Penn State Greater Allegheny opened the remodeled fitness center in March 2010. New amenities include a large aerobics room and locker rooms that are complete with showers and saunas.
To add variety to workouts, individual yoga mats, resistance bands, medicine balls and jump ropes were purchased.
Penn State Greater Allegheny has been accepted by Sigma Beta Delta to form the Penn State Greater Allegheny Chapter of Sigma Beta Delta, an international honor society in business, management and administration.
The purposes of Sigma Beta Delta are to encourage and recognize scholarship and achievement among students of business, management and administration, and to encourage and promote personal and professional improvement and a life distinguished by honorable service to humankind.
Penn State Greater Allegheny recently hired a new women's basketball coach. Louis V. Zadecky of Belle Vernon, Pa., began his new position on Feb. 1.
The women's basketball program began at Penn State Greater Allegheny in the 2007-08 academic year. The team has a 25-game schedule in 2011. Next year, the campus will host a tip-off tournament that includes Lourdes College in Ohio, Pitt-Titusville and Bennett College.
Penn State Greater Allegheny University Police in cooperation with Penn State University Park will offer "The Five Outs." This safety training on February 24, offered at 12:15 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. in the Ostermayer Room of the Student Community Center will provide information to employees that will increase their chances of survival in a hostage or active shooter situation. Assistant Chief William Donahoe from University Park will present the training beginning with a video followed by a discussion. The video, "Active Shooter," was produced by Penn State University.
Penn State Greater Allegheny has begun working on an Emergency Operations Plan and a Business Continuity Plan. The University contracted Beck Disaster Recovery (BDR) to develop the plans for University Park and all campuses. The Emergency Operations plan will outline actions that should be taken for various emergencies ranging from loss of electricity, water, or natural gas, severe weather related emergencies, bomb threats to an active shooter on campus.
Penn State Greater Allegheny will recognize the commemoration of one of the greatest civil rights leader and activist of all time, Dr. Martin Luther King. The night is themed "How would today be different had not Martin Luther King lead the civil rights movement?" Enjoy a night of celebration and remembrance from 6-8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, January 18th in the Fitness and Cultural Center. Light refreshments will be provided. Come witness the past, present, and future from a man who changed the nation.
Professor Ronald H. Linden will be speaking on Human Rights and Changes in Eastern Europe as part of
the campus's Globalization and Sustainability Speaker Series.
The talk, entitled "1989: The Meaning and Consequences of the Year of the Fall," will focus on changes in Eastern Europe after the fall of Communism and the Soviet Untion.
The lecture will be held at 12:15 p.m. in the Ostermayer Room of the Student Community Center.
On December 10, the J. Clarence Kelly Library was one of the many hosts to the day's write-a-thon to encourage Human Rights causes. The 2010 "Write for Rights" write-a-thon, hosted by Amnesty International, was declared as the largest human rights events, and for reference librarian Rachel Masilamani, the timing couldn't have been better.