Administration

POGIL and clickers bring learning to classroom

Clickers and POGIL may not sound like academic terms, but a faculty member at Penn State Harrisburg is utilizing them to enhance learning and knowledge in his chemistry classrooms.

If you’ve seen the TV program "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," you’re familiar with personal response systems — those clickers the audience uses to register their votes. Associate Professor of Chemistry Thomas Eberlein is pairing clickers in the classroom with a student-centered active learning technique called Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL) to encourage students to learn to reason through problems.

Course on American childhood will include student-produced documentaries

Is there such a thing as a typical American childhood?

Can a study of the historical and cultural trends of the American childhood reveal society’s underlying values?

Alumni named president, CEO of Fulton Financial

Penn State Harrisburg graduate E. Philip Wenger has been promoted to president and chief operating officer of Fulton Financial Corp., the company announced December 31.

A resident of Pequea, Wenger has served as senior executive vice president for the Lancaster-based financial holding company since 2006.

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