From EUP

Ms. Angela Burrows has joined Edinboro University as Assistant Vice President for Communications, Community and Public Relations, and Marketing. She began her work at EU on Sept. 11.

Focusing on leadership and professional development, Edinboro University hosted a forum and orientation for the University’s first ATHENA Connections College Leadership (ACCL) Program.

Safe city streets, preserved business and cultural lives for more than 6,000 part-time and permanent residents of Edinboro and a neighborhood watch program have helped the Borough of Edinboro earn the No. 15 spot on the SafeWise Report’s Top 30 Safest College Towns in America.

From Sept. 23-30, Edinboro University and the surrounding community will celebrate the pop culture icon Harry Potter through philosophical discussions, professional presentations, games and contests, music, food and more.

Demonstrating Edinboro University’s resolve to remain a vibrant Institution of Higher Education, President H. Fred Walker today unveiled a 10-year plan that provides a strategy for enhancing student success and future growth in our region.

During the fall session of the 2017 Al Stone Lecture Series, Edinboro University’s active and retired faculty and individuals with special expertise will discuss these topics and more in the six-part series that begins Sept. 7 in the Diebold Center for the Performing Arts. The fall series will be featured each Thursday in September and October beginning at 9:30 a.m.

Edinboro University is committed to meeting the needs of all our students while providing a high-quality and affordable learning experience. We also serve as advocates for our students who come from diverse backgrounds across the entire globe.

Join Edinboro University for the 24th Annual Edinboro Highland Games & Scottish Festival, which will be held Sept. 6-10 on the picturesque EU campus and various venues around Edinboro.

The leadership teams of both Edinboro University and the Edinboro University Chapter of the Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties (APSCUF) have worked together to avert the retrenchment of faculty in the coming year by identifying savings and efficiencies through attrition and other opportunities to align faculty work with Edinboro’s commitment to student success.

Edinboro University welcomed 1,100 first-year and transfer students to campus today for move-in festivities, highlighted by New Student Convocation – an official ceremony commemorating the inclusion of incoming Fighting Scots into the Class of 2021. During the ceremony, hundreds of family members, friends and community members supported students as they took a pledge to take an active role in their education and to be engaged outside of the classroom.

Edinboro University professor Dale Tshudy has published more than 30 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters about lobsters and other crustaceans, and has been cited in dozens of magazines and newspaper articles.

Edinboro University’s Early Childhood and Reading Department has been awarded a $297,500 grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) and Department of Human Services (DHS) to expand operations for the University’s Pre-K Counts preschool program.

Following the proposed transfer of work announced by GE potentially impacting several hundred employees in the Erie region, Edinboro University today announced the formation of a response team at the University to identify and coordinate resources and support for the workers.

Before this summer, Hannah McDonald had never traveled outside of the United States. The Journalism and Public Relations major was looking for an opportunity to see the world and to develop her interviewing skills. Thanks to an annual trip for honors students hosted by Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education (PASSHE), McDonald realized that opportunity with an educational experience in Central America.

Dr. Scott E. Miller, an Edinboro University administrator who joined the University faculty in 2010, has been named the Dean of EU’s College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (CAHSS).

A crowd of Edinboro University administrators, faculty, staff and students and veterans of the United States Armed Forces celebrated the bittersweet but time-honored tradition of changing command of the Fighting Scots Battalion ROTC program on July 19.

Dr. R. James Wertz, an Edinboro University alumnus (’02) and faculty member since 2005, has been named the associate dean of EU’s College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences.

Last year, we undertook an important effort to better understand the challenges facing the State System—the same challenges facing many universities around the country. The Board of Governors launched a strategic review of the System’s 14 universities and the Office of the Chancellor—with the intent of ensuring our ability to provide a high-quality, affordable experience.

New faces, new places and new discoveries come along with any first-year college experience. Although it can be a stressful time for incoming students, it’s also an exciting period of self-discovery.

Six Edinboro University graduate students hosted students from Erie’s Public Schools during a summer English-Language Learner (ELL) literacy clinic. Children ages 7-11 from Erie’s elementary schools developed writing, spelling, reading and speaking skills at the week-long clinic from June 26-30.