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New collaboration expands educational opportunities in Pennsylvania

Penn State’s Commonwealth Campuses and the state’s community colleges have announced a new collaboration aimed at expanding educational opportunities in Pennsylvania and removing barriers to degree completion among college students. The collaboration builds upon long-standing relationships between the campuses and the community colleges and a shared commitment to access and affordability in higher education. 
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Atterholt and Cruz to present ‘academic witnessing’ research at Feb. 12 webinar

Penn State Shenango's Roxanne Atterholt and Laura Cruz from Penn State’s Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence will present their work on how to encourage and support resiliency in higher education at a webinar on Feb. 12. They co-authored a paper, titled “Shock Waves: Academic Witnessing as Resiliency Practice in Higher Education,” on the topic that was published as feature article in the Journal of Faculty Development.