2020 Ship holiday gift guide: Eight alumni-sourced ideas

Forget a generic gift from the big box store. Keep your holiday shopping in the Ship family this season! From a children’s book by a distinguished principal to local soap handmade for sensitive skin, alumni all across the country offer creative and crafty gift options to keep your holiday spending Ship-centric in 2020. COFFEE FOR THE…

Reminisce with Ship—100 Years of Yearbooks Now Online

This story first appeared in the Shippensburg University Magazine.  The 1917 to 2018 versions of The Cumberland, Shippensburg University’s yearbook, are now available to the public in the digitized archives. Christy Fic, university archivist and special collections librarian, said the digitization project took a year-and-a-half to complete. “Most people think that digitization is simple—scan the…

Send congrats to Ship winter graduates

Record and enter your personal congratulations for Shippensburg University’s winter graduating class. Completing the final chapter of your college journey during a pandemic is no small feat. Yet, the approximately 240 undergraduate, 79 graduate, and 4 doctoral students who are tentatively approved to graduate this December 2020 and January 2021 did just that. Despite all…

A message from President Carter: Fall 2020 semester review

Dear Students, Parents, Faculty and Staff, We made it! We set sail together into uncharted waters this Fall, not knowing what to expect. Some said we couldn’t do it, shouldn’t do it, but we did. We learned what makes our campus community great, and in short, it is you. We will forever remember this semester,…

The Luhrs Center presents Celtic Thunder Christmas Virtual Show

Bringing together their affinity for a great popular song with outstanding live performances, Irishmen Damian McGinty, Keith Harkin, Paul Byrom, Ryan Kelly and Scotsman George Donaldson of Celtic Thunder pay homage to cherished Holiday favorites in their ONLINE Holiday concert Celtic Thunder Christmas. Celtic Thunder Christmas offers an amazing and nostalgic performance by the group,…

CLUS partnership with Cumberland County featured on SmartTalk

SmartTalk featured Cumberland County climate action group, a partnership between Center for Land Use and Sustainability’s, Cumberland Conservation Collaborative, the South Mountain Partnership, Cumberland County, Center for Sustainability at Dickinson College and Carlisle Borough. Beginning with a series of three forums, the Cumberland County climate action group will look at the changing climate, and how…

Learning to soar: Alumna uses flight to help students succeed

This story first appeared in the Shippensburg University Magazine. Encouraging students to soar high—literally and figuratively—is a key to student success for Barbara (King) Walters-Phillips ’71. She has inspired thousands of students and teachers nationwide with her aeronautics workshops, classes, and “first flight” experiences over the past three decades. Her work and enthusiasm recently led…