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Lock Haven Campus Community Helps Local Families in Need Through the Annual Adopt A Family Program
The Lock Haven Community Service Office recently hosted its annual Adopt A Family project in partnership with the Salvation Army in Lock Haven. Members of the Lock Haven campus community were asked to...
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A Desire to Help Others Drives Mansfield’s Dai Davis
MANSFIELD, PA – When Dai Davis began her academic journey at Mansfield, a Commonwealth University, her goal was to help others by becoming a nurse. But through course work, she soon found that nursing wasn’t the right career path. Instead, a class in social work led her to change her major and chart a new way to help others. “I learned that my desire to help others was through empowerment and advocacy,” Davis said. “Addiction: Assessment, Treatment, and Prevent was the first social work course that I enrolled in, and it opened my eyes to how I really wanted to help people.”
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Mansfield University Social Work Students Donate Gifts to Local Families
MANSFIELD, Pa. – The Social Work Club and the Phi Alpha Social Work Honor Society of Mansfield, a Commonwealth University, brightened the holiday season for two local families. Members of the club and...
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Lock Haven President’s Commission on the Status of Women Supports Female Students with Donation to Haven Cupboard
The Lock Haven President’s Commission on the Status of Women (PCSW) regularly supports various campus initiatives that adhere to its mission – to provide equity for women on campus, including students...
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Lock Haven Campus Community Donates to Haven Cupboard During Annual Hunger Bowl Event
REPRESENTATIVES FROM SMITH HALL ACCEPT THEIR AWARD FOR WINNING THE 2022 HUNGER BOWL. The Community Service Office at Lock Haven, part of Commonwealth University, hosted its annual Hunger Bowl...
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Lock Haven Students Plants Orchard to Combat Food Insecurity
In a hidden patch of space outside the Fairview Suites on Commonwealth University's Lock Haven campus, grows a solution to help combat food insecurity. In September, Lock Haven biology faculty member...
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Lock Haven Alpha Sigma Tau Chapter Honored with National Award
Following the chapter's Centennial last semester, Alpha Sigma Tau's Zeta Chapter at Lock Haven was honored with the Elizabeth Wilson Excellence Award at the sorority's national convention held in...
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Coaching students through life's transitions
To Ebony Taylor ‘12/'13M, Bloom felt like home the first time she was on campus, especially after she bumped into a former school classmate from the boarding school she had attended. It all just felt...
English Professor Participates in National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute
Commonwealth University-Lock Haven English professor, Tracey Cummings, recently participated in the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, "Transcendentalism and Social Reform...
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Social work students hold successful toy drive for local children’s hospital
There will be some added holiday cheer for Geisinger’s Janet Weis Children’s Hospital this season courtesy of Bloomsburg University’s Social Work Club, which collected more than 85 toys this fall through its annual toy drive.