Gilpin Receives President's Award

University Park, Pa. – Clemmie E. Gilpin, assistant professor of community studies and Afro-American studies, Penn State Harrisburg, is the 2003 recipient of the PresidentÕs Award for Engagement with Students.

            The award is given to a full-time member of the faculty who goes beyond their responsibilities to engage and encourage students in learning, demonstrating deep caring and involvement with student's learning.

            Gilpin receives this award for his work as an outstanding academic advisor and student advocate and for his selflessness in assisting students.  He helps students organize charity events, attends nearly every student activity on campus. He recruits students for the college, advises and mentors them while they are in school and sustains an active correspondence after they graduate.  He is the advisor to numerous student clubs and a friend to members of the Student Government.

            He has won the Penn State Harrisburg Student Government Association's Faculty Advisor of the Year Award five times, the Provost's Community Service Award and the Faculty Senate Outstanding Service Award.  He is the founder of the Penn State Harrisburg Model United Nations Program, a major outreach program for high school students for the past 30 years.

            Gilpin received his B.A. in history from Virginia State College in 1966, his M.A. from Ohio University in 1970 in Foreign Affairs and his Ph.D. from Penn State in 1988 in Community Systems.

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Contact:  Andrea Messer at 814-865-9481 or aem1@psu.edu