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South Campus Gateway
Wilkes University announces a $3.5 million South Campus Gateway initiative. The three-part project includes improvements and additions that will transform Wilkes and the streets bordering it into a park-like campus in the heart of the City of Wilkes-Barre. The project combines University resources with Pennsylvania Department of Transportation and Department of Community and Economic Development funds to improve pedestrian safety, alleviate traffic congestion and beautify the campus and surrounding neighborhood.
Wilkes University President Patrick F. Leahy said the South Campus Gateway will make the campus safer and more attractive, increasing Wilkes’ unique appeal as a university that offers programs comparable to a large, research university in the mentoring culture
Prior to hearing Green s update on the incentive plan, trustees unanimously approved a resolution presented by board President Skeeter Hubert asking that a new vaccine eligibility group be created for teachers and district employees to give them priority after the existing Phase 1A and 1B sections focused on frontline workers, those over 65, and those with underlying health conditions. This entire time, I’ve been hearing our leaders, nationally and through the state, call our teachers heroes . but yet, when the vaccine comes out, you’ve got to wait in line like everybody else, Hubert said. I’m not trying to be critical, but it bothered me, and it bothered us as a board that there was no action behind the words that were being provided.