneficial for natural resource professionals on the federal, state, and local levels of the USDA Forest Service and the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management. Penn State is now one of five higher education institutions nationwide participating in the program.
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Penn State promotes weather awareness with online forecasting courses
Penn State Live (October 19, 2005)
» Sheryl Bradley is a traffic analyst for the city of Orlando, Fla. As chairperson of the Orange County Community Traffic Safety Team (CTST), she pays very close attention to the weather. "My primary role is to analyze traffic safety concerns specific to pedestrian and school-related traffic," Bradley said. "However, during an emergency situation like we experienced last year with Hurricanes Charley, Frances and Jeanne, I coordinate our communications efforts, assessment teams, repair crews and FEMA reporting."
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PSU offers new online homeland security programs
Daily Collegian (October 7, 2005)
» Just weeks after announcing the development of a Homeland Security in Public Health Preparedness degree, two new similar graduate certificates will soon be available, officials announced yesterday.
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Survey ranks Penn State No. 1 in supply chain education
Penn State Live (September 21, 2005)
» A recent survey of supply chain practitioners and academics in Canada, Mexico and the United States ranks Penn State's Smeal College of Business as having the top supply chain program in North America.
Stephen M. Rutner of Georgia Southern University and Stanley E. Fawcett of Brigham Young University asked more than 1,000 supply chain and logistics professionals and 175 college and university educators to rank the top 20 programs in North America.
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Penn State partners with Sloan Consortium to assist hurricane victims
Penn State Live (September 21, 2005)
» Penn State's World Campus, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences and School of Information Sciences and Technology have joined a Sloan Consortium initiative to offer a condensed online fall semester free of charge to students whose studies were disrupted by Hurricane Katrina.
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Penn State College of Medicine to offer master's in homeland security degree
Penn State Live (March 18, 2005)
» Beginning spring semester 2006, Penn State College of Medicine will offer the first master's in homeland security degree with a public health preparedness focus through Penn State's World Campus, the University's online education program. Penn State's Board of Trustees approved the degree today (March 18).
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