Selected Summer 2012 and Academic Year 2012-13 EOPC Funded Programs

Summer 2012 Programs

Pre-College Programs - for pre-college or first-year students

Program Title: Duty to Degree – Helping Vets Succeed
Campus: York
Project Director: Sharon Christ
Phone: (717) 771-4048
Email: sem1@psu.edu
Program Description: This program helps veterans of the armed services learn about higher educational opportunities in college and at Penn State York and become acclimated to the culture and values of higher education.

Program Title: Pre-Freshman Engineering and Science (PREF)
Campus: University Park
Project Director: Amy Freeman
Phone: (814) 865-7138
Email: afreeman@engr.psu.edu
Program Description: PREF is a rigorous academic enrichment and orientation program specifically developed to bolster the retention of first year students entering curriculums in engineering and science at the Penn State University Park
Campus. The components of PREF accommodate the academic, social, cultural, and adjustment needs of these students.

Program Title: Schuylkill Summer Bridge
Campus: Schuylkill
Project Director: Debra Simpson-Buchanan
Phone: (570) 385-6254
Email: ddb5@psu.edu
Program Description: The Summer Bridge Academy is designed to assist first-year students entering Penn State Schuylkill in the fall. The program works collaboratively with students to engage in an ongoing transition process from high school to college. The process focuses on academic, social networking, and personal development to create a foundation for persistence towards a timely graduation.

Program Title: Summer Experience in the Eberly College of Science
Campus: University Park
Project Director: Jody Markley
Phone: (814) 863-4292
Email: jlm110@psu.edu
Program Description: This program is a collaboration between the Eberly College of Science and Upward Bound Math and Science and provides program students with research experiences with Penn State faculty in core areas of science for six weeks during the summer.

Program Title: Summer College Opportunity in Education (SCOPE)
Campus: University Park
Project Director: María Schmidt
Phone: (814) 867-1521
Email: mjs125@psu.edu
Program Description: SCOPE is a four-week academic intensive program for high school sophomores from multicultural backgrounds interested in a career in teaching, counseling, special education, rehabilitation, or educational administration. SCOPE aims to promote and increase the recruitment, participation and success rates of underrepresented students in higher education and more specifically in the Education field.

Academic Year 2012-13 Programs

College Student Programs - support programs for first-year or continuing undergraduate students

Program Title: Asian American Students in Action (AASIA)
Campus: University Park
Project Director: Ed McKeon
Phone: (814) 865-1773
Email: eam214@psu.edu
Program Description: This mentoring program is designed to address the retention of Asian and Pacific American (APA) students at University Park. Although University Park has many mentoring programs, none specifically address the need to retain and graduate APA undergraduate students.
Historically, this lack of support stems from the labeling of APA students as a “model minority” and the many biases against APA students due to that label. However, at Penn State, APA students still lag behind white students in their retention and graduation rates. The goal of the program is to help incoming APA students make a successful transition from high school to college.

Program Title: Bunton-Waller Fellow/Lendfest Scholars Program
Campus: University Park
Project Director: Hank McCoullum
Phone: (814) 863-0285
Email: hwm1@psu.edu
Program Description: This program supports the transition to Penn State for first-year Bunton-Waller Fellows and Lendfest Scholars.

Program Title: Diversity Grants-in-Aid
Campus: University Park
Project Director: Kelli Burns
Phone: (814) 863-7138
Email: burns@ip.psu.edu
Program Description: Diversity Grants-In-Aid assists students with financial need who are members of underrepresented racial/ethnic groups or have documented disabilities in participating in education abroad. Students should contact the Office of International Programs as soon as they decide they are interested in studying abroad to see whether or not they are eligible for the program. This program also runs during the summer.

Program Title: Jump Start
Campus: Mont Alto
Project Director: Kendra Wolgast
Phone: (717) 749-6045
Email: kwm24@psu.edu
Program Description: This program will help raise the level of academic preparedness for incoming students by enrolling them in online developmental courses during the summer to help prepare them for their fall classes. In the fall, students will continue to receive academic support and will paired with a student mentor.

Program Title: Think Big at PSY in 2012-13
Campus: York
Project Director: Sharon Christ
Phone: (717) 771-4048
Email: sem1@psu.edu
Program Description: This program is a continuation of a summer program, Think Big at PSY (see above), and will continue to build upon the skills students attain in the summer.

Graduate and Medical Student Programs - for prospective graduate and medical students

Program Title: Healthy People Penn State
Campus
Campus: University Park
Project Director: Linda Wray and Joyce Hopson-King
Phone: (814) 865-0764 or (814) 863-1291
Email: law30@psu.edu or juh4@psu.edu
Program Description: Healthy People Penn State is a research conference and expo sponsored by the College of Health and Human Development and the School of Nursing. This program, following a competitive application process, will select 20 juniors or seniors from traditionally underrepresented groups for a four-day program at the University Park
Campus. Students will learn about graduate study in disciplines whose mission is to improve the health of individuals and communities, as mandated in the nation’s Health People 2020 Plan. The program will expose undergraduates to research in these areas and provide preparation for the graduate application process at Penn State.

Program Title: Recruitment and Retention of Underrepresented Medical and Graduate Students
Campus: Hershey
Project Director: Harjit Singh
Phone: (717) 531-5418
Email: hsingh@psu.edu
Program Description: The goals of this project are the recruitment, matriculation and retention of students in medical and/or graduate school at the College of Medicine. The program will continue the summer research partnership with Lincoln, Cheyney, and Penn State.

Faculty and Staff Programs

Program Title: Engineering a Positive Environment: Professional Development Opportunities
Campus: University Park
Project Director: Jacqueline Gardner
Phone: (814) 865-1831
Email: jkg10@psu.edu
Program Description: This program is designed to support and facilitate positive change in the climate for faculty, staff and administrators in the College of Engineering by developing educational programming and promoting discussion around diversity topics to help enhance diversity proficiency within the college.

