Relationships key to success for Lacey Carey

“My freshman year all the professors I had knew my name within the first week of classes. They are amazing and they are always there for you for whatever you need.” It’s safe to say Lacey Carey has felt right at home since joining the Shippensburg University family. She’s made plenty of other students feel…

Morgan Hill: Dual major at a ‘door holding school’

Once Morgan Hill decided accounting was the career path she wanted to follow, she found her way into the Ship family. “I knew the John L. Grove College of Business was an AACSB-accredited business school that could provide me with the accounting program I needed to succeed,” Hill said. Hill is a graduate of Greencastle-Antrim…

Joe Intrieri promoted to principal after finishing flexible doctorate program

Shippensburg University’s joint Educational Leadership, Ed.D. program with Millersville University was brand new when Joe Intrieri applied. “Other colleagues in the educational field personally knew the professor starting the program and spoke highly of them,” Intrieri said. Now a graduate of the program, Intrieri had to defend his dissertation virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.…

Alicia Bruno lauds ‘realness’ of Ship’s educational leadership program

Alicia Bruno is set to finish Shippensburg University’s post-master’s degree certification program in educational leadership in 2021. It’s her first time in a program at Ship. “Having attended two other universities, I assumed that at some point I might not be fully satisfied or feel as though I wasn’t challenged enough. Shippensburg definitely proved me…

Connections, community feel highlight Shawn Pokrop’s Ship experience

“The thing that drew me to Shippensburg University was the rich history in the area. Shippensburg is so close to so many historical places like Gettysburg.” Shawn Pokrop knows what he enjoys. He’s a member of Ship’s class of 2022 in the History, Public History Concentration, B.A. and Anthropology Minor programs. Once he joined the…

Rosalia Cappadora ’20: Ship introduced me to something new every day

Rosalia Cappadora graduated from Shippensburg University in May of 2020. Her Ship experience allowed her to achieve a number of goals and score a few in the process. A three-sport athlete at Manchester Valley High School, Cappadora joined Ship’s decorated field hockey program. She racked up numerous honors as a Raider and joined the Student…

Alumnus is beefing up the COVID-19 conversation @steak_umm

Who’d have thought that the meatiest coronavirus information to sweep the Twitterverse would come from, well, the voice of frozen meat sheets? When coronavirus took hold of the US around March 13, Jesse Bender ’97, account director at Steak-umm PR partner Allebach Communications, and the strategy team took a step back to listen. “We heard…

3 programs in 3 years: Christie Katora’s path to success

Christie Katora grew up in Newville and graduated from Big Spring High School. She’s now a secondary special education teacher in her home district after completing three Shippensburg University programs in as many years. Katora received her first bachelor’s degree from Hood College in 1996. She next worked for a manufacturing plant as a customer…