E-mail to all Penn State Engineering Department employees: On February 28, 2013, the new online training program “Reporting Child Abuse” will be available to all Penn State employees at psuohrlearning.skillport.com. The training is not designed to address the entire issue of child abuse, but it has been specifically designed for Penn State employees and Authorized […]
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How a 10 cent increase in the minimum wage put me on page one of the Centre Daily Times
Note: Sunday, September 9, 2012, State College, PA 5:57 PM, EDT. My friend Philip Moery is fond of quoting William Faulkner’s observation, “The past is never dead. It’s not even the past.” This observation became trenchant yesterday when I received a post from Scott W., who, like me, is a member of a lively discussion group […]
Request that Penn State revise its instructions to its law firm regarding ADA issues
Open letter to Penn State President Rodney Erickson Dear President Erickson: I am reliably informed that under the administration of former President Graham Spanier, it was Penn State policy not to resolve expeditiously Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) complaints raised by disabled students and other disabled members of the Penn State community. Instead the University’s […]
Pictorial essay on how Penn State’s “football culture” adversely affects disabled students
[Readers: Sadly, in July 2012 nothing has changed to guarantee the safety of disabled students regarding the hazards described in this photo essay written in 2006. See note at the end of the essay for more information on how this essay came to be written and why nothing has yet been done to secure the […]
The answer to A.J. Liebling’s remark: “Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.”
Some books are to be tasted: WorkPress overview by Jessica and Matt Beck, March 26, 2012 By Joel Solkoff (State College, PA United States) http://www.amazon.com/review/R334DOKHWPN31W One of my father’s favorite quotations was “Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to […]
Celebration of the Use of Virtual Reality to Improve Housing for the Elderly and Disabled
University Park, PA. On Tuesday, May 3, 2011 at 10a.m. Penn State’s Department of Architectural Engineering and its Smart Spaces Center for Adaptive Aging in Community celebrated progress made in a coordinated effort to reduce the cost of housing for Pennsylvania’s elderly and disabled residents today and in the future. The celebration took place at […]
Rep. Glenn (GT) Thompson representing Penn State plus
Rep. Glenn Thompson discusses his nearly 30-year long career as a manager of rehabilitation therapists, as a rehabilitation therapist, and as a health worker, which included changing bed pans at Centre Crest, an assistive living facility near State College, PA. You can listen to this interview below. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6JAIMWh-_zIeFMyVUtXbjZWUkU/view?pref=2&pli=1 I interviewed the Congressman on February 6, […]
Virtual reality cuts costs and increases satisfaction
Put on your 3-D glasses The following appeared in HME News, the publication for the home medical industry, on July 26, 2011. This year and last, I asked the residents of Addison Court, the low-income apartment for disabled and elderly in State College where I live, to attend a demonstration at the Immersive Construction Lab, described […]