News and Highlights

LaTanya McQueen’s 'And It Begins Like This' will be the Common Read for the 2019-20 academic year.

Penn State Altoona's annual African American Read-In will take place Feb. 10–11.

The annual African American Read-In at Penn State Altoona will take place Feb. 10–11, 2019. This year’s theme is Afrofuturism.

Penn State Altoona will present a cultural diversity panel titled "Learning How the Deaf 'See the World Through Deaf Eyes' and Their Successes," Wednesday, November 7, 2018, from 6:00 - 8:30 p.m. in the Devorris Downtown Center, 1431 12th Ave., Altoona, PA 16601.

Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, associate professor of English, established the non-profit organization Young Scholars of Liberia to engage youth, particularly young girls, in Liberia in literacy, literature and writing as a means of inspiring excellence.