Program Title: Opportunity Network for Employment (ONE) Program
Campus: University Park
Project Director: Marianne Karwacki
Phone: (814) 865-0676
Email: mlk6@psu.edu
Program Description: This program, which is a collaboration among Penn State and several community organizations, assists in developing employment opportunities for a diverse population of qualified people with disabilities.

Curricular and Curricular Integration Programs

Program Title: CARE – Culturally Aware; Respectful to Everyone
Campus: DuBois
Project Director: Marly Doty
Phone: (814) 375-4764
Email: mag374@psu.edu
Program Description: This program is an alternative spring break experience for diverse students, including low-income, first-generation, and adult students, to the Navajo Nation in Tuba city, Arizona. The goal of the program is to provide these students with purposeful programming to increase their diversity skills by immersion into a culture other than their own and to promote the value of service learning.

Program Title: Gender Dialogues
Campus: University Park
Project Directors: Laurie Mulvey and Sam Richards
Phone: (814) 865-5692 or (814) 863-7456
Email: worldinconversation@psu.edu
Program Description: The World in Conversation Project (see below) has expanded its dialogues to include an exploration of the culture of relations based on gender. Though the focus of these small group inquiries is open-ended in terms of themes, the topics often involve the subjects of identity, power differentials, sexual conduct and double standards. Methodologically, the conversations are based on encouraging the critical thinking and reflection of each participant in terms of their role in and views of gender differences.

Program Title: World in Conversation Project
Campus: University Park
Project Directors: Laurie Mulvey and Sam Richards
Phone: (814) 865-5692 or (814) 863-7456
Email: worldinconversation@psu.edu
Program Description: The mission of the World in Conversation Project is to create a kind of dialogue about social and cultural issues that invites the unexamined, politically incorrect thoughts of participants to the surface so those thoughts can be submitted to conscious exploration and inquiry.

Welcoming Campus Climate

Program Title: Cultural Empowerment of Women Series
Campus: University Park
Project Director: Carol Eicher
Phone: (814) 863-5071
Email: ece2@psu.edu
Program Description: This program will provide educational and social networking venues for women from diverse racial/ethnic groups in the Pennsylvania Centre Region who have ties to Penn State (employees and family members along with students) to ensure their inclusion and development within the community.

Program Title: Enhancing Diversity Awareness & Sensitivity within Classroom, Community, and Beyond
Campus: Brandywine Project Director: Lisa Yerges
Phone: (610) 892-1211
Email: lrc3@psu.edu
Program Description: This program provides training opportunities for faculty and staff on several topics, including more effectively incorporating diversity connections into the curriculum, the classroom experience with and across disciplines, understanding the ADA, and promoting mutual respect in the workplace.

Program Title: Inclusion and Honor
Campus: Fayette
Project Director: Susan F. Crampton-Frenchik
Phone: (724) 430-4100
Email:sfc13@psu.edu
Program Description: This program promotes a
Campus climate that is safe, healthy and respectful of all people. The program provides students, faculty, staff, and the larger community with multiple opportunities to learn from and interact with each other in a cohesive effort to create and maintain a welcoming and inclusive environment for all.

Program Title: LGBT Network
Campus: University Wide Project Director: Allison Subasic
Phone: (814) 863-7696
Email: afs11@psu.edu
Program Description: The LGBT Network provides a hospitable environment for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons by establishing an identifiable network of persons who can provide support, information, and a safe haven to LGBT persons within the University.

Program Title: World Wide Narratives: Digital Stories of the Penn State Harrisburg Community
Campus: Harrisburg
Project Director: Shivaani Selvaraj
Phone: (717) 948-6623
Email: sas82@psu.edu
Program Description: This program is a collaboration among the Faculty Center for Teaching and Instructional Technology, the Diversity and Educational Equity Committee, Media Commons, Intercultural Affairs, and a wide range of
Campus student organizations. The program highlights the often untold or neglected stories of students, faculty, and staff who come from communities outside the American mainstream through of face-to-face sessions that use online technologies.

Other Programs

Program Title: African American Literature Conference
Campus: University Wide
Project Director: Lovalerie King
Phone: (814) 863-2178
Email: luk13@psu.edu
Program Description: For this year’s biannual conference, the theme will be African American and Afro-Caribbean poetry, past and present. The primary headliner will be Nikky Finney
<http://nikkyfinney.net/>, a recent National Book Award winner.

Program Title: Disability Awareness Month
Campus: University Wide
Project Director: Bill Welsh
Phone: (814) 863-1807
Email: wjw9@psu.edu
Program Description: Disability Awareness Month stresses the theme of “Diversability,” which emphasizes the varying abilities and talents of people with disabilities. The intent of the month is to promote an atmosphere where individuals are comfortable discussing and exploring questions about accessibility, equality, and inclusion for people with disabilities.

Program Title: Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration
Campus: University Wide
Project Director: Marcus Whitehurst
Phone: (814) 865-5906
Email: maw163@psu.edu
Program Description: Penn State annually recognizes the life and legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and many University-sponsored MLK events are funded by EOPC.

Program Title: Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day
Campus: University Wide
Project Director: Connie Tice
Phone: (814) 863-6188
Email: cmr1@psu.edu
Program Description: Penn State’s annual Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day provides a way for girls and boys to examine occupational opportunities and develop a better sense of the career paths they may be interested in.

Program Title: Traditional American Indian Powwow
Campus: University Park
Project Director: John Sanchez
Phone: (814) 863-7994
Email: apache@psu.edu
Program Description: This event brings a powwow comprised of American Indians from across the United States to the Pennsylvania Centre Region.