Are you in your 30’s, 40’s or 50’s. The SU Foundation is hosting a free, informative financial planning seminar for you!
Homecoming Weekend | Saturday, October 20, 2018 | 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM
Courtyard by Marriott – 503 Newburg Road, Shippensburg PA
Sessions include: How to Define your Financial Goals and
Actually Accomplish Them and How to Take Care of Your Children and
the Aging Generation. Presentations by Ship Alum who are experts in their fields.
The SU Foundation’s Celebration of the Spirit of Generosity Scholarship Dinner has been rescheduled for Wednesday, April 11. If you sent an RSVP for the March 20 dinner, please RSVP for the April 11 dinner as well.
The Shippensburg University Foundation will open at 10am today, April 2, 2018
The SU Foundation’s 2016-2017 Annual Report is now availabable online. Please take a moment to review the report. We’re sharing just a few of the many stories of how your gifts to SU Foundation benefit students, faculty, and programs at Shippensburg University. Thank you for your continued generousity. View the Report
Today, November 28, is #GivingTuesday. Please take this opportunity to show your support by visiting our crowdfunding website and making a gift to support current and future students. While you’re there check out the student projects that need critical funding. Your gift matters.
SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. — Shippensburg University student and mathematics major Tristan Phillips recently received a Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation Scholarship.
Phillips, a sophomore in the honors program, is the university’s first Goldwater recipient.
The federally endowed scholarship program honors Sen. Barry Goldwater, and was designed to foster and encourage outstanding students to pursue careers in the fields of mathematics, the natural sciences and engineering.
Goldwater scholars are selected based on academic merit and are nominated by campus representatives from 2,000 colleges and universities nationwide. Phillips was one of 240 sophomore and junior scholars selected.
He credited his mentor, Lenny Jones, professor of mathematics; the university’s Goldwater faculty representative, John Richardson, professor of chemistry; and Kim Klein, director of the SU honors program, for assisting him with his successful application.
Klein also recognized the research opportunities provided by Shippensburg University and its honors program as key components in preparing students to successfully compete for major scholarships.
Phillips is a member of SU’s Chess Club, and a volunteer assistant for the cross-country and track-and-field teams. He hopes to become a mathematics researcher and professor.
The Board of Governors of Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education selected Laurie A. Carter to be the next president of Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, effective Aug. 7.
Carter is executive vice president and university counsel for Eastern Kentucky University, a regional, public university enrolling more than 16,000 students in Richmond, Ky. She previously served as vice president for arts education at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center and vice president and general counsel of The Juilliard School. She is a graduate of what was then Clarion State College, now Clarion University of Pennsylvania.
As executive vice president at Eastern Kentucky, Carter serves on the president’s cabinet and assumes responsibility for the university in the president’s absence. She provides leadership for 33 departments, including the University Counsel’s Office and the Division of Student Success, overseeing a budget of more than $71 million. She created the Student Success Center and initiated a program for first generation college students at EKU.
In addition to the Bachelor of Science in communications degree she earned from Clarion, Carter also has a Master of Arts degree in communications from William Paterson College and a Doctor of Law degree from Rutgers School of Law-Newark.
Prior to her initial appointment as executive vice president for student success and university counsel at Eastern Kentucky, Carter spent about a year as vice president for arts education at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, where she was responsible for providing strategic leadership, external relations and administrative management of the third largest arts education program in the United States. Previously, she held various positions over almost 25 years at The Juilliard School, considered the nation’s premiere performing arts college.
Carter began her tenure at Juilliard as director of student affairs, a position she held for five years before being named assistant dean for student relations and legal adviser. She also served as associate vice president and vice president for legal and student affairs and was founding executive director of jazz studies at the prestigious performing arts school. She created, implemented and supervised diversity initiatives, resulting in a 10 percent increase in under-represented students and a doubling of under-represented faculty. She created and implemented jazz studies at Juilliard, leading the successful effort to have the program accredited. She also led the planning and design of a $200 million renovation project at the school.
