Lynette Kuhn knows what it’s like to want an education but not have a realistic path back to school. When she found she could earn her bachelor’s degree online, it was the beginning of a transformation. Kuhn’s path to that moment started in cosmetology. She built a career in the trade and found a new…
Dr. Robert Nelson enrolled in a Penn State graduate program while serving full-time in the Army. What followed — for him, and for thousands of soldiers — was extraordinary.
Joe Thompson IV has applied what he learned through his Penn State education to climate action across two states and three continents.
Krysta Ermine has been programming daily for nearly five years and says she is still learning every day.
A master’s degree in geographic information systems (MGIS) from Penn State helped shape the trajectory of Jimmy Kroon’s career. Kroon joined the Delaware Department of Agriculture in 2003 as a summer employee doing fieldwork and building expertise in GIS through field crop surveys for pests and plant diseases. He enrolled in Penn State’s online MGIS…
Jeff Sharp plays a key leadership role as president of Source 21, a specialty metals distributor serving aerospace, defense, medical, and industrial manufacturers across North America. Sharp has built his career through disciplined execution and a long-term approach to building businesses. Sharp’s path to leading the company stemmed from years of experience in global industrial…
Rebecca Schreiber earned a Master of Education in Higher Education from Penn State World Campus in 2024.
Three-time Penn State graduate Teri Spence was a voracious reader as a child. Growing up in extreme poverty in Southwest Missouri, she made her way through the entire set of Funk & Wagnalls encyclopedias — not because anyone told her to, but because she was hungry for a world she couldn’t yet reach. She always…
With both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree earned through Penn State World Campus, Leah Carraway-Justice has built a career at Penn State leading organizational change and transformation.
Shelley Haffner spent her Penn State career turning public health preparedness into real-world protection for thousands of students. Years before a global pandemic reshaped campus life, Haffner recognized the need for a coordinated, community-level strategy to manage infectious disease threats. As the infectious disease manager for Penn State’s University Health Services, she used her graduate…
