BU students jumped into the spirit of giving this holiday season after a late November 2012 shooting at the Hispanic Center in the Lehigh Valley killed one person and left four injured. The tragedy struck close to home for a group of education majors who participated in a practicum in the Bethlehem and Easton school [...]
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Today’s social media reunited members of a Bloomsburg State College vocal group who performed together more than three decades ago. The result was a reunion concert at the Ocean City (N.J.) Tabernacle in July 2012, led by the Madrigal Singers’ former director Richard “Dick” Stanislaw. After Jamie Heckman Rickenbach ’80 created a Facebook page for [...]
View PostThree College of Education graduates share their thoughts on today’s most significant, non-budgetary challenge to education. Jon Andes ’75 Superintendent of Schools Worcester County Public Schools, Newark, Md. In order to achieve, sustain and advance success, every instructional leader – whether classroom teacher, administrator or staff – must first light the spark of belief [...]
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Families have long searched for effective and affordable medical care. Just as free or reduced-cost clinics help those who cannot afford regular doctor visits today, residents of Pennsylvania’s anthracite coal region found their own ways to help those without access to medical care, beginning in the earliest days of mining communities. Karol Kovalovich Weaver ’92, [...]
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While Joe Jacques ’74 was building his business and raising a family with his wife, Joy, he remembered Bloomsburg University as the “kind of campus that is small and personal, a place to meet good friends, a comfortable atmosphere.” An opportunity to reconnect with the university five years ago showed him, although the university has [...]
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