Carter has taught at Eastern Kentucky, Juilliard and Seton Hall University. She also was director of residence life at Fairleigh Dickinson University and a residence hall director at William Paterson. She is a member of the Kentucky and New York State bar associations; the National Association of College and University Attorneys; and the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators. She also is a board member of YMCA-Richmond and LexArts.
Thank you Mr. Gindlesberger for the heartfelt comments below about the Shippensburg University Foundation’s most recent Scholarship Dinner and the talented and deserving SU students who receive our scholarships!
Scholarships truly make a difference for Shippensburg Univeristy students. Alumni and friends, if you’ve ever considered establishing a scholarship for the benefit of SU Students, there is no better time than today. There are many ways to fund a scholarship – call the SU Foundation at 717-477-1377 and we can help you find a way that works best for you.
I went to dinner the other night.
I go to a lot of dinners. But this one was particularly special.
It was at Shippensburg University, and it was a scholarship dinner. In the room were two groups of people. First there were those students who had been awarded scholarships to assist them with the finances necessary to attend the university. And then there were those generous heroes who had donated the money to underwrite the scholarships.
My wife, Maxine, and I sat at a table with six students. Actually seated with us were five extraordinary students and an empty chair. The empty chair was for a student who we understood was working on an assignment and could not afford the time away from the project.
After an invocation, we began talking together. What an eye opener. It turns out that the students were pursuing studies in high achievement areas.
The first student was taking advanced coursework in management information systems. This student was preparing for a career in organizing the information needs of a future employer’s organization. He was building a framework on which to make well-considered operational, tactical, and strategic decisions. He was hoping someday to design and implement procedures, processes, and routines that would provide detailed analytical reports through modern, computerized systems.
The second was a day trader. He was a finance major at the John L. Grove College of Business within Shippensburg University. His course of study had led him to the Brad E. Hollinger Stock Trading Room and its Bloomberg Terminal. This is a Wall Street trading platform used by investment bankers and equity traders. Not only had this fellow mastered the course work, but he was actually taking the dollars he was making in a part-time job and investing them smartly, providing him an additional income stream to help pay for his education.
Then there was the young woman who was a biology major and aiming to be a doctor and cardiologist. There was no mistake in her seriousness about that career. It is what she wanted, and no one was about to stand in her way. She had already applied to the best medical schools, been accepted and was preparing her way following college graduation.
The fourth student was studying to be a land planner. He was considering obtaining a master’s degree and eventual advanced licensure. I asked him what he expected to accomplish as a land planner. He hoped that his work would lead to better urban environments in which people could live and work.
And the fifth student was devoted to becoming a social studies teacher. He wanted to teach high school students about government, geography, history, economics, civic ideals and current events. He was aware of the humdrum of lesson plans, assigning and grading homework, and creating and leading district determined classroom activities. Yet he felt that he could endow high schoolers with a deeper appreciation of our history, economic system and way of government. He expressed his concern for how little young people sometimes know today, and how important it is for them to know who we are as Americans, the relevance of our constitution, and how to strengthen the safeguards to preserving our way of life.
These young adults blew me away.
Then the program began.
First were introductions. Then polite applause. Short welcoming speeches. And more polite applause. More speeches. My wife’s elbow in my rib cage to keep me awake. And finally each of three students walked to the podium to express gratitude for the scholarships they had received. I wish everyone could have heard what these three college students said.
They had each overcome hurdles, to get where they were. One had to carry the weight of her family when no one else could. Another was a chemistry major and looking to make discoveries that could benefit humanity. A third was a person of color who had overcome adversity that would have swallowed and destroyed a lesser person. The self-confidence and drive for achievement and excellence that these students exuded brought participants to their feet.
We all know that charities need financial support from folks like you. Whether it be the animal shelter, BOPIC (Building Our Pride in Chambersburg – Jack Jones, Executive Director), the Coyle Free Library, Women in Need, the American Red Cross or your local church. They all need your support.
