As a military spouse and working student, Lauren Henderson has a lot to manage. Read below to get her advice on how best to manage her visual arts course work, connect with fellow students and create relationships with faculty.
Campus Life
Penn State World Campus encourages you to join one or more newly created interest groups designed to help develop new student organizations.
Plan ahead to make sure you’ll be ready to graduate and celebrate with Penn State World Campus.
Do you know about the many resources, clubs, and organizations available to you as a World Campus student? Following are a few of our activities and resources for you to explore.
Have you ever been grocery shopping while wearing your favorite Penn State sweatshirt, when someone shouts “We Are” at you? Hopefully, you responded with a “Penn State!” But maybe you had no clue why someone randomly yelled at you for simply wearing your school’s logo. Not everyone knows what this phrase means to Penn Staters,…
Many students and prospective students often ask how Penn State World Campus compares to THE Penn State. Well, they are the same! This is the real Penn State. You are taking the same classes with the same curriculum developed by the same professors who teach courses at our brick and mortar campuses. You can expect…
Members of the Penn State World Campus community can help prevent violence both in the online/learning space and in their offline environment through the Stand for State initiative. Stand for State is Penn State’s bystander intervention initiative focusing on sexual and relationship violence, mental health concerns, acts of bias, and risky drinking and drug use.…
With more than 645,000 Penn State alumni, chances are that you’ll run into someone from this network of thousands, whether you’re traveling down the block or around the globe! You can join this network as a World Campus student or as a graduate, and reap many benefits at the different stages of your educational experience…
The Penn State laureate, an honorary position established in 2008, is a full-time faculty member in the humanities or arts who is assigned half-time for one academic year to bring an enhanced level of social, cultural, artistic, and human perspective and awareness to a broad array of audiences. As this year’s laureate, Susan Russell,…
Join us in welcoming Dr. Eric J. Barron as Penn State’s 18th president. Dr. Barron, who will take office at Penn State on May 12, 2014, most recently served as president of Florida State University, and has served in the past as dean of Penn State’s College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. Read more about…