Penn State students to get nearly $1,000 reduction on dorm, meal plan fees
Updated Jan 09, 2021;
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The reductions combined amount to about $950 for both a standard double room and a mid-level meal plan.
In December, Penn State President Eric Barron announced the revised academic calendar in light of surging COVID-19 cases and a state advisory to delay bringing students back for in-person classes. Trustees this week approved the resulting reduction.
As initially set, a standard double room was to cost $3,427 for the semester, and a midlevel meal plan would require $2,449 per semester, Penn State officials said. The total for both would have been $5,876 for the semester.
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Joe Dolinsky
January 07, 2021
HAZLETON, Pa. – They may have been over 1,500 miles apart, but students from Penn State and Universidad Central del Este (UCE) in the Dominican Republic didn’t let distance get in the way of a good idea.
More than two dozen students learned how to develop and refine business ideas during the Idea Design Lab, a collaborative program hosted during Global Entrepreneurship Week in November by the Hazleton LaunchBox supported by Pasco L. Schiavo, Esq.
The course, which included students from Penn State Hazleton, Penn State Abington and UCE, was held synchronously over Zoom in three, two-hour sessions and challenged participants to expand their critical thinking skills through brainstorming and other interactive exercises.
About the Hazleton LaunchBox
Located at 13 W. Broad St. in Hazleton, the Hazleton LaunchBox is a no-cost startup accelerator and co-working space designed to provide early-stage startup companies with the support and resources needed to build a sustainable business and a viable plan for growth.
The LaunchBox is a signature program of the Invent Penn State initiative, a commonwealth-wide system to spur economic development, job creation, and student career success. The initiative, launched by Penn State President Eric Barron in 2015, redefines the University’s land-grant mission to include entrepreneurship and innovation programs, including the development of “innovation hubs” in Penn State Commonwealth Campus communities across the state.
Penn State President Eric Barron
released a statement late Wednesday night condemning the acts of domestic terrorists who stormed the United States Capitol to disrupt Congress’s debate of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory.
Wednesday’s events
left at least four people dead, including one woman shot in the chest by Capitol Police. In his statement, Barron denounced the attacks and reiterated that violence is “never the answer.”
“The violence and lawlessness that occurred at the United States Capitol Wednesday afternoon are an affront to the values of our country and another distressing result of the erosion of civil discourse – the civil discourse that is a hallmark of the United States’ democracy,” Barron wrote. “I know many in our community have witnessed and watched this event unfold with intense sorrow, anger and fear.”