Kutztown UNivERSITY

Kutztown University Marching Unit (KUMU) has been selected as one of 17 bands to appear in the 2015 Philadelphia Thanksgiving Day Parade beginning at 8:30 a.m., Thursday, Nov. 26. With 150 members, KUMU is one of two bands from Pennsylvania and the only collegiate band in the parade. Now in its 96th year, the Philadelphia Thanksgiving Day Parade is the oldest Thanksgiving parade in the nation. The 1.4-mile parade route ends at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Students from The Press area include the following:

Northampton: Shea Killeen, Megan Reed and Rachel Shubert

Founded in 1866, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania (KU) is a member of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education located on 289 acres in East Penn Valley, Berks County. KU students select from more than 100 areas of study within four colleges in a diverse liberal arts academic environment. For more information, visit kutztown.edu.

Wilkes Univ.

Wilkes University awarded 329 doctoral, master’s and bachelor’s degrees to students graduating after the completion of the summer 2015 semester.

Students from The Press area include the following:

Northampton: Christa Hein, Daniel Kotran and Mandy Sommer, master of science in education

Whitehall: Meghan Lloyd and Kristin Schlotter, master of science in education

Wilkes University is an independent institution of higher education dedicated to academic and intellectual excellence through mentoring in the liberal arts, sciences and professional programs. Founded in 1933, the university is on a mission to create one of the great small universities, offering all of the programs, activities and opportunities of a large, research university in the intimate, caring and mentoring environment of a small, liberal arts college, at a cost that is increasingly competitive with public universities. In addition to 39 undergraduate majors, Wilkes University offers the doctor of nursing practice, doctor of education and doctor of pharmacy degrees and more than a dozen master’s degree programs, including the master of business administration and master of fine arts in creative writing.

Penn state univERSITY

Students from The Press area were named to the dean’s list at Penn State University for the summer term. They are:

Catasauqua: Mouna Alquirih

Northampton: Rachel Pavlacka

Whitehall: Crystal M. Hadeed and Khadija Salim

Penn State is a multi-campus public research university that educates students from Pennsylvania, the nation and the world and improves the well-being and health of individuals and communities through integrated programs of teaching, research and service. Its instructional mission includes undergraduate, graduate, professional and continuing education offered through both resident instruction and online delivery.