Dr. Luis Melara, Mathematics was recently appointed Chair of the Diversity Advisory Council (DAC) for the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). The DAC addresses policy issues with SIAM related to underrepresented groups. SIAM is an international community with over 14,000 individual members. Find out more here: https://www.siam.org/about-siam/committees/diversity-advisory-committee
Dr. Allison C. Carey, Sociology and Anthropology, and Director of MS in Organizational Development and Leadership, along with Dr. Sara Green (University of South Florida) and Dr. Laura Mauldin (University of Connecticut) co-edited Volume 13 of the book series Research in Social Science and Disability, entitled Disability in the Time of Pandemic (Emerald Press, 2023). In this collection authors from…
Dr. Brian Wentz, Accounting and Information Systems & Analytics, published an article, “Academic Libraries and Their Legal Obligation for Content Accessibility,” in the journal First Monday. Read it here: https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/12892
Dr. Steven Burg, History joined a panel at the American Historical Association’s Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on January 6, 2023, entitled, “Out of Campus: A History of LGBTQ+ Activism at Pennsylvania Colleges and Universities.” At the session, held at the William Way LGBT Community Center, Burg shared the work of the Shippensburg University LGBTQ+…
Drs. Nathan Goates, Karen Johnson, Kirk Moll, Suzanne Morin, Toru Sato, Matthew Shupp, and David Weaver from the departments of Management; Marketing; Entrepreneurship; Academic Engagement and Exploratory Studies; Library; Psychology; Counselor Education; and History respectively, provided enhanced advising in the classroom to students in their UNIV 101- First Year Seminar as participants in a pilot initiative to continue…
Dear Campus Community, Each February, our campus community joins the greater Shippensburg community to celebrate Ship Be Kind Month. There are no small acts of kindness. Every individual act of kindness can have a big impact on the lives of others and contributes to the sense of belonging that we strive to create at Ship. From holding a door…
Early Warning Grades (EWGs) will be due Friday, March 3, at 4 p.m. All grades will be processed online. We will be enabling the ability to submit EWGs for all students on Tuesday, February 21st. As in the past, we strongly encourage the submission of EWGs for all students. 100-level courses and those 200-level courses…
The spring Registrar’s Report is now available online.
The Pennsylvania Department of Education awarded Shippensburg University a $100,000 Prep2Practice grant that will support the recruitment and retention of middle school and high school students from underrepresented populations who wish to pursue a career in math education. According to the US Department of Education, there is a shortage of secondary mathematics teachers across Pennsylvania…
The African American Organization and the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs invites you to attend the 35th Annual March of Humanity on Thursday, January 26 at 3:30 p.m. in Old Main Chapel. This event celebrates the life and legacy of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The march will begin at the Fountain in front…