Talented female athletes compete on college fields, courts, pools and diamonds throughout the year. But this was not always the case. The struggle by women for athletic opportunities at Bloomsburg and nationwide is a story of perseverance and determination. From the Normal School’s earliest days until the 1920s, athletic opportunities for women at Bloomsburg were [...]
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Small Town U.S.A. Bloomsburg has always been near and dear to me for many reasons. For one, I was born and pretty much raised here, moving only across the river during my earlier school years. After attending Bloomsburg University, I was fortunate to find employment with the Pennsylvania Downtown Center, a nonprofit organization now [...]
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Wordsworth. Shakespeare. Virginia Woolf. James Joyce. As he ticks off the names of well-known poets and authors, it’s easy to imagine James Brown teaching literature and composition at Charleston Southern University. A bit of the English professor remains in Brown’s second year as dean of Bloomsburg University’s College of Liberal Arts, along with posters for [...]
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Sally Shankweiler Daley began to doubt her decision to major in computer science at Bloomsburg University when she found herself struggling. Her adviser, Professor Charles Hoppel, now retired, wouldn’t let her consider switching majors. “Studies of women in college have found that when a female went into a guidance counselor’s office and said, ‘I’m having [...]
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Collecting and analyzing data to benefit the local economy, researching what shelters and agencies can do to help the rural homeless and offering real-world experience to Bloomsburg University students: BU’s Center for Community Research and Consulting has become a valuable resource to the town and university before reaching its first anniversary. “The center was created [...]
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