Four Penn Staters set to participate in 2022 Beijing Olympics

Penn State will once again be represented on the world stage as top athletes and coaches as the 2022 Beijing Olympics open. Four participants with Penn State ties will represent two countries in the Winter Games. For exclusive content and information on Penn State’s Olympians, visit GoPSUsports.com’s Olympics website. The opening ceremonies for the 2022…

Finance major receives scholarship for service to African American community

A Penn State World Campus student has been awarded a Penn State scholarship that recognizes students for their service to the African American community. Sarah Estime, who is pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Finance, is one of the recipients of the 2022 Fannie Lou Hamer and W.E.B. DuBois Service Scholarship. Breiuana White, a student at…

Career advice from an employer

The Career Services team at Penn State World Campus has created a new series of videos that share career and job search advice from someone whose role involves assisting dozens of small businesses in a wide range of human resources areas, including the hiring process. The collection includes five brief videos — each less than…

Alumna promotes privacy and information security at Penn State

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Holly Swires, a recent Penn State World Campus graduate who is the chief privacy officer and assistant chief information security officer at the University, formed her interest in information security and privacy later in her career. Swires earned a bachelor’s in criminal justice from Penn State in 2005 and gained experience…

U.S. News ranking include Penn State World Campus graduate, bachelor’s programs

Penn State World Campus has been included in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report’s Best Online Programs rankings. The annual rankings, which were released January 25, placed Penn State World Campus on lists for graduate degree programs, including engineering, business, education, and information technology; bachelor’s degree programs; and the best programs for veterans. Here are the full…

First student to graduate from spatial data science master’s program

Every summer, there are reports of sharks lurking off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Karen Dedinsky, a graduate student at Penn State, was wondering if she could use publicly available data about the sharks to predict where they might show up. She took on that project, creating statistical models and geographic visualizations for the…

15 years of small courses, student opportunities for criminal justice program

More than 700 students have completed the Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice program through Penn State World Campus since it was first offered 15 years ago. Online education was still relatively new when the program began in 2006, and not everyone was sure that taking the program online made sense, said Shaun Gabbidon, distinguished…

There now have been 30,000 all-time graduates from Penn State World Campus

This fall’s commencement at Penn State marks a significant milestone for Penn State World Campus: the graduation of more than 30,000 students since it formed in 1998. On Saturday, December 18, during the University’s fall commencement exercises, Penn State awarded degrees to 1,499 graduates who pursued their education through World Campus. It is the largest…