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The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) honored ��Ӱֱ�� State College as a leader among institutions of higher education for its support of volunteering, service-learning, and civic engagement. ��Ӱֱ�� State was admitted to the for engaging its students, faculty, and staff in meaningful service that achieves measurable results in the community.

On Sunday, Sept. 11, ��Ӱֱ�� State capped three days of observances commemorating the tenth anniversary of 9-11 with a two-mile road race/walk to honor and celebrate the American heroes of 9-11.

Members of the ��Ӱֱ�� State College community conducted a solemn ceremony Friday in remembrance of the 10-year anniversary of 9-11 and the attacks on the twin towers of the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the plane crash in Shanksville (crash site of United 93), the three-pronged terrorist attack that shook our nation.

Friends and colleagues of ��Ӱֱ�� State College employee Bonnie Perkins, who was seriously injured in a motorcycle accident in July, gathered recently to present the still-hospitalized Bonnie’s husband Mike (who was also injured in the accident) with the proceeds of a benefit held recently in their honor.

��Ӱֱ�� State College will once again welcome alumni and families of current students for Homecoming/Family Weekend 2011, Thursday, Sept. 22-Sunday, Sept. 25, on the ASC campus.

Hundreds of visitors are expected to converge on campus to reconnect with old friends or visit with their students, perhaps for the first time since dropping them off for the fall semester in August.

��Ӱֱ�� State College has announced new faculty hires for fall 2011.

Several new staff members have joined the ��Ӱֱ�� State College community.

Rex Olson, director of Counseling Services at ��Ӱֱ�� State College, served as a discussant at the symposium, “Psychology as a STEM Discipline and as Logos of the Soul: The Critical Necessity of the Humanities for Psychological Science,” at the American Psychological Association Conference in Washington, D.C., in August.

��Ӱֱ�� State College Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Technology Dr. Matthew Lawrence recently was the recipient, along with his co-authors, of a Superior Paper Award 2011 from the American Society of Agricultural & Biological Engineers (ASABE).

The health information technology program at ��Ӱֱ�� State College has been granted continuing accreditation by CAHIM (Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management Education).