Program Success University Police Chief Peter Anders held an active shooter training session to provide senior education majors with emergency response tactics to use in the classroom. More than 200 student teachers attended the interactive training prior to their field experience. Millersville and Clarion Universities are the first PASSHE schools to offer the ALICE (Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter and Evacuate) training, on which Anders’ safety session was based.
The University’s Honors College hosted the PASSHE Honors Student Development Conference in Harrisburg. Nearly 75 honors students from across the State System, including 12 students from Millersville, participated in the day of
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networking, advocacy and panel discussions devoted to “best practices” in academic, social and community engagement. Millersville sophomore Emily C. Neideigh chaired the planning committee that worked with peers from other campuses to define issues of common concern. The Nonprofit Resource Network (NRN) continues to build its customized services market, providing planning, research and training services for individual nonprofit organizations. The NRN secured 11 new service contracts in 2012–13 and provided its ninth offering of the Nonprofit Management Certificate Program, enrolling 80 participants. For the first time ever, parts of this program leveraged the University’s Desire2Learn online platform to offer the training in a blended format.
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