Out-of-Class Learning

Engaged Scholarship at Penn State Altoona

What is Engaged Scholarship?

As a Penn State Altoona student, you’ll have a multitude and variety of opportunities to participate in engaged scholarship activities. Engaged scholarship consists of out-of-classroom academic experiences that complement in-class learning, such as study abroad/study away, academic internships, research, and community-based studies.

These academic activities utilize high impact practices that help to broaden and deepen student engagement with their education, strengthen their relationship to their faculty, enhance and refine their career path, and often lead to life-long learning and personal growth. By broadening education to activities outside the traditional classroom, students often experience an enhanced sense of social responsibility, improvement in critical and analytical thinking, and other key educational outcomes.

With the archivist at Bishopsgate library and archive

London Calling

A study abroad trip allows students to experience life in London while increasing their knowledge of British literature, culture, and history.

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Highlight | Spring 2019 Student Showcase

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Cuyler Luck, a junior microbiology major, received the John Sr. and Kimlyn Patishnock Grand Prize for his research, “Identifying Drug-Drug Interactions Between Experimental Antimalarials.”

Libraries' 2019 research prizes honor 13 students at University Park events

Penn State University Libraries awards recognized three outstanding undergraduate thesis authors as well as one graduate student and nine undergraduate student researchers, all exhibiting exemplary scholarly research methods and communication at University Park campus presentations this spring.