Teacher Education Unit earns national accreditation

Penn State Harrisburg’s commitment to achieve national accreditation of its professional academic programs whenever the opportunity exists has reached an historic milestone.

The college has just been informed that its Teacher Education Unit, which consists of undergraduate and graduate programs, has earned full accreditation from the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE).

Web 2.0 and ‘Project Unity’ presentation Dec. 4

Web 2.0 has ushered in a new wave of social computing that enables teams to collaborate, share information, and create new services online. Lockheed Martin’s “Project Unity” is one such example.

Conceived as a way of applying Web 2.0 technologies for “mission success,” Project Unity is a social computing ecosystem that integrates Google enterprise search appliance, Microsoft’s Windows SharePoint Services, and Newsgator’s Enterprise Server.

Coral reef study tour information session December 9

Educators and environmentalists interested in studying coral reefs can take advantage of a Penn State Harrisburg Continuing Education-sponsored study tour to Honduras in July 2009.

The July 1 to 11 educational program, an outreach service of the college’s School of Behavioral Sciences and Education, will examine coral reefs and coral reef habitats, whale sharks, mangroves, flora and fauna, and human activity on the island of Utila, a part of the Bay Islands Archipelago, 30 miles off the Caribbean coast.

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