East Stroudsburg University

Two East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania students were selected to attend a program which seeks to help prepare and empower young women to be future leaders in the political process. The students attended the National Education for Women's (NEW) Leadership Pennsylvania institute at the Pennsylvania Center for Women and Politics at Chatham University in Pittsburgh from June 3-7. The NEW Leadership program is a six-day, concentrated curriculum for female students attending colleges and universities throughout Pennsylvania. Participants learned about networking, public speaking, the need for women's leadership in the political process and participated in skills-building workshops.

On Friday, May 10 six students graduated from East Stroudsburg University with a master's degree in athletic training. All six students successfully achieved 100% first-time pass rate on the Board Certification Athletic Training examination. ESU's athletic training - professional practice program, accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education (CAATE), has a three-year aggregate "first-time pass rate" of 100%. CAATE requires at least 70% 3-year pass rate.

To help first-generation college students, ESU launched its "1st Gen" project in September. Faculty and staff who were in the first generation of their families to go to college will be invited to wear buttons that say "1ST GEN" to identify themselves on campus for current first-generation students who have questions or just want to talk to someone who was once in their shoes. As of Fall 2016, first-generation college students made up 28.5 percent of ESU undergraduates.