Students and members of the Penn State Lehigh Valley campus community took part in the Annual MLK Jr Day of Service on Jan. 20 where they volunteered for the 11th Annual Ecumenical Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. program and community meal, which was free for the community. Held at the St. James U.C.C. Sanctuary in Allentown, students assisted in preparing and serving the lunch.
Students in Lambda Pi Eta (LPH), with the support of Corporate Communication Degree Program Coordinator Bob Wolfe, volunteered at Second Harvest Food Bank for Free Friday on November 8, 2019. LPH members helped clients select items for their food pantries and packed it into their trucks. LPH is the National Communication Association's official honor society at four-year colleges and universities. LPH has more than 500 active chapters at four-year colleges and universities nationwide. The PSU-LV Chapter is co-advised by Beth Michalec and Bob Wolfe.
For the third consecutive year, rising seniors from Easton Area High School were given the opportunity to gain real-world work experience through the Easton Employability Experience, a grant-funded program brought about by a partnership between Penn State Lehigh Valley, Easton Area School District, the Lehigh Valley Workforce Development Board, and CareerForce.
Penn State IT awarded the 2019 Learning Tool Interoperability (LTI) Advantage Contributors Institutional Leadership Award at the IMS Global Learning Impact Institute in San Diego on May 23, 2019. Pictured (left to right): Tony Anderson, Penn State learning tools and learning management system manager, TLT director of operations Terry O’Heron, and learning tools project manager Kristen Lytle at the IMS Global Learning Impact Institute in San Diego.
The march held April 16 on the Lehigh Valley campus was an opportunity for men to come together to raise awareness of, and peacefully protest against sexual violence.
The campus community came out for the fifth annual Walk a Mile in Her Shoes event held April 16 at the Lehigh Valley campus. The march in red heels started at the sports court.