Yet the scholarship programs at Shippensburg University, Wilson College, Penn State Mont Alto or at your own alma mater are something that you should carefully consider. There is no substitute for offering young people the opportunity to gain an education and the capacity to bring positive change to our world.
It is not the scholarship program that benefits. It is the education of a real life and deserving human being that your money supports. Your $100, $1,000, $10,000, $100,000 or more to a college or university can make the difference between young people being able to afford an education or not. Between having dedicated teachers in our schools or not. Between your having someday a doctor on which your life may depend or not.
Please give until it hurts. It is your time and talents that make all of the difference.
Bill Gindlesperger is a lifelong central Pennsylvanian, a Trustee at Shippensburg University and the founder and Chairman of eLynxx Solutions, a provider of print buyer’s software for managing direct mail, marketing and print. He can be reached at Bill.Gindlesperger@eLynxx.com
This year’s Financial & Estate Planning Seminar titled, “Mid-Year Check-Up: Update and potential changes to healthcare, taxes and estate planning” will be held Friday, June 2 at the Conference Center at Shippensburg University.
The Keynote speaker, Ryotaro Tashiro, Economics and Public Outreach Associate
in the Research Department Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, will be giving on presentation on taking the pulse on the changes and potential changes that can impact healthcare policies, retirement savings, social security, and taxes.
The registration deadline is May 25, 2017.
On February 9, the SU Foundation and Shippensburg University celebrated the dedication of the new Charles H. Diller Jr. Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership and Innovation. The Center is the result of a gift made by Mr. Charles H. Jr. and Mrs. Jane E. Diller to Charting the Course, Lighting the Way, the Campaign for Shippensburg University. The Center complements the University’s newly established entrepreneurship major and minor and provides additional funding for student competitions, speakers, entrepreneurship mentors, student organizations, seminars, conferences, and other opportunities.
Accompanying the university’s newly established entrepreneurship major and minor, the Charles H. Diller Jr. Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership and Innovation joins several other unique programs in the Grove College of Business.
“As part of a unique entrepreneurial eco-system, it joins forces with the Small Business Development Center and the Brad E. Hollinger Stock Trading Room, offering hands-on learning to complement students’ academic programs,” said Dr. Barbara Lyman, interim president of Shippensburg University.
The center is the result of a gift made by Charles H. Jr. and Jane E. Diller to the Shippensburg University Foundation’s comprehensive campaign, Charting the Course, Lighting the Way, the Campaign for Shippensburg University.
Charles Diller Jr., retired executive vice president from JLG Industries and member of the Grove College of Business Advisory Board, was drawn to supporting the center because of the opportunity it provides students.
“It is very relevant for today’s young adults, in whatever profession they choose, to learn to cope with risk, spot opportunities and have the ability to be innovative. That is why I chose to endow this center as my contribution to the recent campaign,” said Diller.
According to Dr. John Kooti, dean of the John L. Grove College of Business, the creation of the center supports a hallmark of the college in that it prepares students both academically and professionally. “The Charles H. Diller Jr. Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership and Innovation contributes to this distinction by affording business and non-business students the opportunities to be creative and entrepreneurial.”
What starts as an idea evolves into reality as students work through a research process, business plan development and vetting of their idea by a leadership advisory council. Students then have an option to pitch their idea to a group of venture capitalists who might have interest in funding their plan.
The center also provides students and local entrepreneurs with access to high-quality speakers and seminars. During Global Entrepreneurship Week last November, the center hosted its first speaker, Brad Hollinger ’76, who founded Vibra Healthcare and is co-owner of the Williams Martini Formula Racing Team.
While the center resides in the Grove College of Business, the opportunities it provides are open to students from all disciplines who have dreams of becoming young entrepreneurs.
“We look forward to seeing a future of successful student entrepreneurs who can state that it all started because of the knowledge, skills, networking opportunities and support they received through the Charles H. Diller Jr. Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership and Innovation,” said John Clinton, president and CEO of the SU Foundation.
