Rep. Matt Cartwright (D-17th District) hosted a roundtable discussion April 25 with presidents and students from 11 area colleges on the issues of science, technology, engineering and mathematics education, veteran’s educational opportunities, student loans and President Obama’s new proposed rating system for colleges. The presidents, students and several other officials from East Stroudsburg University, Keystone College, King’s College, Luzerne County Community College, Misericordia University, Moravian College, Northampton Community College, Penn State University Schuylkill, Commonwealth Medical College, the University of Scranton and Wilkes were present. Wilkes President Patrick Leahy and Student Government President Ian Foley attended from Wilkes. It took place from 9-11 a.m. in the Miller Room on the second floor of the SUB.
Wilkes hosts Cartwright roundtable with college reps
April 25, 2014
Student Government President Ian Foley and Wilkes President Patrick Leahy attended a gathering featuring local college reps and Rep. Matt Cartwright.
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Christine Lee, Life Editor
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Christine Lee is a senior communication studies major with concentrations in journalism, broadcast media and rhetoric and minors in history and political science. She brings three and a half years of experience writing for The Beacon, having served as Life Editor from January 2011 (spring semester of her freshman year) to April 2012 (her sophomore year) and a staff writer from September-December 2010 (fall of her freshman year). She became news editor in fall 2012 and as a graduating senior, she serves as a writer and mentor to incoming Beacon staff.
Christine carries a passion for all things news and current events and looks forward to covering major events on campus. She fully believes in respect for each person being interviewed, as she believes they have a story to tell her and she is recording it in print or on-air. A Dean's List student, she hails from the small town of Bloomsbury, N.J., and in addition to her role as News editor, she is an on-air reporter for "Wilkes Now," the student-produced television program filmed on campus, sings with the University Chorus and a local church choir, is an E-mentor for first-year students and is involved in a number of other little activities on campus. She is a student member of the Society of Professional Journalists-Wilkes Chapter.