For its 2020 #GivingTuesday project, Penn State Scranton is raising funds for its alternative break trips and myriad community service projects, which campus students have remained focused on even as the COVID-19 pandemic continues.
Penn State Scranton will again appeal to the generosity of its vast network of supporters as it participates in the University’s sixth #GivingTuesday initiative. This year’s #GivingTuesday will take place from 6:55 p.m. EST — 18:55 in military time, a nod to the year of Penn State's founding — on Nov. 30 until midnight on Dec. 1. For its 2020 #GivingTuesday project, Penn State Scranton is raising funds for its alternative break trips and myriad community service projects.
Continuing a time-honored tradition, Penn State Scranton held a virtual version of its annual Faculty and Staff Recognition Awards on Monday, Nov. 23, honoring several recent retirees, recognizing employees for longtime service, and rewarding faculty and staff excellence.
Senior Kristi Cucura filled out the tags for two unidentified migrants. On the one tag, she wrote “peace,” with hopes that the person’s soul “would find peace in the afterlife despite not finding peace on this earth.”
Penn State Scranton senior Julia Fessenden wrote quotes from several poets on the back of her toe tags, stating she did so because, "I felt my own words were inadequate."
Penn State Scranton senior Julia Fessenden wrote quotes from several poets on the back of her toe tags, saying she did so because, “I felt as though my own words were inadequate.”
The Art Alley gallery space at University Park's HUB-Robeson Center is one of 150 locations throughout the world hosting installations for the Hostile Terrain 94 art project sponsored by the Undocumented Migration Project. Students in Penn State Scranton Lecturer in Art Corianne Thompson's studio art and art history courses participated in the project, filling out toe tags meant to represent the thousands of migrants who have died at the U.S.-Mexico border.
The Art Alley gallery space at University Park's HUB-Robeson Center is one of 150 locations throughout the world hosting installations for the Hostile Terrain 94 art project sponsored by the Undocumented Migration Project.
