Still Life

With four guide ropes attached to it, the east-side clock face is raised into position. While it didn't seem that windy on the ground on Saturday, Jan. 28, winds higher up were strong, requiring extra guidance to bring the clock face safely to the Old Main bell tower.

Old Main clock faces installed

Ben White of New Vibrations Audio and Video works on a ledge of the Old Main bell tower, to remove the speakers from the old chime system. The company installed a new carillon system today (Jan. 27) that will play a digital recording made of the original Old Main bell that now sits adjacent to Old Main and other bells of comparable sizes.

New carillon, restored clocks being installed

The funeral procession for Joe Paterno made its way past Beaver Stadium and down Porter Road as crowds applauded on Jan. 25. Thousands lined the procession route through the University Park campus and downtown State College to bid a last farewell to Joe Paterno.

Joe Paterno's funeral procession

Coach Joe Paterno was on the field for the first half of the Nittany Lions' football game. Penn State beat the Iowa Hawkeyes 13-3 on Oct. 8, 2011, in front of an enthusiastic crowd at Beaver Stadium.

Joe Paterno through the years

Katie Knobloch and Andrew Adamietz, members of the a capella group Blue in the Face, shared a candle at the vigil held Sunday, Jan. 22, to mourn the death of Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, who passed away earlier in the day. Several thousand members of the Penn State and State College community came out to the Old Main lawn on Penn State's University Park campus for the vigil.

Thousands mourn Paterno's passing

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Online criminal justice program receives pioneering certification

Thursday, March 26, 2009
University Park, Pa. —The Penn State World Campus online criminal justice program, with its academic home in the Criminal Justice Program at Penn State Harrisburg, became the first online program in the country to be awarded certification through the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS). 

Barbara Sims, professor of criminal justice and criminal justice chair at Penn State Harrisburg, said the certification reinforces the reputation that the online program is earning for quality criminal justice instruction.
 
"The ACJS Executive Board, along with the Academic Review Committee, worked diligently to ensure that criminal justice programs are held to as high a standard as are programs in other disciplines," said Sims. "Achieving the certification means that faculty, students and staff can be assured that they are teaching, learning and working within an environment that is committed to high quality programming."

The World Campus criminal justice degree program is a 120-credit program designed to provide students with the theoretical and practical knowledge of crime control, as well as the skills necessary to succeed in criminal justice and related careers.The format of the online degree offers students the convenience and flexibility of studying around personal and professional schedules.
 
The ACJS, an international association established in 1963 to foster professional and scholarly activities in the field of criminal justice, sets certification that calls for standards including quality faculty, sufficient resources for faculty and students, an appropriate curriculum, the use of evidence-based outcomes for assessing student learning and the ethical treatment of faculty and students.
 
For more details, visit http://www.worldcampus.psu.edu/ACJS online.
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